Huntsman Corporation (HUN): Today's Featured Chemicals Winner

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Huntsman Corporation (HUN) pushed the Chemicals industry higher today making it today's featured chemicals winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Huntsman Corporation rose 15 cents (1%) to $14.82 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2.5 million shares of Huntsman Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.1 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $14.51-$14.84 after having opened the day at $14.69 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $14.67. Other companies within the Chemicals industry that increased today were: Georgia Gulf (GGC), up 3.5%, Ceres (CERE), up 3.3%, Pure Bioscience (PURE), up 3.1%, and Oil-Dri Corporation of America (ODC), up 2.5%.

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Huntsman Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of differentiated organic and inorganic chemical products worldwide. Huntsman Corporation has a market cap of $3.31 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.3, above the average chemicals industry P/E ratio of 9.1 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 35.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Huntsman Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Huntsman Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

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On the negative front, Ikonics Corporation (IKNX), down 6.5%, Lizhan Environmental (LZEN), down 6.2%, Altair Nanotechnologies (ALTI), down 3.8%, and Pacific Ethanol (PEIX), down 3.8%, were all laggards within the chemicals industry with FMC Corporation (FMC) being today's chemicals industry laggard.

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