Tiffany & Co. (TIF): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Winner

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Tiffany (TIF) pushed the Specialty Retail industry higher today making it today's featured specialty retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Tiffany rose $4.21 (7.2%) to $62.71 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 9.4 million shares of Tiffany exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $61.62-$63.22 after having opened the day at $61.69 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $58.50. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that increased today were: Bluefly (BFLY), up 4.8%, XO Group (XOXO), up 3.9%, Blue Nile (NILE), up 3.4%, and Brown Shoe Company (BWS), up 3.4%.

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Tiffany & Co., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and retail of fine jewelry worldwide. Tiffany has a market cap of $7.39 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.1, equal to the average specialty retail industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 11.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Tiffany a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tiffany as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself and weak operating cash flow.

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