Danaher Corporation (DHR): Today's Featured Industrial Winner

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Danaher Corporation (DHR) pushed the Industrial industry higher today making it today's featured industrial winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.1%. By the end of trading, Danaher Corporation rose 59 cents (1.1%) to $55.06 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.5 million shares of Danaher Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $53.99-$55.13 after having opened the day at $54.46 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $54.47. Other companies within the Industrial industry that increased today were: Wowjoint Holdings (BWOW), up 13.2%, Metalico (MEA), up 7.4%, Joy Global (JOY), up 6.7%, and Bonso Electronics International (BNSO), up 6%.

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Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services primarily in North America, Europe, and Asia/Australia. Danaher Corporation has a market cap of $36.74 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17, above the average industrial industry P/E ratio of 16.3 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 15.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Danaher Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and one rates it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Danaher Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, growth in earnings per share, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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