Dow Today: Travelers Companies (TRV) Higher

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading up 87 points (+0.7%) at 13,341 as of Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012, 11:35 a.m. ET. During this time, 190.2 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 589 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 2,190 issues advancing vs. 697 declining with 125 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV), which is sporting a $1.30 gain (+2%) bringing the stock to $66.61. This single gain is lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 9.84 points or roughly accounting for 11.3% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for Travelers Companies currently sits at 1.4 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 2.3 million shares.

Travelers Companies has a market cap of $25.13 billion and is part of the financial sector and insurance industry. Shares are up 10.2% year to date as of Monday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.8%.

The Travelers Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, government units, associations, and individuals primarily in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.7, equal to the average insurance industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Travelers Companies as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

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