Best Buy Co Inc (BBY): Today's Featured Retail Laggard

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Best Buy (BBY) pushed the Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Retail laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Best Buy fell 21 cents (-1.2%) to $16.99 on light volume. Throughout the day, 4.4 million shares of Best Buy exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9.6 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $16.94-$17.44 after having opened the day at $17.20 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $17.20. Other companies within the Retail industry that declined today were: Gordman's Stores (GMAN), down 23%, Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH), down 5%, ALCO Stores (ALCS), down 4%, and Gaiam Inc. Class A (GAIA), down 3.7%.

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Best Buy Co., Inc. operates as a retailer of consumer electronics, computing and mobile phone products, entertainment products, appliances, and related services primarily in the United States, Europe, Canada, and China. Best Buy has a market cap of $5.92 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are down 26.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there is one analyst that rates Best Buy a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and 17 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Best Buy as a hold. The company's strongest point has been its a solid financial position based on a variety of debt and liquidity measures that we have looked at. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.

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On the positive front, Body Central (BODY), up 9.6%, Bon-Ton Stores (BONT), up 8.8%, Conn's (CONN), up 7.1%, and Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), up 5%, were all gainers within the retail industry with Macy's (M) being today's featured retail industry leader.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the retail industry could consider SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT) while those bearish on the retail industry could consider ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods (SZK).

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