Pitney Bowes Inc (PBI): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Laggard

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Pitney Bowes (PBI) pushed the Consumer Durables industry lower today making it today's featured Consumer Durables laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Pitney Bowes fell 18 cents (-1.3%) to $13.60 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3.6 million shares of Pitney Bowes exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $13.50-$13.87 after having opened the day at $13.82 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $13.78. Other companies within the Consumer Durables industry that declined today were: Cybex International (CYBI), down 4.3%, Appliance Recycling Centers (ARCI), down 4.2%, Furniture Brands International (FBN), down 3.5%, and Mad Catz Interactive (MCZ), down 3.3%.

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Pitney Bowes Inc. provides software, hardware, and services to enable physical and digital communications. It also offers a suite of equipment, supplies, software, services, and solutions for managing and integrating physical and digital communication channels. Pitney Bowes has a market cap of $2.77 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 6.9, above the average consumer durables industry P/E ratio of four and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 25.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there is one analyst that rates Pitney Bowes a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Pitney Bowes as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including generally higher debt management risk, a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself and unimpressive growth in net income.

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