Hain Celestial Group Inc. (HAIN): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Laggard

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Hain Celestial Group (HAIN) pushed the Consumer Goods sector lower today making it today's featured Consumer Goods laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.8%. By the end of trading, Hain Celestial Group fell $1.80 (-2.9%) to $61.05 on average volume. Throughout the day, 903,756 shares of Hain Celestial Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 699,900 shares. The stock ranged in price between $60.48-$63.27 after having opened the day at $62.77 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $62.85. Other companies within the Consumer Goods sector that declined today were: ATC Venture Group (ATC), down 13.2%, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), down 8.8%, Standard Register Company (SR), down 6.8%, and Pilgrims Pride (PPC), down 6.7%.

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The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells natural and organic products. Hain Celestial Group has a market cap of $2.84 billion and is part of the food & beverage industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 30.7, below the average food & beverage industry P/E ratio of 36.3 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 71.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Hain Celestial Group a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Hain Celestial Group as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.

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On the positive front, House of Taylor Jewelry Incorporated (HOTJ), up 175%, Crumbs Bake Shop (CRMB), up 13.1%, China Shengda Packaging Group (CPGI), up 10.2%, and Forward Industries (FORD), up 9.6%, were all gainers within the consumer goods sector with Bunge (BG) being today's featured consumer goods sector leader.

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