Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances Inc. (ULTA): Today's Featured Diversified Services Winner

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Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances (ULTA) pushed the Diversified Services industry higher today making it today's featured diversified services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.8%. By the end of trading, Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances rose $2.70 (2.8%) to $98 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, two million shares of Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 720,900 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $91.85-$98.18 after having opened the day at $95 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $95.30. Other companies within the Diversified Services industry that increased today were: Cenveo (CVO), up 11.6%, China HGS Real Estate (HGSH), up 10.5%, Innotrac Corporation (INOC), up 8.6%, and Scientific Learning Corporation (SCIL), up 7.7%.

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Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. operates as a beauty retailer that provides prestige, mass, and salon products; and salon services in the United States. Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances has a market cap of $6.02 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 42.5, below the average diversified services industry P/E ratio of 42.7 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 46.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances 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, notable return on equity, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value.

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On the negative front, Bridgepoint Education (BPI), down 10.2%, China Yida (CNYD), down 9.1%, Document Security Systems (DSS), down 8.4%, and National American University Holdings (NAUH), down 5.5%, were all laggards within the diversified services industry with Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) being today's diversified services industry laggard.

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