Coinstar Inc. (CSTR): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Winner

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Coinstar (CSTR) pushed the Specialty Retail industry higher today making it today's featured specialty retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.2%. By the end of trading, Coinstar rose $1.09 (2.5%) to $44.33 on light volume. Throughout the day, 796,913 shares of Coinstar exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.4 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $42.81-$44.74 after having opened the day at $43.03 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $43.24. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that increased today were: Barnes & Noble (BKS), up 6.1%, iParty Corporation (IPT), up 4.8%, Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), up 2.8%, and Francescas Holdings (FRAN), up 2.6%.

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Coinstar, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides automated retail solutions primarily in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Coinstar has a market cap of $1.37 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 8.9, equal to the average specialty retail industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 4% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are eight analysts that rate Coinstar a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Coinstar as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, compelling growth in net income, reasonable valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

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