Tiffany & Co. (TIF): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Winner

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Tiffany (TIF) pushed the Specialty Retail industry higher today making it today's featured specialty retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.8%. By the end of trading, Tiffany rose 65 cents (1%) to $63.22 on light volume. Throughout the day, 829,430 shares of Tiffany exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.9 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $62.39-$63.68 after having opened the day at $62.70 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $62.57. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that increased today were: Netflix (NFLX), up 13.9%, Barnes & Noble (BKS), up 13.4%, Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW), up 6.8%, and Titan Machinery (TITN), up 6.2%.

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Tiffany & Co., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and retail of fine jewelry worldwide. Tiffany has a market cap of $7.92 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.2, equal to the average specialty retail industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 5.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Tiffany a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tiffany as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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