Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Winner

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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) pushed the Food & Beverage industry higher today making it today's featured food & beverage winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.3%. By the end of trading, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters rose $2.16 (8.9%) to $26.34 on average volume. Throughout the day, eight million shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of seven million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $24.24-$27.60 after having opened the day at $24.25 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $24.18. Other companies within the Food & Beverage industry that increased today were: Griffin Land & Nurseries (GRIF), up 10%, Inventure Foods (SNAK), up 8.1%, Synutra International (SYUT), up 6.4%, and Cott (COT), up 6%.

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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. engages in the specialty coffee and coffee maker business. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has a market cap of $3.79 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 45.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate Green Mountain Coffee Roasters a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Green Mountain Coffee Roasters as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the stock has had a generally disappointing performance in the past year.

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