3 Stocks Pushing The Retail Industry Lower

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Two out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading down 10 points (-0.1%) at 13,082 as of Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, 1:34 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,351 issues advancing vs. 1,574 declining with 129 unchanged.

The Retail industry currently sits up 0.6% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.1%. A company within the industry that increased today was Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD), up 2.3%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry lower today:

3. IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) is one of the companies pushing the Retail industry lower today. As of noon trading, IAC/InterActiveCorp is down $1.68 (-3.6%) to $45.53 on average volume Thus far, 1.1 million shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 879,200 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $45.41-$47.63 after having opened the day at $47.00 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $47.21.

IAC/InterActiveCorp engages in the Internet business in the United States and internationally. IAC/InterActiveCorp has a market cap of $4.0 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate IAC/InterActiveCorp a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates IAC/InterActiveCorp 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, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. Get the full IAC/InterActiveCorp Ratings Report now.

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