3 Stocks Pushing The Specialty Retail Industry Lower

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All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 146 points (1.1%) at 13,259 as of Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 2,070 issues advancing vs. 801 declining with 135 unchanged.

The Specialty Retail industry currently sits up 1.2% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.9%. A company within the industry that increased today was OfficeMax (OMX), up 10.6%.

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

3. AutoNation (AN) is one of the companies pushing the Specialty Retail industry lower today. As of noon trading, AutoNation is down $0.28 (-0.6%) to $43.22 on average volume Thus far, 221,832 shares of AutoNation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 562,000 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $43.13-$43.95 after having opened the day at $43.69 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $43.50.

AutoNation, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an automotive retailer in the United States. AutoNation has a market cap of $5.3 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.5, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 18.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates AutoNation a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates AutoNation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, revenue growth and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full AutoNation Ratings Report now.

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