4 Stocks Pushing The Transportation Industry Lower

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All three major indices are trading down today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading down 27 points (-0.2%) at 12,904 as of Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,218 issues advancing vs. 1,656 declining with 135 unchanged.

The Transportation industry currently sits down 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.2%. A company within the industry that fell today was Pacific Airport Group (PAC), up 2.9%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 4 stocks pushing the industry lower today:

4. Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is one of the companies pushing the Transportation industry lower today. As of noon trading, Canadian Pacific Railway is down $1.42 (-1.5%) to $90.85 on light volume Thus far, 117,436 shares of Canadian Pacific Railway exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 485,800 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $90.81-$92.41 after having opened the day at $92.40 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $92.27.

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a transcontinental railway providing freight transportation services, logistics solutions, and supply chain expertise in Canada and the United States. Canadian Pacific Railway has a market cap of $16.2 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 22.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 38.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Canadian Pacific Railway a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 14 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Canadian Pacific Railway as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. 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 Canadian Pacific Railway Ratings Report now.

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