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 48 points (0.4%) at 12,859 as of Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, 11:50 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,662 issues advancing vs. 1,212 declining with 143 unchanged.

The Specialty Retail industry currently sits up 0.1% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.6%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include Ferrellgas Partners (FGP), down 3.7%, and AutoNation (AN), down 0.7%. Top gainers within the industry include Office Depot (ODP), up 2.9%, Netflix (NFLX), up 2.0% and CarMax (KMX), up 0.9%.

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

3. Group 1 Automotive (GPI) is one of the companies pushing the Specialty Retail industry lower today. As of noon trading, Group 1 Automotive is down $1.50 (-2.5%) to $59.02 on average volume Thus far, 146,409 shares of Group 1 Automotive exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 252,300 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $58.60-$60.48 after having opened the day at $60.48 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $60.52.

Group 1 Automotive, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and sale of automotive products and services. It sells new and used cars, light trucks, and vehicle parts. Group 1 Automotive has a market cap of $1.4 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.3, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 16.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate Group 1 Automotive a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Group 1 Automotive as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and attractive valuation levels. 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 Group 1 Automotive Ratings Report now.

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