United Technologies Corp (UTX): Today's Featured Conglomerates Winner

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United Technologies (UTX) pushed the Conglomerates sector higher today making it today's featured conglomerates winner. The sector as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, United Technologies rose $1.11 (1.5%) to $76.95 on light volume. Throughout the day, three million shares of United Technologies exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $75.76-$77.19 after having opened the day at $76.17 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $75.84. Another company within the Conglomerates sector that increased today was Harbinger Group (HRG), up 6.1%.

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United Technologies Corporation provides technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. United Technologies has a market cap of $69.8 billion and is part of the conglomerates industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 3.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 15 analysts that rate United Technologies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates United Technologies as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, revenue growth and reasonable 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.

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