Dow Today: Walt Disney (DIS) Leads The Day Higher, Caterpillar (CAT) Lags

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) closed down 59.0 points (-0.5%) at 12,756. During the day, 662.2 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 589.5 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio closed at 972 issues advancing vs. 2,059 declining with 89 unchanged.

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The Dow component that led the way higher today was Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS), which sported a 51-cent gain (+1.1%) bringing the stock to $47.96. Volume for Walt Disney ended the day at 12.2 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 8.3 million shares.

Walt Disney has a market cap of $84.44 billion and is part of the services sector and media industry. Shares are up 25.5% year to date as of Monday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 1.3%.

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment company worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 15, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Walt Disney 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, revenue growth, notable return on equity and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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Holding the Dow back today was Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), which lagged the broader Dow index with a $1.92 decline (-2.3%) bringing the stock to $83.26. This single loss lowered the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 14.53 points or roughly accounting for 24.6% of the Dow's overall loss. Volume for Caterpillar ended the day at 7.6 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 7.3 million shares.

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Caterpillar has a market cap of $55.55 billion and is part of the conglomerates sector and conglomerates industry. Shares are down 6.2% year to date as of Monday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.4%.

Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 8.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Caterpillar as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. 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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