4 Stocks Pushing The Consumer Non-Durables Industry Lower

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Two out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 40 points (0.3%) at 12,582 as of Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, 11:59 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,549 issues advancing vs. 1,392 declining with 99 unchanged.

The Consumer Non-Durables industry currently sits down 0.1% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.1%.

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

4. Ball Corporation (BLL) is one of the companies pushing the Consumer Non-Durables industry lower today. As of noon trading, Ball Corporation is down $0.50 (-1.2%) to $42.74 on heavy volume Thus far, 553,312 shares of Ball Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 709,800 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $42.62-$43.31 after having opened the day at $42.75 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $43.24.

Ball Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, supplies metal packaging products for the beverage, food, personal care, and household products industries in the United States and internationally. Ball Corporation has a market cap of $6.6 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 20.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Ball Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Ball Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance, reasonable valuation levels 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 Ball Corporation Ratings Report now.

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