SanDisk Corp (SNDK): Today's Featured Electronics Winner

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SanDisk (SNDK) pushed the Electronics industry higher today making it today's featured electronics winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.9%. By the end of trading, SanDisk rose 63 cents (1.6%) to $39.47 on average volume. Throughout the day, four million shares of SanDisk exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.9 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $38.67-$39.73 after having opened the day at $38.73 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $38.84. Other companies within the Electronics industry that increased today were: Memsic (MEMS), up 71.8%, Spire Corporation (SPIR), up 22.5%, Oclaro (OCLR), up 12.2%, and GigOptix (GIG), up 11.5%.

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Sandisk Corporation designs, develops, and manufactures NAND flash memory storage solutions that are used in various consumer electronics products. SanDisk has a market cap of $9.5 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 20.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 16 analysts that rate SanDisk a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates SanDisk as a buy. Among the primary strengths of the company is its solid financial position based on a variety of debt and liquidity measures that we have evaluated. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

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