5 Stocks Pushing The Services Sector Lower

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All three major indices are trading down today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading down 89 points (-0.7%) at 12,919 as of Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 886 issues advancing vs. 2,023 declining with 120 unchanged.

The Services sector currently sits down 0.4% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.7%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Macy's (M), down 3.8%, Whole Foods Market (WFM), down 2.7%, Nordstrom (JWN), down 2.7%, Target (TGT), down 2.2% and LATAM Airlines Group S.A (LFL), down 1.9%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today:

5. Visa (V) is one of the companies pushing the Services sector lower today. As of noon trading, Visa is down $1.40 (-0.9%) to $146.72 on light volume Thus far, 1.0 million shares of Visa exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.0 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $146.42-$147.61 after having opened the day at $147.41 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $148.12.

Visa Inc., a payments technology company, engages in the operation of retail electronic payments network worldwide. It facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities. Visa has a market cap of $78.5 billion and is part of the diversified services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 46.4, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 45.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 23 analysts that rate Visa a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Visa as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity. Get the full Visa Ratings Report now.

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