5 Stocks Pushing The Materials & Construction Industry Lower

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One out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading down 17 points (-0.1%) at 12,949 as of Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,707 issues advancing vs. 1,183 declining with 148 unchanged.

The Materials & Construction industry currently sits up 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.0%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), down 3.5%, and NVR (NVR), down 1.2%. Top gainers within the industry include Apogee (APOG), up 5.0%, Texas Industries (TXI), up 2.6%, USG (USG), up 1.0% and Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI), up 0.7%.

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

5. Clean Harbors (CLH) is one of the companies pushing the Materials & Construction industry lower today. As of noon trading, Clean Harbors is down $1.44 (-2.5%) to $55.75 on average volume Thus far, 284,990 shares of Clean Harbors exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 554,100 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $55.33-$56.36 after having opened the day at $55.89 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $57.19.

Clean Harbors, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental, energy, and industrial services. Clean Harbors has a market cap of $3.1 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 29.0, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 9.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Clean Harbors a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Clean Harbors 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 somewhat weak growth in earnings per share. Get the full Clean Harbors Ratings Report now.

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