Tyco International Ltd (TYC): Today's Featured Diversified Services Laggard

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Tyco International (TYC) pushed the Diversified Services industry lower today making it today's featured Diversified Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Tyco International fell 47 cents (-1.7%) to $27.90 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3.5 million shares of Tyco International exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.7 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $27.84-$28.52 after having opened the day at $28.40 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $28.37. Other companies within the Diversified Services industry that declined today were: Innovaro (INV), down 13%, WidePoint Corporation (WYY), down 12.2%, SmartPros (SPRO), down 10%, and Vantiv (VNTV), down 5.9%.

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Tyco International Ltd. operates as a fire protection and security company. The company provides security products and services, fire protection and detection products and services, valves and controls, and other industrial products. Tyco International has a market cap of $13.26 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are down 8.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate Tyco International a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tyco International as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself.

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On the positive front, CIBT Education Group (MBA), up 29.4%, Cambium Learning Group (ABCD), up 17.2%, China Distance Education Holdings (DL), up 15.1%, and ENGlobal Corporation (ENG), up 8.5%, were all gainers within the diversified services industry with Zillow (Z) being today's featured diversified services industry leader.

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