5 Stocks Pushing The Diversified Services Industry Higher

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Two out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 15 points (0.1%) at 12,980 as of Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,319 issues advancing vs. 1,553 declining with 162 unchanged.

The Diversified Services industry currently sits down 0.2% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.1%. Top gainers within the industry include Education Management Corporation (EDMC), up 8.7%, and SAIC (SAI), up 1.3%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include Net 1 Ueps Technologies (UEPS), down 56.6%, Verisk Analytics (VRSK), down 2.4%, Western Union Company (WU), down 0.8% and MasterCard Incorporated (MA), down 0.9%.

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

5. Textainer Group Holdings (TGH) is one of the companies pushing the Diversified Services industry higher today. As of noon trading, Textainer Group Holdings is up $0.92 (3.1%) to $30.69 on light volume Thus far, 82,160 shares of Textainer Group Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 336,700 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $29.65-$30.69 after having opened the day at $29.67 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $29.77.

Textainer Group Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the purchase, ownership, management, leasing, and resale of a fleet of marine cargo containers worldwide. Textainer Group Holdings has a market cap of $1.7 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.3, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 2.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Textainer Group Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Textainer Group Holdings as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, increase in net income, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. 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 Textainer Group Holdings Ratings Report now.

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