Xerox Corporation (XRX): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Winner

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Xerox Corporation (XRX) pushed the Consumer Durables industry higher today making it today's featured consumer durables winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Xerox Corporation rose 19 cents (2.8%) to $6.98 on average volume. Throughout the day, 9.6 million shares of Xerox Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 10.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $6.80-$6.99 after having opened the day at $6.82 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $6.79. Other companies within the Consumer Durables industry that increased today were: Chromcraft Revington (CRC), up 5.6%, Select Comfort Corporation (SCSS), up 5.3%, Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET), up 5.1%, and Mattress Firm (MFRM), up 5%.

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Xerox Corporation provides business process and information technology (IT) outsourcing, and document management services worldwide. Xerox Corporation has a market cap of $8.67 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 14.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Xerox Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Xerox Corporation as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the stock has had a generally disappointing performance in the past year.

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On the negative front, Kewaunee Scientific (KEQU), down 6.5%, Pitney Bowes (PBI), down 5.2%, Stanley Furniture Company (STLY), down 4.3%, and Movado Group (MOV), down 3.2%, were all laggards within the consumer durables industry with Hasbro (HAS) being today's consumer durables industry laggard.

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