Tractor Supply (TSCO): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Laggard

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Tractor Supply (TSCO) pushed the Specialty Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Specialty Retail laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.8%. By the end of trading, Tractor Supply fell $5.38 (-6.1%) to $83.39 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 2.8 million shares of Tractor Supply exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 577,200 shares. The stock ranged in price between $82.39-$86.40 after having opened the day at $86 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $88.77. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that declined today were: Lentuo International (LAS), down 5.7%, iParty Corporation (IPT), down 3.5%, Hastings Entertainment (HAST), down 3.4%, and Vitamin Shoppe (VSI), down 2.5%.

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Tractor Supply Company operates retail farm and ranch stores in the United States. Tractor Supply has a market cap of $6.31 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 24.6, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 27.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Tractor Supply a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tractor Supply as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.

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