Tenaris SA Closes Up at $38.75

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Tenaris (TS) gained 37 cents (0.96%) to close at $38.75. Throughout the day, 1.48 million shares of Tenaris exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $38.40 and $38.84.

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Tenaris S.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of steel pipe products. Tenaris has a market cap of $23.5 billion and is part of the metals & mining industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 35.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 6.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Tenaris a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tenaris as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

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