3 Stocks Pushing The Industrial Industry Lower

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All three major indices are trading down today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading down 23 points (-0.2%) at 13,146 as of Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, 11:50 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,344 issues advancing vs. 1,517 declining with 152 unchanged.

The Industrial industry currently sits up 0.5% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.3%. A company within the industry that fell today was Nidec Corporation (NJ), up 0.7%. Top gainers within the industry include Makita (MKTAY), up 3.9%, Reliance Steel and Aluminum (RS), up 2.3%, CNH Global (CNH), up 1.2%, ABB (ABB), up 0.9% and Parker Hannifin Corporation (PH), up 0.8%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry lower today:

3. Pall Corporation (PLL) is one of the companies pushing the Industrial industry lower today. As of noon trading, Pall Corporation is down $0.84 (-1.4%) to $60.76 on light volume Thus far, 200,080 shares of Pall Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 756,600 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $60.75-$61.54 after having opened the day at $61.48 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $61.60.

Pall Corporation engages in manufacturing and marketing filtration, purification, and separation products and integrated systems solutions worldwide. Pall Corporation has a market cap of $6.8 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.1, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 7.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Pall Corporation a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Pall Corporation 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, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity. Get the full Pall Corporation Ratings Report now.

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