Pitney Bowes Inc (PBI): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Winner

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Pitney Bowes (PBI) pushed the Consumer Durables industry higher today making it today's featured consumer durables winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.2%. By the end of trading, Pitney Bowes rose 13 cents (1.1%) to $11.78 on average volume. Throughout the day, six million shares of Pitney Bowes exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.5 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $11.56-$11.83 after having opened the day at $11.73 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $11.65. Other companies within the Consumer Durables industry that increased today were: Appliance Recycling Centers (ARCI), up 6.2%, Chromcraft Revington (CRC), up 4%, Fossil (FOSL), up 2.6%, and WMS Industries (WMS), up 2.6%.

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Pitney Bowes Inc. provides software, hardware, and services to enable physical and digital communications. It also offers a suite of equipment, supplies, software, services, and solutions for managing and integrating physical and digital communication channels. Pitney Bowes has a market cap of $2.28 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 6.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 6.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there is one analyst that rates Pitney Bowes a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Pitney Bowes as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including generally higher debt management risk, weak operating cash flow and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself.

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