MetroPCS Communications Inc (PCS): Today's Featured Telecommunications Winner

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MetroPCS Communications (PCS) pushed the Telecommunications industry higher today making it today's featured telecommunications winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.7%. By the end of trading, MetroPCS Communications rose 15 cents (1.5%) to $9.90 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 11.7 million shares of MetroPCS Communications exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.4 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $9.77-$10.07 after having opened the day at $9.78 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $9.75. Other companies within the Telecommunications industry that increased today were: MERU Networks (MERU), up 41.7%, Alvarion (ALVR), up 29.9%, WPCS International (WPCS), up 6.4%, and Plantronics (PLT), up 6%.

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MetroPCS Communications, Inc., a wireless telecommunications carrier, together with its subsidiaries, provides wireless broadband mobile services in the United States. MetroPCS Communications has a market cap of $3.55 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 1.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate MetroPCS Communications a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates MetroPCS Communications as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in stock price during the past year, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and attractive valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

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