Pentair Ltd (PNR): Today's Featured Industrial Goods Winner

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Pentair (PNR) pushed the Industrial Goods sector higher today making it today's featured industrial goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Pentair rose 52 cents (1%) to $51.05 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.7 million shares of Pentair exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.7 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $50.59-$51.35 after having opened the day at $50.59 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $50.53. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that increased today were: THT Heat Transfer Technology (THTI), up 11.6%, Intellicheck Mobilisa (IDN), up 10.7%, McDermott International (MDR), up 8.6%, and Goldfield (GV), up 7.9%.

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Pentair Ltd. delivers products, services, and solutions for water and other fluids, thermal management, and equipment protection in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. Pentair has a market cap of $10.68 billion and is part of the industrial industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 2.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Pentair a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Pentair as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the negative front, India Globalization Capital (IGC), down 7.5%, Skullcandy (SKUL), down 7%, Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), down 6.5%, and PMFG (PMFG), down 4.4%, were all laggards within the industrial goods sector with Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI) being today's industrial goods sector laggard.

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