4 Stocks Pushing The Wholesale Industry Lower

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All three major indices are trading down today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading down 18 points (-0.1%) at 13,964 as of Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,305 issues advancing vs. 1,524 declining with 153 unchanged.

The Wholesale industry currently sits up 0.1% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.1%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 4 stocks pushing the industry lower today:

4. United Natural Foods (UNFI) is one of the companies pushing the Wholesale industry lower today. As of noon trading, United Natural Foods is down $1.80 (-3.2%) to $54.64 on average volume Thus far, 226,530 shares of United Natural Foods exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 437,800 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $54.64-$56.00 after having opened the day at $55.70 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $56.44.

United Natural Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the distribution and retail of natural, organic, and specialty foods, as well as non-food products primarily in the United States and Canada. United Natural Foods has a market cap of $2.7 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 28.0, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 3.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate United Natural Foods a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates United Natural Foods as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, 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 shows low profit margins. Get the full United Natural Foods Ratings Report now.

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