Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (MLNX): Today's Featured Electronics Laggard

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Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) pushed the Electronics industry lower today making it today's featured Electronics laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.9%. By the end of trading, Mellanox Technologies fell 89 cents (-1.6%) to $53.28 on light volume. Throughout the day, 876,399 shares of Mellanox Technologies exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.6 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $52.72-$54.29 after having opened the day at $53.69 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $54.17. Other companies within the Electronics industry that declined today were: Plug Power (PLUG), down 52%, Aehr Test Systems (AEHR), down 10%, Itron (ITRI), down 9.1%, and Orion Energy Systems (OESX), down 7.1%.

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Mellanox technologies, Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company, produces and supplies interconnect products for computing, storage, and communication applications in the computing, Web 2.0, storage, financial services, database, and cloud markets. Mellanox Technologies has a market cap of $2.2 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 12.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Mellanox Technologies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Mellanox Technologies as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, solid stock price performance and compelling growth in net income. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results.

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On the positive front, SunPower Corporation (SPWR), up 22.4%, Enphase Energy (ENPH), up 17.8%, Spire Corporation (SPIR), up 14.3%, and China Sunergy (CSUN), up 11.8%, were all gainers within the electronics industry with Micron Technology (MU) being today's featured electronics industry leader.

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