Hovnanian Enterprises Inc (HOV): Today's Featured Industrial Goods Winner

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Hovnanian (HOV) pushed the Industrial Goods sector higher today making it today's featured industrial goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day down 1.1%. By the end of trading, Hovnanian rose 15 cents (2.8%) to $5.44 on average volume. Throughout the day, eight million shares of Hovnanian exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9.9 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $5.14-$5.49 after having opened the day at $5.30 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $5.29. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that increased today were: PGT (PGTI), up 14.7%, China Valves Technology (CVVT), up 6.7%, Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), up 6%, and Zoltek Companies (ZOLT), up 6%.

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Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. designs, constructs, markets, and sells residential homes in the United States. It constructs single-family attached and detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, and urban infill and active adult homes. Hovnanian has a market cap of $715.2 million and is part of the materials & construction industry. Shares are down 17.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are no analysts that rate Hovnanian a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Hovnanian as a sell. Among the areas we feel are negative, one of the most important has been poor profit margins.

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On the negative front, Taser International (TASR), down 19.7%, Patrick Industries (PATK), down 16.7%, JinkoSolar (JKS), down 12.2%, and Ultralife Batteries (ULBI), down 8.9%, were all laggards within the industrial goods sector with Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) being today's industrial goods sector laggard.

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