Dow Today: JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Lower

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading down 35.0 points (-0.3%) at 13,965 as of Monday, Feb 25, 2013, 1:07 p.m. ET. During this time, 350.6 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 623.3 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,223 issues advancing vs. 1,715 declining with 117 unchanged.

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Holding back the Dow today is JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 30-cent decline (-0.6%) bringing the stock to $48.61. This single loss is lowering the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 2.27 points or roughly accounting for 6.5% of the Dow's overall loss. Volume for JPMorgan Chase currently sits at 17.3 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 23.1 million shares.

JPMorgan Chase has a market cap of $183.42 billion and is part of the financial sector and banking industry. Shares are up 9.7% year to date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.5%.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., a financial holding company, provides various financial services worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates JPMorgan Chase as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, revenue growth 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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