3 Stocks Pushing The Computer Software & Services Industry Lower

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One out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 51 points (0.4%) at 13,835 as of Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,532 issues advancing vs. 1,325 declining with 146 unchanged.

The Computer Software & Services industry currently sits up 0.1% versus the S&P 500, which is unchanged. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include Wipro (WIT), down 1.4%, Sap AG ADR (SAP), down 1.5% and Catamaran (CTRX), down 1.3%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry lower today:

3. Red Hat (RHT) is one of the companies pushing the Computer Software & Services industry lower today. As of noon trading, Red Hat is down $0.81 (-1.6%) to $49.43 on average volume Thus far, 1.2 million shares of Red Hat exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.7 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $49.42-$50.62 after having opened the day at $50.55 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $50.24.

Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions to enterprise customers worldwide. The company also offers enterprise-ready open source operating system platforms. Red Hat has a market cap of $9.9 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 69.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 3.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 18 analysts that rate Red Hat a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Red Hat 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, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. Get the full Red Hat Ratings Report now.

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