3 Stocks Pushing The Telecommunications Industry Lower

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All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 10 points (0.1%) at 14,085 as of Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, 12:04 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,607 issues advancing vs. 1,243 declining with 160 unchanged.

The Telecommunications industry currently sits down 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.2%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include Telecom Argentina (TEO), down 7.2%, BT Group (BT), down 1.1% and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT), down 0.9%. Top gainers within the industry include China Unicom (Hong Kong (CHU), up 1.5%, China Telecom (CHA), up 1.0%, America Movil S.A.B. de C.V (AMOV), up 0.9%, AT&T (T), up 0.8% and Qualcomm (QCOM), up 0.5%.

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

3. BCE (BCE) is one of the companies pushing the Telecommunications industry lower today. As of noon trading, BCE is down $0.20 (-0.4%) to $45.04 on light volume Thus far, 213,086 shares of BCE exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 869,500 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $44.79-$45.22 after having opened the day at $45.06 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $45.24.

BCE Inc. provides wire line, wireless, Internet, and television (TV) services to residential, business, and wholesale customers primarily in Canada. BCE has a market cap of $34.5 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 3.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate BCE a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates BCE as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in stock price during the past year, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full BCE Ratings Report now.

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