Pall Corporation Stock Downgraded (PLL)

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and growth in earnings per share. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including premium valuation and weak operating cash flow.

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Highlights from the ratings report include:

• The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 12.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 3.5%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
• The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.42, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. To add to this, PLL has a quick ratio of 1.81, which demonstrates the ability of the company to cover short-term liquidity needs.
• The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Machinery industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, PALL CORP has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500.
• Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $50.42 million or 59.86% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.

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Pall Corporation engages in manufacturing and marketing filtration, purification, and separation products and integrated systems solutions worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 25.1, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Pall has a market cap of $7.4 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector and industrial industry. Shares are up 12.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

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-- Written by a member of TheStreet Ratings Staff

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