Dow Today: Bank Of America Corporation (BAC) Higher

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading down 3.0 points at 14,051 as of Friday, Mar 1, 2013, 10:35 a.m. ET. During this time, 164.4 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 627.5 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 993 issues advancing vs. 1,792 declining with 145 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC), which is sporting a 17-cent gain (+1.5%) bringing the stock to $11.40. Volume for Bank of America Corporation currently sits at 56 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 168.9 million shares.

Bank of America Corporation has a market cap of $121.79 billion and is part of the financial sector and banking industry. Shares are down 2.7% year to date as of Thursday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 0.4%.

Bank of America Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial products and services to individual consumers, small-and middle-market businesses, institutional investors, corporations, and governments in the United States and internationally. The company has a P/E ratio of 45.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Bank of America Corporation as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins, notable return on equity and solid stock price performance. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income and generally higher debt management risk.

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