5 Stocks Pushing The Retail Industry Higher

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All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 42 points (0.3%) at 14,338 as of Thursday, March 7, 2013, 11:50 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,674 issues advancing vs. 1,197 declining with 153 unchanged.

The Retail industry currently sits up 0.6% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.2%. Top gainers within the industry include Delhaize Group (DEG), up 4.5%, and AutoZone (AZO), up 1.1%. A company within the industry that fell today was Lowe's Companies (LOW), up 1.3%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the industry higher today:

5. Kroger (KR) is one of the companies pushing the Retail industry higher today. As of noon trading, Kroger is up $1.10 (3.8%) to $30.46 on heavy volume Thus far, 4.1 million shares of Kroger exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.9 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $29.83-$30.62 after having opened the day at $30.03 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $29.36.

The Kroger Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer in the United States. The company also manufactures and processes food for sale in its supermarkets. Kroger has a market cap of $15.3 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.1, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 12.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Kroger a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Kroger as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. 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 Kroger Ratings Report now.

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