3 Stocks Pushing The Retail Industry Lower

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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%. A company within the industry that fell today was Lowe's Companies (LOW), up 1.3%.

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

3. Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao (CBD) is one of the companies pushing the Retail industry lower today. As of noon trading, Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao is down $1.67 (-3.1%) to $51.57 on heavy volume Thus far, 416,070 shares of Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 463,500 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $51.29-$52.50 after having opened the day at $52.23 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $53.24.

Companhia Brasileira de Distribuic o engages in the retail of food and non-food products to individual consumers through its chain of hypermarkets, supermarkets, specialized and department stores, and the Internet. Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao has a market cap of $13.8 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 48.5, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 19.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations, increase in stock price during the past year and notable return on equity. 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 Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao Ratings Report now.

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