Dow Today: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Leads The Day Higher, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Lags

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading down 60.0 points (-0.4%) at 14,454 as of Monday, Mar 18, 2013, 9:35 a.m. ET. During this time, 41.6 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 614 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 317 issues advancing vs. 2,180 declining with 100 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), which is sporting a 20-cent gain (+0.9%) bringing the stock to $22.38. Volume for Hewlett-Packard currently sits at 2.2 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 26.5 million shares.

Hewlett-Packard has a market cap of $42.63 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer hardware industry. Shares are up 55.6% year to date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.4%.

Hewlett-Packard Company and its subsidiaries provide products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers, small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health, and education sectors worldwide.

TheStreet Ratings rates Hewlett-Packard as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, generally high debt management risk, disappointing return on equity, poor profit margins and generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself.

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Holding back the Dow today is JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a $1.02 decline (-2%) bringing the stock to $49. This single loss is lowering the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 7.72 points or roughly accounting for 12.9% of the Dow's overall loss. Volume for JPMorgan Chase currently sits at 2.5 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 23.9 million shares.

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JPMorgan Chase has a market cap of $195.2 billion and is part of the financial sector and banking industry. Shares are up 13.8% year to date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.4%.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., a financial holding company, provides various financial services worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.8, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates JPMorgan Chase as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income and attractive valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

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