Toyota Motor Corp (TM): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Laggard

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Toyota Motor (TM) pushed the Consumer Goods sector lower today making it today's featured Consumer Goods laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.4%. By the end of trading, Toyota Motor fell $1.06 (-1%) to $102.87 on average volume. Throughout the day, 480,564 shares of Toyota Motor exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 573,400 shares. The stock ranged in price between $102.70-$103.62 after having opened the day at $103.43 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $103.93. Other companies within the Consumer Goods sector that declined today were: Chromcraft Revington (CRC), down 15%, Tianli Agritech (OINK), down 10.2%, Coffee Holding Company (JVA), down 8.9%, and Tandy Brands Accessories (TBAC), down 8.1%.

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Toyota Motor Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, assembly, and sale of passenger cars, minivans, and commercial vehicles and related parts primarily in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia. Toyota Motor has a market cap of $163.95 billion and is part of the automotive industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 47.1, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 11.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Toyota Motor a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Toyota Motor as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the positive front, Ever-Glory International Group (EVK), up 10.3%, Seneca Foods (SENEB), up 9.6%, G. Willi-Food International (WILC), up 9.2%, and Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide (QTWW), up 7.1%, were all gainers within the consumer goods sector with Dean Foods Company (DF) being today's featured consumer goods sector leader.

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