A.O. Smith Corporation (AOS): Today's Featured Industrial Winner

A.O. Smith Corporation was a winner within the industrial industry, rising $1.01 (2.5%) to $41.21 on heavy volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

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A.O. Smith Corporation

(

AOS

) pushed the Industrial industry higher today making it today's featured industrial winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.5%. By the end of trading, A.O. Smith Corporation rose $1.01 (2.5%) to $41.21 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 1,867,855 shares of A.O. Smith Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 783,900 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $40.78-$43.54 after having opened the day at $42.00 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $40.20. Other companies within the Industrial industry that increased today were:

Clean Diesel Technologies

(

CDTI

), up 49.2%,

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corp

(

APWC

), up 10.9%,

China Valves Technology

(

CVVT

), up 8.2% and

Nidec Corporation

(

NJ

), up 5.5%.

A. O. Smith Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of water heaters and boilers to the residential and commercial markets primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, India, and China. The company operates in two segments, North America and Rest of World. A.O. Smith Corporation has a market cap of $3.2 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are up 27.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate A.O. Smith Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

A.O. Smith Corporation

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

On the negative front,

Zoltek Companies

(

ZOLT

), down 17.9%,

China Recycling Energy Corporation

(

CREG

), down 6.8%,

Coleman Cable

(

CCIX

), down 5.4% and

Broadwind Energy

(

BWEN

), down 5.2% , were all laggards within the industrial industry with

Caterpillar

(

CAT

) being today's industrial industry laggard.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the industrial industry could consider

SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average

(

DIA

) while those bearish on the industrial industry could consider

ProShares UltraShort Industrials

(

SIJ

).

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