Brinker International Inc. (EAT): Today's Featured Leisure Winner
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) pushed the Leisure industry higher today making it today's featured leisure winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, Brinker International rose $0.76 (1.9%) to $39.80 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 2,151,404 shares of Brinker International exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,104,000 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $39.00-$39.91 after having opened the day at $39.01 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $39.04. Other companies within the Leisure industry that increased today were:
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), up 5.1%,
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), up 4.5%,
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), up 4.2% and
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), up 4.0%.
Brinker International, Inc. owns, develops, operates, and franchises various restaurant brands primarily in the United States. It operates the restaurants under the Chili's Grill & Bar and Maggiano's Little Italy brand names. Brinker International has a market cap of $2.7 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 23.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Brinker International a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Brinker International
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in stock price during the past year, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income 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.
- You can view the full Brinker International Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 8.3%,
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), down 7.7%,
Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain
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), down 5.3% and
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), down 5.0% , were all laggards within the leisure industry with
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) being today's leisure industry laggard.
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PowerShares Dynamic Leisure&Entert
(
) while those bearish on the leisure industry could consider
ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Services
(
).
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