Brunswick Corporation (BC): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Laggard
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) pushed the Consumer Durables industry lower today making it today's featured Consumer Durables laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Brunswick Corporation fell $0.77 (-2.3%) to $33.28 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 1,912,068 shares of Brunswick Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,026,300 shares. The stock ranged in price between $32.93-$34.23 after having opened the day at $34.06 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $34.05. Other companies within the Consumer Durables industry that declined today were:
Furniture Brands International
(
), down 10.1%,
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), down 5.2%,
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), down 4.8% and
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), down 4.1%.
Brunswick Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets recreation products worldwide. Brunswick Corporation has a market cap of $3.3 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are up 17.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate Brunswick Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Brunswick Corporation
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, revenue growth, notable return on equity and solid stock price performance. 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 Brunswick Corporation Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
Appliance Recycling Centers Of America
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), up 6.8%,
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), up 4.3%,
Global-Tech Advanced Innovations
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), up 4.1% and
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), up 4.0% , were all gainers within the consumer durables industry with
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) being today's featured consumer durables industry leader.
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Consumer Discretionary Sel Sec SPDR
(
) while those bearish on the consumer durables industry could consider
ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods
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).
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