Dow Jones (DJIA) Today: Boeing (BA) Leads The Day Higher, Intel (INTC) Lags

The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Boeing (NYSE:BA), which is sporting a $1.26 gain (+0.8%) bringing the stock to $154.38. Holding back the Dow today is Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 30-cent decline (-0.9%) bringing the stock to $32.89.
By Naomi Hossain ,

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The

Dow Jones Industrial Average

(

^DJI

) is trading up 64 points (+0.4%) at 17,920 as of Monday, Mar 9, 2015, 9:36 a.m. ET. During this time, 14.1 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 372.2 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,709 issues advancing vs. 1,002 declining with 255 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be

Boeing

(NYSE:

BA

), which is sporting a $1.26 gain (+0.8%) bringing the stock to $154.38. This single gain is lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 9.54 points or roughly accounting for 14.9% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for Boeing currently sits at 132,239 shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 5.1 million shares.

Boeing has a market cap of $108.81 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector and aerospace/defense industry. Shares are up 17.8% year-to-date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.4%.

The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide.

TheStreet Ratings rates Boeing as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

Holding back the Dow today is

Intel

(Nasdaq:

INTC

), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 30-cent decline (-0.9%) bringing the stock to $32.89. Volume for Intel currently sits at 1.7 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 28.5 million shares.

Intel has a market cap of $159.75 billion and is part of the technology sector and electronics industry. Shares are down 8.5% year-to-date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.9%.

Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms worldwide. It operates through PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Internet of Things Group, Mobile and Communications Group, Software and Services, and All Other segments.

TheStreet Ratings rates Intel as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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