Dow Jones (DJIA) Today: JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Leads The Day Higher, Home Depot (HD) Lags
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The
Dow Jones Industrial Average
(
^DJI
) is trading down 65.0 points (-0.4%) at 18,070 as of Friday, Mar 6, 2015, 9:36 a.m. ET. During this time, 19.9 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 374 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 765 issues advancing vs. 2,030 declining with 162 unchanged.
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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be
(NYSE:
), which is sporting a 47-cent gain (+0.8%) bringing the stock to $62.47. Volume for JPMorgan Chase currently sits at one million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 18.8 million shares.
JPMorgan Chase has a market cap of $231.64 billion and is part of the financial sector and banking industry. Shares are down 0.9% year-to-date as of Thursday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.6%.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., a financial holding company, provides various financial services worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Consumer & Community Banking, Corporate & Investment Bank, Commercial Banking, and Asset Management.
TheStreet Ratings rates JPMorgan Chase as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations, increase in stock price during the past year, notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
- You can view the full JPMorgan Chase Ratings Report.
Holding back the Dow today is
(NYSE:
), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a $1.42 decline (-1.2%) bringing the stock to $114.48. This single loss is lowering the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 10.75 points or roughly accounting for 16.5% of the Dow's overall loss. Volume for Home Depot currently sits at 379,893 shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 5.6 million shares.
Home Depot has a market cap of $151.23 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. Shares are up 10.4% year-to-date as of Thursday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.1%.
The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer.
TheStreet Ratings rates Home Depot as a
. 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 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 Home Depot Ratings Report.
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