Dow Today: Boeing (BA) Leads The Day Higher, McDonald's Corporation (MCD) Lags

The Dow component that led the way higher today was <b><a href="http://www.thestreet.com/quote/ba.html">Boeing</a></b> (NYSE:<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/quote/ba.html">BA</a>), which sported a 70-cent gain (+0.9%) bringing the stock to $75.46. Holding the Dow back today was <b><a href="http://www.thestreet.com/quote/mcd.html">McDonald's Corporation</a></b> (NYSE:<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/quote/mcd.html">MCD</a>), which lagged the broader Dow index with an 86-cent decline (-0.8%) bringing the stock to $100.05.
By TheStreet Wire ,

The

Dow Jones Industrial Average

(

^DJI

) closed up five points at 12,883. During the day, 877.7 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 818.6 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio closed at 1,740 issues advancing vs. 1,257 declining with 117 unchanged.

The Dow component that led the way higher today was

Boeing

(NYSE:

BA

), which sported a 70-cent gain (+0.9%) bringing the stock to $75.46. This single gain lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 5.3 points or roughly accounting for 106% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for Boeing ended the day at 5.3 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 5.3 million shares.

Boeing has a market cap of $56.01 billion and is part of the

industrial goods

sector and

aerospace/defense

industry. Shares are up 2.9% year to date as of Tuesday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.3%.

The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, sale, and support of commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.2, below the average aerospace/defense industry P/E ratio of 14.9 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Boeing as a

buy

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

Holding the Dow back today was

McDonald's Corporation

(NYSE:

MCD

), which lagged the broader Dow index with an 86-cent decline (-0.8%) bringing the stock to $100.05. Volume for McDonald's Corporation ended the day at 5.3 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 5.4 million shares.

McDonald's Corporation has a market cap of $101.04 billion and is part of the

services

sector and

leisure

industry. Shares are up 0.6% year to date as of Tuesday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.8%.

McDonald's Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a foodservice retailer worldwide. It franchises and operates McDonald's restaurants that offer various food items, soft drinks, coffee, desserts, snacks, and other beverages, as well as full or limited breakfast menu. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.9, below the average leisure industry P/E ratio of 19.3 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates McDonald's Corporation as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, expanding profit margins and increase in net income. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

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