Embraer S.A. (ERJ): Today's Featured Aerospace/Defense Winner
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) pushed the Aerospace/Defense industry higher today making it today's featured aerospace/defense winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, Embraer S.A rose $0.41 (1.1%) to $39.22 on light volume. Throughout the day, 642,464 shares of Embraer S.A exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,007,800 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $38.71-$39.34 after having opened the day at $38.85 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $38.81. Other companies within the Aerospace/Defense industry that increased today were:
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Embraer S.A. primarily develops, produces, and sells jet and turboprop aircrafts for civil and defense aviation markets in Brazil, North America, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and internationally. Embraer S.A has a market cap of $7.2 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are up 36.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 5 analysts that rate Embraer S.A a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Embraer S.A
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
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