Harris Corporation (HRS): Today's Featured Telecommunications Winner
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) pushed the Telecommunications industry higher today making it today's featured telecommunications winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Harris Corporation rose $4.14 (7.8%) to $56.97 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 2,454,209 shares of Harris Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 712,200 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $53.64-$57.45 after having opened the day at $53.90 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $52.83. Other companies within the Telecommunications industry that increased today were:
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), up 11.8%,
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), up 8.4%,
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), up 7.3% and
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), up 6.7%.
Harris Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an international communications and information technology company that serves government and commercial markets worldwide. Harris Corporation has a market cap of $5.8 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 7.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates Harris Corporation a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Harris Corporation
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. 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 Harris Corporation Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 7.1%,
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), down 7.0%,
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), down 6.6% and
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), down 6.0% , were all laggards within the telecommunications industry with
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) being today's telecommunications industry laggard.
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) while those bearish on the telecommunications industry could consider
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