HollyFrontier Corp (HFC): Today's Featured Energy Winner
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(
) pushed the Energy industry higher today making it today's featured energy winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.5%. By the end of trading, HollyFrontier rose $1.26 (2.8%) to $45.62 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3,168,288 shares of HollyFrontier exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3,246,800 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $44.86-$45.85 after having opened the day at $45.12 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $44.36. Other companies within the Energy industry that increased today were:
BMB Munai
(
BMBM
), up 18.7%,
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), up 12.5%,
Andatee China Marine Fuel Services Corporat
(
), up 11.7% and
(
), up 8.4%.
HollyFrontier Corporation operates as an independent petroleum refiner and marketer in the United States. It produces light products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, specialty lubricant products, liquefied petroleum gas, fuel oil, and specialty and modified asphalt. HollyFrontier has a market cap of $9.0 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. Shares are down 5.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate HollyFrontier a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
HollyFrontier
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, compelling growth in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.
- You can view the full HollyFrontier Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
Genie Energy Ltd Common Stock B
(
), down 7.8%,
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), down 6.8%,
(
), down 6.6% and
(
), down 5.2% , were all laggards within the energy industry with
Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras
(
) being today's energy industry laggard.
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) while those bearish on the energy industry could consider
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).
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