Ingredion Inc (INGR): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Winner

Ingredion was a winner within the food & beverage industry, rising $1.00 (1.6%) to $64.21 on average volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

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Ingredion

(

INGR

) pushed the Food & Beverage industry higher today making it today's featured food & beverage winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Ingredion rose $1.00 (1.6%) to $64.21 on average volume. Throughout the day, 653,322 shares of Ingredion exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 503,000 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $63.17-$64.44 after having opened the day at $63.64 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $63.21. Other companies within the Food & Beverage industry that increased today were:

China Marine Food Group

(

CMFO

), up 28.9%,

American Lorain

(

ALN

), up 7.3%,

Coca-Cola Femsa S.A.B. de C.V

(

KOF

), up 4.2% and

Crumbs Bake Shop

(

CRMB

), up 3.7%.

Ingredion Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells starch and sweetener ingredients in North America, South America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Ingredion has a market cap of $4.8 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are down 1.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Ingredion a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Ingredion

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels and compelling growth in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.

On the negative front,

Omega Protein Corporation

(

OME

), down 8.5%,

Castle Brands Incorporated

(

ROX

), down 7.1%,

Lifeway Foods

(

LWAY

), down 4.8% and

Annie's

(

BNNY

), down 3.8% , were all laggards within the food & beverage industry with

SodaStream International

(

SODA

) being today's food & beverage industry laggard.

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PowerShares Dynamic Food & Beverage

(

PBJ

) while those bearish on the food & beverage industry could consider

PowerShares DB Agriculture Sht ETN

(

ADZ

).

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