Newell Rubbermaid Inc (NWL): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Laggard
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Furniture Brands International
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Newell Rubbermaid Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets consumer and commercial products worldwide. Newell Rubbermaid has a market cap of $6.15 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.6, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 31.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Newell Rubbermaid a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Newell Rubbermaid 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, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
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