PACCAR Inc (PCAR): Today's Featured Automotive Laggard

PACCAR was a leading decliner within the automotive industry, falling $1.05 (-1.8%) to $56.20 on heavy volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

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PACCAR

(

PCAR

) pushed the Automotive industry lower today making it today's featured Automotive laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.2%. By the end of trading, PACCAR fell $1.05 (-1.8%) to $56.20 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 3,366,495 shares of PACCAR exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,540,400 shares. The stock ranged in price between $55.63-$56.50 after having opened the day at $55.73 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $57.25. Other companies within the Automotive industry that declined today were:

Accuride

(

ACW

), down 6.0%,

Gentex Corporation

(

GNTX

), down 5.7%,

Allison Transmission Holdings

(

ALSN

), down 2.8% and

Oshkosh Corporation

(

OSK

), down 2.8%.

PACCAR Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and distributes light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks and related aftermarket parts worldwide. PACCAR has a market cap of $20.4 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are up 27.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate PACCAR a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

PACCAR

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, good cash flow from operations and reasonable valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

On the positive front,

Federal-Mogul

(

FDML

), up 6.2%,

Supreme Industries

(

STS

), up 4.1%,

Standard Motor Products

(

SMP

), up 3.0% and

Gentherm

(

THRM

), up 2.8% , were all gainers within the automotive industry with

Delphi Automotive

(

DLPH

) being today's featured automotive industry leader.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the automotive industry could consider

Consumer Discretionary Sel Sec SPDR

(

XLY

) while those bearish on the automotive industry could consider

ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods

(

SZK

).

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