Polaris Industries Inc. (PII): Today's Featured Automotive Winner
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) pushed the Automotive industry higher today making it today's featured automotive winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, Polaris Industries rose $1.20 (1.1%) to $110.09 on average volume. Throughout the day, 662,995 shares of Polaris Industries exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 783,800 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $108.49-$110.84 after having opened the day at $109.72 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $108.89. Other companies within the Automotive industry that increased today were:
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), up 9.6%,
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), up 6.5%,
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), up 4.4% and
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), up 4.2%.
Polaris Industries Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in designing, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, and on-road vehicles primarily in the United States, Canada, and internationally. Polaris Industries has a market cap of $7.5 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are up 29.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Polaris Industries a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Polaris Industries
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value.
- You can view the full Polaris Industries Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 4.4%,
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), down 2.5%,
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), down 2.4% and
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), down 2.1% , were all laggards within the automotive industry with
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) being today's automotive industry laggard.
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Consumer Discretionary Sel Sec SPDR
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) while those bearish on the automotive industry could consider
ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods
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).
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