Praxair Inc. (PX): Today's Featured Chemicals Winner
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Praxair, Inc. engages in the production, distribution, and sale atmospheric and process gases, as well as surface coatings in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. Praxair has a market cap of $31.56 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 1.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Praxair a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and five rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Praxair as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full Praxair Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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