Ralph Lauren Corp (RL): Today's Featured Consumer Non-Durables Winner
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) pushed the Consumer Non-Durables industry higher today making it today's featured consumer non-durables winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1%. By the end of trading, Ralph Lauren rose $1.71 (1.1%) to $160.75 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 1.5 million shares of Ralph Lauren exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 911,800 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $159.68-$164.77 after having opened the day at $163.24 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $159.04. Other companies within the Consumer Non-Durables industry that increased today were:
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Frederick's of Hollywood Group
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Ralph Lauren Corporation engages in the design, marketing, and distribution of lifestyle products. Ralph Lauren has a market cap of $9.27 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 11.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Ralph Lauren a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Ralph Lauren as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.
- You can view the full Ralph Lauren Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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Ever-Glory International Group
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), down 7.1%, were all laggards within the consumer non-durables industry with
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) being today's consumer non-durables industry laggard.
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ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods
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