Raytheon Company (RTN): Today's Featured Aerospace/Defense Winner

Raytheon Company was a winner within the aerospace/defense industry, rising $0.94 (1.3%) to $70.95 on heavy volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

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Raytheon Company

(

RTN

) pushed the Aerospace/Defense industry higher today making it today's featured aerospace/defense winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, Raytheon Company rose $0.94 (1.3%) to $70.95 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 2,835,457 shares of Raytheon Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,701,200 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $69.86-$71.24 after having opened the day at $70.00 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $70.01. Other companies within the Aerospace/Defense industry that increased today were:

Triumph Group

(

TGI

), up 2.5%,

TAT Technologies

(

TATT

), up 2.3% and

Sifco Industries

(

SIF

), up 2.2%.

Raytheon Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, and supports technological products, services, and solutions for governmental and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. Raytheon Company has a market cap of $22.6 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are up 21.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Raytheon Company a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Raytheon Company

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.

On the negative front,

Frontline

(

FRO

), down 4.7%,

Esterline Technologies

(

ESL

), down 1.9%,

AAR

(

AIR

), down 1.7% and

FLIR Systems

(

FLIR

), down 1.7% , were all laggards within the aerospace/defense industry with

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings

(

SPR

) being today's aerospace/defense industry laggard.

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iShares DJ US Aerospace & Def Idx

(

ITA

) while those bearish on the aerospace/defense industry could consider

ProShares Short Dow 30

(

DOG

).

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