Safeway Inc. (SWY): Today's Featured Retail Laggard
(
) pushed the Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Retail laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.0%. By the end of trading, Safeway fell $0.36 (-1.5%) to $23.30 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3,525,219 shares of Safeway exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6,144,200 shares. The stock ranged in price between $23.17-$23.70 after having opened the day at $23.63 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $23.66. Other companies within the Retail industry that declined today were:
Christopher & Banks Corporation
(
), down 6.8%,
Sears Hometown & Outlet Stores
(
), down 2.6%,
(
), down 2.5% and
(
), down 2.5%.
Safeway Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food and drug retailer in North America. Safeway has a market cap of $5.8 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.1, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 30.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Safeway a buy, 3 analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Safeway
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, increase in net income, attractive valuation levels and impressive record of earnings per share growth. 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 Safeway Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 8.8%,
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), up 6.3%,
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), up 6.2% and
(
), up 6.2% , were all gainers within the retail industry with
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) being today's featured retail industry leader.
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(
) while those bearish on the retail industry could consider
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(
).
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