Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK): Today's Featured Industrial Laggard
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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. provides power and hand tools, mechanical access solutions, and electronic security and monitoring systems primarily in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Canada. Stanley Black & Decker has a market cap of $12.05 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 5.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Stanley Black & Decker a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Stanley Black & Decker as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
- You can view the full Stanley Black & Decker Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 13%,
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), up 7.4%, were all gainers within the industrial industry with
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) being today's featured industrial industry leader.
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