Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC): Today's Featured Media Winner

Time Warner Cable was a winner within the media industry, rising $1.51 (1.3%) to $115.36 on average volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

Time Warner Cable

(

TWC

) pushed the Media industry higher today making it today's featured media winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.8%. By the end of trading, Time Warner Cable rose $1.51 (1.3%) to $115.36 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2,446,738 shares of Time Warner Cable exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,689,000 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $114.22-$116.95 after having opened the day at $115.91 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $113.85. Other companies within the Media industry that increased today were:

Digital Domain Media Group

(

DDMG

), up 46.7%,

Digital Domain Media Group

(

DDMGQ

), up 46.7%,

Envoy Capital Group

(

ECGI

), up 8.4% and

YOU On Demand Holdings

(

YOD

), up 6.6%.

Time Warner Cable Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers video, high-speed data, and voice services to residential and business service customers over its broadband cable systems in the United States. Time Warner Cable has a market cap of $33.2 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 17.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Time Warner Cable a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Time Warner Cable

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, reasonable valuation levels, solid stock price performance and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

On the negative front,

Tiger Media

(

IDI

), down 10.1%,

Lee

(

LEE

), down 7.9%,

Mandalay Digital Group

(

MNDLD

), down 4.9% and

Mandalay Digital Group

(

MNDL

), down 4.9% , were all laggards within the media industry with

Sinclair Broadcast Group

(

SBGI

) being today's media industry laggard.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the media industry could consider

PowerShares Dynamic Media

(

PBS

) while those bearish on the media industry could consider

ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Services

(

SCC

).

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