Toll Brothers Inc (TOL): Today's Featured Industrial Goods Laggard
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) pushed the Industrial Goods sector lower today making it today's featured Industrial Goods laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Toll Brothers fell 77 cents (-2.4%) to $31.99 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4.1 million shares of Toll Brothers exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.2 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $31.15-$32.64 after having opened the day at $32.53 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $32.76. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that declined today were:
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), down 24.1%,
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), down 19.2%,
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), down 12.7%, and
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), down 9.5%.
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Toll Brothers, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, builds, markets, and arranges finance for single-family detached and attached homes in luxury residential communities. Toll Brothers has a market cap of $5.57 billion and is part of the materials & construction industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 61.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 60.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate Toll Brothers a buy, three analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Toll Brothers as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
- You can view the full Toll Brothers Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
Hallwood Group
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HWG
), up 68.6%,
Renewable Energy Trade Board
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EBOD
), up 11.7%,
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), up 10.2%, and
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), up 8.7%, were all gainers within the industrial goods sector with
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) being today's featured industrial goods sector leader.
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