NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

Curtiss-Wright Corporation

(NYSE:

CW

) hit a new 52-week high Friday as it is currently trading at $39.42, above its previous 52-week high of $38.92 with 28,078 shares traded as of 10:15 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 237,900 shares over the past 30 days.

Curtiss-Wright has a market cap of $1.73 billion and is part of the

industrial goods

sector and

aerospace/defense

industry. Shares are up 9.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and overhauls precision components and systems. It operates in three segments: Flow Control, Motion Control, and Metal Treatment. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.1, above the average aerospace/defense industry P/E ratio of 13.6 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Curtiss-Wright as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, attractive valuation levels and solid stock price performance. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. You can view the full

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