Danaher Corporation (DHR): Today's Featured Industrial Goods Winner
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) pushed the Industrial Goods sector higher today making it today's featured industrial goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Danaher Corporation rose $0.71 (1.2%) to $60.94 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 5,088,384 shares of Danaher Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,760,600 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $60.08-$61.53 after having opened the day at $60.38 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $60.23. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that increased today were:
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), up 26.1%,
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), up 9.4%,
China Advanced Construction Materials Group
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), up 7.1% and
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), up 6.9%.
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Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services primarily in North America, Europe, and Asia/Australia. Danaher Corporation has a market cap of $41.9 billion and is part of the industrial industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 7.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.
TheStreet Ratings rates Danaher Corporation as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, increase in stock price during the past year, impressive record of earnings per share growth and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.
- You can view the full Danaher Corporation Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 9.3%,
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), down 7.5%,
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), down 6.7% and
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), down 6.3% , were all laggards within the industrial goods sector with
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) being today's industrial goods sector laggard.
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) while those bearish on the industrial goods sector could consider
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).
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