Duke Realty Corp (DRE): Today's Featured Real Estate Laggard
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) pushed the Real Estate industry lower today making it today's featured Real Estate laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Duke Realty fell $0.32 (-1.8%) to $17.09 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3,745,475 shares of Duke Realty exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3,598,400 shares. The stock ranged in price between $16.94-$17.50 after having opened the day at $17.37 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $17.41. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that declined today were:
(
), down 8.8%,
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), down 2.9%,
Universal Health Realty Income
(
), down 2.8% and
Income Opportunity Realty Investors
(
), down 2.2%.
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Duke Realty Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. It offers leasing, property and asset management, development, construction, build-to-suit, and other tenant-related services. Duke Realty has a market cap of $5.6 billion and is part of the financial sector. Shares are up 26.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
TheStreet Ratings rates Duke Realty as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.
- You can view the full Duke Realty Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), down 20.4%,
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), down 12.8%,
Institutional Financial Markets
(
), down 9.2% and
Altisource Portfolio Solutions
(
), down 7.8% , were all gainers within the real estate industry with
(
) being today's featured real estate industry leader.
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) while those bearish on the real estate industry could consider
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).
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