Netflix Inc. (NFLX): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Winner
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) pushed the Specialty Retail industry higher today making it today's featured specialty retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1%. By the end of trading, Netflix rose $4.20 (6.2%) to $71.91 on average volume. Throughout the day, six million shares of Netflix exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.5 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $67.17-$72.15 after having opened the day at $67.47 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $67.71. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that increased today were:
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), up 13.3%,
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), up 13.1%,
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), up 5.7%, and
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), up 4.6%.
Netflix, Inc. provides Internet subscription services for TV shows and movies in the United States and internationally. The company offers its subscribers to watch unlimited TV shows and movies streamed over the Internet to their TVs, computers, and mobile devices. Netflix has a market cap of $3.98 billion and is part of the
sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 24.2, equal to the average specialty retail industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 2.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Netflix a buy, eight analysts rate it a sell, and 17 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Netflix as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, weak operating cash flow and generally poor debt management.
- You can view the full Netflix Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
Birks & Mayors
(
BMJ
), down 7.9%,
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), down 5%,
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), down 3.9%, and
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), down 2.8%, were all losers within the specialty retail industry with
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) being today's specialty retail industry loser.
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(
) while those bearish on the specialty retail industry could consider
ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods
(
).
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