NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

Panera Bread Company

(Nasdaq:

PNRA

) hit a new 52-week high Friday as it is currently trading at $153.14, above its previous 52-week high of $152.93 with 41,567 shares traded as of 9:55 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 390,900 shares over the past 30 days.

Panera Bread has a market cap of $4.16 billion and is part of the

services

sector and

leisure

industry. Shares are up 6.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

Panera Bread Company, together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, and franchises retail bakery-cafes in the United States and Canada. The company has a P/E ratio of 33.8, above the average leisure industry P/E ratio of 33.2 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Panera Bread as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, 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

Panera Bread Ratings Report

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