Riverbed Technology Incorporated (RVBD): Today's Featured Computer Hardware Laggard
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Riverbed Technology Incorporated
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) pushed the Computer Hardware industry lower today making it today's featured Computer Hardware laggard. The industry as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, Riverbed Technology Incorporated fell 38 cents (-1.8%) to $20.30 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2.9 million shares of Riverbed Technology Incorporated exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $19.86-$20.52 after having opened the day at $20.50 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $20.68. Other companies within the Computer Hardware industry that declined today were:
XRS
(
XRSC
), down 18%,
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), down 5.7%,
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), down 5.3%, and
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), down 4.4%.
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Riverbed Technology, Inc. provides solutions to the fundamental problems associated with information technology performance across wide area networks (WANs) in the United States and internationally. Riverbed Technology Incorporated has a market cap of $3.03 billion and is part of the
sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 55.2, above the average computer hardware industry P/E ratio of 50.3 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 10.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Riverbed Technology Incorporated a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 19 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Riverbed Technology Incorporated as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and robust revenue growth. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself and weak operating cash flow.
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