NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

Sturm Ruger & Company

(NYSE:

RGR

) hit a new 52-week high Friday as it is currently trading at $44.49, above its previous 52-week high of $44.37 with 14,960 shares traded as of 9:35 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 189,000 shares over the past 30 days.

Sturm Ruger has a market cap of $733.3 million and is part of the

consumer goods

sector and

consumer durables

industry. Shares are up 31.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and export of firearms in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.8, above the average consumer durables industry P/E ratio of 21 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Sturm Ruger 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, solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity. You can view the full

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