Xerox Corporation (XRX): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Laggard
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Xerox Corporation provides business process and information technology (IT) outsourcing, and document management services worldwide. Xerox Corporation has a market cap of $9.32 billion and is part of the
sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 8.2, above the average consumer durables industry P/E ratio of 7.9 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 6.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Xerox Corporation a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and three rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Xerox Corporation as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, weak operating cash flow and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself.
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