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New Oriental Education & Technology Group I (
EDU) pushed the Diversified Services industry higher today making it today's featured diversified services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.3%. By the end of trading, New Oriental Education & Technology Group I rose 61 cents (3.4%) to $18.50 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.7 million shares of New Oriental Education & Technology Group I exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $17.75-$18.60 after having opened the day at $17.82 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $17.89. Other companies within the Diversified Services industry that increased today were:
Innotrac Corporation (
INOC), up 49.3%,
Cambium Learning Group (
ABCD), up 11.1%,
Magal Security Systems (
MAGS), up 10.3%, and
EnviroStar (
EVI), up 9.6%.
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New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. provides private educational services primarily in China. New Oriental Education & Technology Group I has a market cap of $2.85 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.5, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 25.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate New Oriental Education & Technology Group I a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates New Oriental Education & Technology Group I as a
hold. 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 and growth in earnings per share. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself and disappointing return on equity.
On the negative front,
Swisher Hygiene (
SWSH), down 9.4%,
Hudson Technology (
HDSN), down 9%,
EnerNOC (
ENOC), down 8.7%, and
Pointer Telocation (
PNTR), down 8.7%, were all laggards within the diversified services industry with
MasterCard Incorporated (
MA) being today's diversified services industry laggard.
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iShares Dow Jones US Cons Services (
IYC) while those bearish on the diversified services industry could consider
ProShares Ultra Short Consumer Sers (
SCC).
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