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Hertz Global Holdings (
HTZ) pushed the Diversified Services industry lower today making it today's featured Diversified Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Hertz Global Holdings fell 18 cents (-1.2%) to $14.82 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2.6 million shares of Hertz Global Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.2 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $14.64-$15 after having opened the day at $14.99 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $15. Other companies within the Diversified Services industry that declined today were:
Oxygen Biotherapeutics (
OXBT), down 11.1%,
Westway Group (
WWAY), down 8.2%,
Industrial Services of America (
IDSA), down 7.3%, and
Xueda Education Group (
XUE), down 6.6%.
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Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the car and equipment rental businesses worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Car Rental and Equipment Rental. Hertz Global Holdings has a market cap of $6.17 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 25% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Hertz Global Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Hertz Global Holdings as a
buy. 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, revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
On the positive front,
SuperMedia (
SPMD), up 11.3%,
ENGlobal Corporation (
ENG), up 8.3%,
Innovaro (
INV), up 6.9%, and
RPX (
RPXC), up 6.6%, were all gainers within the diversified services industry with
Weight Watchers International (
WTW) being today's featured diversified services industry leader.
For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the diversified services industry could consider
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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