Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. General Electric ( GE) pushed the Industrial industry higher today making it today's featured industrial winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.9%. By the end of trading, General Electric rose $0.43 (1.8%) to $24.95 on average volume. Throughout the day, 44,189,249 shares of General Electric exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 38,602,200 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $24.62-$25.10 after having opened the day at $24.80 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $24.52. Other companies within the Industrial industry that increased today were: EnerSys ( ENS), up 9.3%, Powell Industries ( POWL), up 7.9%, Snap-on ( SNA), up 7.8% and Colfax Corporation ( CFX), up 5.7%. General Electric Company operates as an infrastructure and financial services company worldwide. General Electric has a market cap of $248.6 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are down 12.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate General Electric a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates General Electric as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in stock price during the past year, growth in earnings per share, reasonable valuation levels and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
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