Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc (FBHS): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Laggard

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Fortune Brands Home & Security ( FBHS) pushed the Consumer Goods sector lower today making it today's featured Consumer Goods laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Fortune Brands Home & Security fell $1.00 (-2.3%) to $43.16 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1,006,782 shares of Fortune Brands Home & Security exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,240,200 shares. The stock ranged in price between $43.01-$44.28 after having opened the day at $44.07 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $44.16. Other companies within the Consumer Goods sector that declined today were: Crystal Rock Holdings ( CRVP), down 10.8%, Orchids Paper Products Company ( TIS), down 6.0%, Agria Corporation ( GRO), down 5.0% and Coldwater Creek ( CWTR), down 4.0%.

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Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. provides home and security products for use in residential home repair, remodeling, new construction, security applications, and storage. Fortune Brands Home & Security has a market cap of $7.3 billion and is part of the consumer durables industry. Shares are down 3.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Fortune Brands Home & Security a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Fortune Brands Home & Security as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, expanding profit margins, solid stock price performance and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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On the positive front, Zuoan Fashion ( ZA), up 9.6%, Herman Miller ( MLHR), up 9.3%, Primo Water ( PRMW), up 7.3% and Crumbs Bake Shop ( CRMB), up 7.0% , were all gainers within the consumer goods sector with Lorillard ( LO) being today's featured consumer goods sector leader.

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