Capital goods stocks finished up 1.4% on Wall Street on Friday.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.5%, the Nasdaq increased 0.4% and the S&P 500 pushed 0.5% higher.
Some of the biggest gainers among capital goods stocks include:
- Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI): AWI stock is up 1.6% today.
- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc (JEC): JEC stock is up 1.5%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- NCI Building Systems (NCS): NCS stock is up 1.4% today.
- Eagle Materials Inc (EXP): EXP stock is up 1.1% today.
- Ingersoll-Rand Plc (Ireland) (IR): IR stock is up 1.1%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Aecom Technology Corp (ACM): ACM stock is up 1.1%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Rockwell Collins (COL): COL stock is up 1.0% today.
- Masco Corp (MAS): MAS stock is up 1.0% today.
- Ryland Group (RYL): RYL stock is up 1.0% today.
- BE Aerospace (BEAV): BEAV stock is up 0.9% today.
Some of the biggest losers among capital goods stocks include:
- Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN): BECN stock is down 1.2% today.
- Itt Industries (ITT): ITT stock is down 1.1% today.
- Simon Property Group (SPG): SPG stock is down 1.0%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- John Bean Technologies Corp (JBT): JBT stock is down 0.9% today.
- Cemex S.A.B. De C.V. Sponsored (CX): CX stock is down 0.7%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Tennant Company (TNC): TNC stock is down 0.7% today.
- Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT): AIT stock is down 0.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Harsco Corp (HSC): HSC stock is down 0.5%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT): LMT stock is down 0.5% today.
- Heico Cp Cl A (HEI.A): HEI.A stock is down 0.4% today.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
