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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Stocks with Strong Financial Metrics (NYSE: URS)

Shares of URS traded higher by 1.98% or $0.8/share to $41.16. NYSE is trading at a price to book ratio of 0.86. This indicates that the value of the company's underlying assets exceeds today's market price. The PEG is 0.9 suggesting that the shares are trading at an excellent value relative to firm's growth rate. The price to sales ratio came in at 0.3. Hence, the firm is extremely cheap relative to its top line sales figures. On average, 626723 shares of URS exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 291235. These factors combined may make this company a potential takeover candidate. Value investors may have an eye on this one, especially if the stock gets cheaper.

URS Corporation is a provider of engineering, construction and technical services.