Whirlpool, the home appliance maker that sells washing machines and refrigerators in Sears stores, slumped 8%.
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Kohler, the Wisconsin-based maker of high-end bathroom fixtures, has developed its own range of home-whirlpool designs that offer a multitude of water experiences.
Corporate earnings have been mostly better than anticipated this quarter, but that was not the case for Whirlpool Friday and the home appliance maker is slashing its workforce as a result.
Home appliance maker Whirlpool rallied 5.6%, after comfortably beating Wall Street estimates for its third-quarter earnings and, more importantly, raising its forecast.
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Several stocks that Buckingham favors, like Home Depot and Whirlpool, have also had strong advances in stock price like the builders, but Buckingham likes their prospects for moving higher still.
Based on their relative strength ratings his latest additions to his portfolio are Amgen, Home Depot and Whirlpool, which were trading 14%, 13% and 46% above their 200-day moving averages.
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Florida contractor Mark Barrett put in geothermal to power his own home, pool and whirlpool.
On the home appliance side, Whirlpool, a company not known as a leading-edge tech firm, demonstrated a line of connected appliances with what it calls 6th Sense Live technology.
Whirlpool and Maytag are designing appliances (like Personal Valet, a home dry cleaning gadget) for fastidious male homeowners.
One such company is undoubtedly Whirlpool ( WHR) , a top manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances.
While most products are likely three to five years away, companies like Cisco, Whirlpool (nyse: WHR - news - people ) and home retailer Sears (nyse: S - news - people ) among others have formed an industry consortium called the Internet Home Alliance where all member companies can put their collective heads together.
That is because when someone is buying or selling a house, home appliances are usually pretty high on their shopping list, a welcomed trend for investors in Whirlpool.
Finally, consider homebuilding, which is taking off all across the country for the first time in over five years, creating a potential for positive opportunities associated with everything related to a home, from Home Depot (HD) and Owens Corning (OC), to Lennar (LEN) and Whirlpool (WHR).
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