The Dow moved higher Friday and logged its best quarterly gain in almost 14 years. For the quarter, the Dow jumped 8.14 percent, the S&P 500 surged 12.00 percent, and the Nasdaq soared 18.67 percent. The Yahoo Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Index also gained three quarters of a percent.
Manufactured Housing and related stocks that ended the week on a high note include Affiliated Managers Group, up .85 cents (.77 percent) to $111.81; Cavco, up .79 cents (1.73 percent) to $46.58; Equity LifeStyle Properties, up $1.29 (1.88 percent) to $69.74; Nobility Homes, up .26 cents (3.47 percent) to $7.75; Patrick Industries, up .84 cents (7.43 percent making it the day’s biggest gainer) to $12.15; Skyline Corp., up .16 cents (2.14 percent) to $7.65; Sun Communities, up .19 cents (.44 percent) to $43.33 and Walker & Dunlop, up .25 cents (2.02 percent) to $12.60.
Those closing lower were Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway, down $590 (.48 percent) to $121,900; Drew Industries, down .04 cents (.15 percent) to $27.31; Louisiana-Pacific, down .22 cents (2.30 percent making it the day’s biggest percentage decliner) to $9.35; Third Avenue Value Fund, down .45 cents (.98 percent) to $45.70; Universal Forest Products, down .71 cents (2.02 percent) to $34.48 and UMH Properties, down .07 cents (.63 percent) to $10.96.
Remaining unchanged Friday were Champion, Deer Valley, Liberty and Palm Harbor Homes.
Also in stock news today Sun Communities, a real estate investment trust that owns and operates manufactured housing and recreational vehicle communities, announced its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.63 per share for the first quarter of 2012. The dividend is payable April 27, 2012 to shareholders of record April 16, 2012. Sun Communities has approximately 26.5 million shares outstanding.
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