Most stocks closed lower Wednesday with the Dow off more than 100 points. While most watched manufactured housing stocks also closed lower, the Yahoo Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value recorded a small gain.
Closing lower were Affiliated Managers Group, down $1.91 (1.66 percent) to 113.28; Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway, down $697 (.50 percent) to $121,750; Cavco, down .14 cents (.30 percent) to $47.01; Drew Industries, down .37 cents (1.33 percent) to $27.37; Equity Lifestyle Properties, down .30 cents (.43 percent) to $69.77; Louisiana-Pacific, down .18 cents (1.95 percent) to $9.05; Patrick Industries, down $2.07 (17.11 percent making it the day’s decliner) to $10.03; Skyline Corp, down .26 cents (3.46 percent) to $7.26; Sun Communities, down .42 cents (.96 percent) to $43.16; Universal Forest Products, down .49 cents (1.44 percent) to $33.45 and UMH Properties, down .15 cents (1.29 percent) to $11.46.
Closing higher were Deer Valley, up .08 cents (13.33 percent making it the day’s biggest gainer) to .68; Third Avenue Value, up .09 cents (.20 percent) to $46.06 and Walker & Dunlop, up .19 cents (1.47 percent) to $13.09.
Not changing were Champion, Liberty, Nobility and Palm Harbor Homes.