What’s happening at Banco Macro S.A. (NYSE:BMA)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 7.57% (or 1.87 points) to $26.58 from its previous close of $24.71. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 434,084 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 301,920 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 333,696 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is -0.07. This value shows how much money a company makes for each share of its stock. A higher EPS indicates more value because investors will pay more for a company with higher profits. This is negative and tells you exactly how much money the company lost per share of its 98.5M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 114.70% over 52 weeks minimum price of $12.38 and 4.94% under 52 weeks maximum price of $27.96. Also the price is 33.99% greater than 200 day average of $19.84 and 5.95% greater than 50 day average of $25.09.
At post-market close the stock price was $26.65, thus increasing a further 0.26% (or 0.07 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for Banco Macro S.A. over last 6 months of daily time series of prices, the two-week relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator that measures the size of recent changes of price to evaluate overbought or oversold conditions, stands at 0. According to standard usage, it’s value less than 30 indicates that BMA is becoming oversold or undervalued and may be preparing for a trend reversal or corrective pushback in price. The stochastic oscillator reading, another momentum indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, stands at 0. According to standard usage, it’s value less than 20 is considered in the oversold range. But let’s keep in mind that even stochastic readings very close to thresholds are not indicative of imminent reversal. In fact very strong trends can maintain overbought or oversold conditions for an extended period, but changes in the stochastic oscillator might suggest future trend shifts.
Another important signal comes from the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), a trend-following momentum indicator. It helps investors understand whether the bullish or bearish movement in the price is strengthening or weakening. Traders keep constatly an eye on the move of the MACD above or below the zero line due to the fact that the reading is an indicator of the position of the 12-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) relative to the 26-period EMA. It currently stands at 0. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at 0.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of BMA today are:
- Banco Macro S.A. (NYSE:BMA) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript, published on Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:21:37 +0000
- Banco Macro S.A. announces that it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire Banco Itaú Argentina S.A. and its subsidiaries, published on Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:57:00 +0000
- UPDATE 2-Brazilian bank Itau to sell Argentine business to Banco Macro, published on Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:44:20 +0000