What’s happening at TC PipeLines, LP (NYSE:TCP)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 20.52% (or 5.93 points) to $34.83 from its previous close of $28.90. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 1,083,876 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 663,957 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 364,175 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is 3.75. 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 positive and tells you exactly how much money the company earned per share of its 71.3M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 20.52% over 52 weeks minimum price of $28.90 and 21.99% under 52 weeks maximum price of $44.65. Also the price is -12.82% less than 200 day average of $39.95 and -13.07% less than 50 day average of $40.06.
At post-market close the stock price was $34.83, therefore remaining unchanged with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for TC PipeLines, LP 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 39.73. According to standard usage, it’s value between 30 and 70 suggests that TCP stock is currently neutral, and shares are stable in terms of price movement. The stochastic oscillator reading, another momentum indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, stands at 45.83. According to standard usage, it’s value between 20 and 80 suggests that shares are stable in terms of price movement. 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 -1.60. The MACD is below the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of TCP is below that of the long-term average, thus implying a downward momentum. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at -0.92. According to standard usage, this is a bearish signal which indicates that it may be time to sell your TCP stocks.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of TCP today are:
- Edited Transcript of TCP earnings conference call or presentation 20-Feb-20 4:00pm GMT, published on Thu, 27 Feb 2020 02:59:16 +0000
- TC PipeLines (TCP) Q4 Earnings & Sales Fall Y/Y on High CapEx, published on Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:08:03 +0000
- TC PipeLines, LP announces filing of 2019 annual report on form 10-K and availability of audited financial statements, published on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:39:38 +0000