What’s happening at Telecom Argentina S.A. (NYSE:TEO)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 22.28% (or 1.19 points) to $6.53 from its previous close of $5.34. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 1,052,299 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 38,760 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 82,217 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is 1.76. 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 430.7M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 64.48% over 52 weeks minimum price of $3.97 and 5.09% under 52 weeks maximum price of $6.88. Also the price is 20.29% greater than 200 day average of $5.43 and 24.48% greater than 50 day average of $5.25.
At post-market close the stock price was $6.70, thus increasing a further 2.60% (or 0.17 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for Telecom Argentina 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 71.56. According to standard usage, it’s value greater than 70 indicates that TEO is becoming overbought or overvalued and may be preparing for a trend reversal or corrective pullback in price. The stochastic oscillator reading, another momentum indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, stands at 90.66. According to standard usage, it’s value greater than 80 is considered in the overbought 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 0.08. The MACD is above the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of TEO is above that of the long-term average, thus implying an upward momentum. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at 0.02. According to standard usage, this is a bullish signal, which suggests that the price of TEO asset is likely to experience upward momentum.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of TEO today are:
- Argentina Stocks in U.S. Jump on Milei Victory, published on Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:11:36 +0000
- Telecom Argentina S.A. Announces Consolidated Results for the Nine-Month Period (“9M23”) and Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 (“3Q23”)**, published on Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:10:00 +0000
- Telecom Argentina S.A. (NYSE:TEO) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript, published on Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:34:23 +0000