What’s happening at Tesla, Inc. (NasdaqGS:TSLA)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 11.32% (or 75.63 points) to $743.62 from its previous close of $667.99. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 20,194,991 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 19,248,250 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 18,055,745 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is -4.92. 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 184.4M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 320.15% over 52 weeks minimum price of $176.99 and 23.26% under 52 weeks maximum price of $968.99. Also the price is 83.93% greater than 200 day average of $404.30 and 6.45% greater than 50 day average of $698.57.
At post-market close the stock price was $769.91, thus increasing a further 3.54% (or 26.29 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for Tesla, Inc. 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 51.75. According to standard usage, it’s value between 30 and 70 suggests that TSLA 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 39.64. 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 36.98. The MACD is above the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of TSLA 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 64.17. According to standard usage, this is a bearish signal which indicates that it may be time to sell your TSLA stocks.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of TSLA today are:
- For Elon Musk, Success is Proving Elusive in Japan’s Car Market, published on Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:00:00 +0000
- Tesla’s stock bounces, but Morgan Stanley says it’s still a sell, published on Tue, 03 Mar 2020 02:54:00 +0000
- Musk tweets support for Dorsey remaining as Twitter CEO, published on Tue, 03 Mar 2020 02:33:02 +0000