What’s happening at United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE:UMC)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 5.02% (or 0.13 points) to $2.72 from its previous close of $2.59. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 946,291 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 628,512 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 613,070 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is 0.14. 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 2.3B outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 60.95% over 52 weeks minimum price of $1.69 and 3.20% under 52 weeks maximum price of $2.81. Also the price is 16.36% greater than 200 day average of $2.34 and 3.47% greater than 50 day average of $2.63.
Looking at the trading signals for United Microelectronics Corporation 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 60.79. According to standard usage, it’s value between 30 and 70 suggests that UMC 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 91.18. 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 -0.02. The MACD is below the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of UMC 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 -0.02. According to standard usage, this is a bullish signal, which suggests that the price of UMC asset is likely to experience upward momentum.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of UMC today are:
- UMC Reports Fourth Quarter 2019 Results, published on Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:04:00 +0000
- UMC Leads all Semiconductor Foundries with CDP "Leadership Level" Designation on Global Climate Change Assessment, published on Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:50:00 +0000
- eMemory and UMC Qualify NeoFuse IP on the Foundry’s 28nm High Voltage Process, published on Mon, 20 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000