What’s happening at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NasdaqGS:WBA)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 6.47% (or 3.21 points) to $52.81 from its previous close of $49.60. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 14,831,136 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 10,612,228 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 6,340,531 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is 4.08. 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 885.9M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 30.33% over 52 weeks minimum price of $40.52 and 18.12% under 52 weeks maximum price of $64.50. Also the price is -3.80% less than 200 day average of $54.89 and 5.66% greater than 50 day average of $49.98.
At post-market close the stock price was $53.60, thus increasing a further 1.50% (or 0.79 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for Walgreens Boots Alliance, 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 56.96. According to standard usage, it’s value between 30 and 70 suggests that WBA 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 98.48. 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 -0.96. The MACD is below the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of WBA 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 -1.50. According to standard usage, this is a bullish signal, which suggests that the price of WBA asset is likely to experience upward momentum.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of WBA today are:
- Kroger, Walgreens and Walmart Climb as Investors Seek Defensive Stocks, published on Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:50:00 +0000
- Walgreens Announces Temporary Changes to Store Operating Hours, published on Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:30:00 +0000
- Walgreens Boots Stock Falls 4%, published on Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:32:00 +0000