What’s happening at Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 6.33% (or 17.37 points) to $291.77 from its previous close of $274.40. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 1,400,324 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 752,650 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 632,741 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is 11.46. 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 59.0M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 17.56% over 52 weeks minimum price of $248.18 and 17.51% under 52 weeks maximum price of $353.71. Also the price is -4.01% less than 200 day average of $303.96 and 9.35% greater than 50 day average of $266.81.
At post-market close the stock price was $288.87, thus decreasing -0.99% (or -2.90 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for Waters 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 0. According to standard usage, it’s value less than 30 indicates that WAT is becoming oversold or undervalued and may be preparing for a trend reversal or corrective pushback in price. The stochastic oscillator reading, another momentum indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, stands at 0. According to standard usage, it’s value less than 20 is considered in the oversold 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. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at 0.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of WAT today are:
- Waters Corp (WAT): A High-Performing Stock with a GF Score of 94, published on Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:42:24 +0000
- Waters (WAT) Q2 Earnings & Sales Beat Estimates, Rise Y/Y, published on Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:09:00 +0000
- Is Waters Corp (WAT) Modestly Undervalued? A Thorough GF Value Analysis, published on Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:33:42 +0000