The “Chart of the Day” is Costco Wholesale (COST), which showed up on Monday’s Barchart “All Time High” list. Costco on Monday posted a new all-time high of $92.10 and closed up 1.15%. TrendSpotter has been Long since Feb 3 at $85.36. In recent news on the stock, William Blair on March 5 upgraded Costco to Outperform from Market Perform. Costco on Feb 29 reported fiscal Q2 EPS at 90 cents, above the consensus of 87 cents. Costco, with a market cap of $39 billion, operates membership warehouses based on the concept that offering members very low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private label products in a wide range of merchandise categories will produce high sales volumes and rapid inventory turnover.

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How we found the Chart of the Day:

We found the “Chart of the Day” by scanning the Barchart “All Time High” list. In order to get to that list, we first clicked on the Stocks menu item on the Barchart home page, then on the “All Time Highs” menu item on the left menu bar. We then sorted the list by percentage gainers by clicking on the “Percent” column title. A stock that has posted a new All-Time high is typically showing strong upside momentum.

The status of Barchart’s Opinion trading systems are listed below. Please note that the Barchart Opinion indicators are updated live during the session every 10 minutes and can therefore change during the day as the market fluctuates. The indicator numbers shown below therefore may not match what you see live on the Barchart.com web site when you read this report.

  • TrendSpotter: Buy
  • Short-Term Indicators: 80% Buy
  • Medium-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
  • Long-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
  • Overall Average 96% Buy

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