The Barchart Chart of the Day belongs to the semi conductor company Cree(CREE). I found the stock by using Barchart to sort it's Top Stocks to Own list first by the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then I used the the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 1/3 the stock gained 72.92%.
Cree, Inc. is a market-leading innovator and manufacturer of semiconductors that enhance the value of solid-state lighting, power and communications products by significantly increasing their energy performance and efficiency. Key to Cree's market advantage is its world-class materials expertise in silicon carbide and gallium nitride for chips and packaged devices that can handle more power in a smaller space while producing less heat than other available technologies, materials and products. Cree drives its increased performance technology into multiple applications, including exciting alternatives in brighter and more-tunable light for general illumination, backlighting for more-vivid displays, optimized power management for high-current switch-mode power supplies and variable-speed motors, and more-effective wireless infrastructure for data and voice communications. Cree customers range from innovative lighting-fixtures makers to defense-related federal agencies.
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Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% technical buy signals
- 94.61+ Weighted Alpha
- 74.45% gain in the last year
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 18 new highs and up 21.51% in the last year
- Relative Strength Index 84.49%
- Technical support level at 67.43
- Recently traded at 68.75 with a 50 day moving average of 57.76
Fundamental factors:
- Market Cap $7.01 billion
- P/E 354.91
- Revenue expected to decrease 7.20% this year and another 5.50% next year
- Earnings estimated to increase 321.10% this year, an additional 61.20% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 112.26% for the next 5 years
- Wall Street analysts issued 5 strong buy, 4 hold and 1 sell recommendation
- The individual investors following the stock on Motley Fool voted 1071 to 89 that the stock will beat the market
- 25,871 investors are following the stock on Seeking Alpha
