The Barchart Chart of the Day belongs to Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage(NGVC). I found the specialty grocer by using Barchart to sort today's Top Stocks to Own first by the highest Weighted Alpha then I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation in the last 6 months. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 5/7 the stock gained 84.87%.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage is a specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries and dietary supplements. The Company provides healthy foods, vitamins, and supplements including allergy, aloe products, amino acids, antioxidants, animal products, beverages, medical, cleansing and clearance, weight loss, electrolytes, energy, cosmetics, natural, minerals, vitamins, pain relief, and supplements. It has locations primarily in Colorado, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico, Montana, Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska and Arizona. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage is based in Lakewood, Colorado.
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 website when you read this report.
Barchart technical indicators:
- 100% technical buy signals
- 174.77+ Weighted Alpha
- 110.25% gain in the last year
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 13 new highs and up 46.90% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 89.45%
- Recently traded at 14.03 with a 50 day moving average of 11.50
Fundamental factors:
- Market Cap $350 million
- P/E 48.14
- Revenue expected to grow 8.90% this year and another 6.10% next year
- Earnings estimated to increase 11.50% next year
- Wall Street analysts presently have 1 strong buy and 6 hold recommendations in place on the stock
