AOS Technical Analysis - SMITH (A.O.) CORP

Technical Rating and Analysis

We assign a technical rating of 1 out of 10 to AOS. AOS performed below average in the overall market. Although the medium term picture in unclear, the short term picture is clearly negative.

When comparing the yearly performance of all stocks, AOS is a bad performer in the overall market: 75% of all stocks are doing better.

The short term trend is negative, the long term trend is neutral. Not much exciting going on here.

AOS is part of the Building Products industry. There are 41 other stocks in this industry, AOS did better than 62% of them.

AOS is currently trading in the middle of its 52 week range. The S&P500 Index however is currently trading near new highs, so AOS is lagging the market.

In the last month AOS has a been trading in the 67.24 - 73.97 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading in the middle of this range, so some resistance may be found above.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

AOS has a poor technical rating and the quality of the setup is also not perfect at the moment. Price movement has been a little bit too volatile to find a nice entry and exit point. It is probably a good idea to wait for a consolidation first.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

61.37

75.04

When analyzing the support we can see 3 important areas.

A support zone ranging from 67.24 to 67.90. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in the daily time frame.
Support @65.16 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
A support zone ranging from 61.99 to 61.99. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in the weekly time frame.

When analyzing the resistance we notice one important area.

A resistance zone ranging from 69.72 to 74.30. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.

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Technical Indicator Signal Analysis

The Technical Rating and Setup analysis above combine different indicators and trends in different timeframes. Individual signals from indicators may give more contradictive signals and should always be interpreted in the more global context.

Indicator	Value	Signal	Comment
ChartMill Long Term Trend Indicator	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The long term trend for AOS is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The short term trend for AOS is down.
ChartMill Relative Strength	25.64	NEGATIVE	AOS has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 74.36% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of AOS is below a declining SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of AOS is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of AOS is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	42.48	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for AOS is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-0.28	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests AOS has a negative trend, although the MACD value is rising.
Stochastics (14,3)	32.49	NEUTRAL	The Stochastics value for AOS is a neutral value.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.69	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for AOS suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	26.23	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for AOS suggests a strong trend.