BBW Technical Analysis - BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall BBW gets a technical rating of 10 out of 10. Both in the recent history as in the last year, BBW has proven to be a steady performer, scoring decent points in every aspect analyzed.

Both the short term and long term trends are positive. This is a very positive sign.

Looking at the yearly performance, BBW did better than 96% of all other stocks. We also observe that the gains produced by BBW over the past year are nicely spread over this period.

BBW is part of the Specialty Retail industry. There are 123 other stocks in this industry. BBW outperforms 95% of them.

A new 52 week high is currently being made by BBW, which is a very good signal! However, this is in line with the S&P500, which is also trading near new highs.

In the last month BBW has a been trading in the 52.54 - 75.24 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

Volume is considerably higher in the last couple of days, which is what you like to see during a strong movement up.

Prices have been rising strongly lately, it may be a good idea to wait for a consolidation or pullback before considering an entry.

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BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC / BBW Daily stock chart

Setup Rating and Analysis

Although BBW has an excellent technical rating, it does not offer a high quality setup 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

39.16

74.72

4 important support areas can be observed.

Support @60.40 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
A support zone ranging from 56.01 to 56.76. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Support @40.72 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
Support @39.56 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.

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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	UP	POSITIVE	The long term trend for BBW is up.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for BBW is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	96.04	POSITIVE	BBW has a high relative strength, it outperformed 96.04% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of BBW is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of BBW is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of BBW is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	72.3	OVERBOUGHT	The high RSI value suggests BBW may be overbought.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	1.39	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests BBW has a positive trend, although the MACD value is declining.
Stochastics (14,3)	94.31	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests BBW may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	5.12	HIGH VOLATILITY	The high ATR as a percentage value for BBW suggests high volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	50.64	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for BBW suggests a strong trend.