BWXT Technical Analysis - BWX TECHNOLOGIES INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall BWXT gets a technical rating of 10 out of 10. Both in the recent history as in the last year, BWXT 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, BWXT did better than 92% of all other stocks. On top of that, BWXT also shows a nice and consistent pattern of rising prices.

BWXT is one of the better performing stocks in the Aerospace & Defense industry, it outperforms 82% of 69 stocks in the same industry.

BWXT is currently trading near its 52 week high, which is a good sign. The S&P500 Index however is also trading near new highs, which makes the performance in line with the market.

In the last month BWXT has a been trading in the 170.88 - 214.72 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.

BWXT has an average volume of 1198880 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.

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Technical Analysis

Relative Strength

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Weekly and Daily overview Charts

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Setup Rating and Analysis

Although BWXT 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

87.53

205.15

3 important support areas can be observed.

A support zone ranging from 189.76 to 190.07. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in the daily time frame.
Support @182.93 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
Support @88.41 from a horizontal 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 BWXT is up.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for BWXT is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	92.46	POSITIVE	BWXT has a high relative strength, it outperformed 92.46% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of BWXT is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of BWXT is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of BWXT is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	67.27	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for BWXT is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	1.19	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests BWXT has a positive trend, although the MACD value is declining.
Stochastics (14,3)	73.31	NEUTRAL	The Stochastics value for BWXT is a neutral value.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	3.55	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for BWXT suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	39.78	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for BWXT suggests a strong trend.