EFX Technical Analysis - EQUIFAX INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

We assign a technical rating of 4 out of 10 to EFX. EFX has been a bad performer in the overall market. Some doubts are observed in the medium term time frame, but recent action was again very positive.

When comparing the yearly performance of all stocks, EFX is a bad performer in the overall market: 82% of all stocks are doing better.

The long term trend is still neutral, but the short term trend is positive, so the stock is getting more and more appreciated by traders and investors.

In the last month EFX has a been trading in the 233.74 - 262.37 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

EFX has an average volume of 1056610 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.

EFX is part of the Professional Services industry. There are 82 other stocks in this industry, EFX did better than 54% of them.

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

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Setup Rating and Analysis

EFX has an average technical rating and the quality of the presented setup is also not ideal 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

214.04

283.36

4 important support areas can be observed.

A support zone ranging from 248.22 to 252.61. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
A support zone ranging from 234.02 to 239.80. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Support @225.24 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.
Support @216.20 from a horizontal line in the weekly time frame.

We can see 2 important resistance areas.

Resistance @264.84 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.
A resistance zone ranging from 273.67 to 280.55. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines 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 EFX is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for EFX is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	18.97	NEGATIVE	EFX has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 81.03% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of EFX is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	MIXED	The current price of EFX is above a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of EFX is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	56.68	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for EFX is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	1.67	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests EFX has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	83.99	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests EFX may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	2.51	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for EFX suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	15.78	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for EFX suggests a weak or negative trend.