IESC Technical Analysis - IES HOLDINGS INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall IESC gets a technical rating of 7 out of 10. In the last year, IESC was one of the better performers, but we do observe some doubts in the very recent evolution.

The long term trend is positive and the short term trend is neutral. The long term trend gets the benefit of the doubt for now.

IESC is part of the Construction & Engineering industry. There are 54 other stocks in this industry. IESC outperforms 81% of them.

IESC 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.

Looking at the yearly performance, IESC did better than 90% of all other stocks. However, this overall performance is mostly based on the strong move around 4 months ago.

In the last month IESC has a been trading in the 356.68 - 405.00 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

Although IESC has an excellent technical rating, it does not present a decent entry opportunity 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

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404.01

We found 2 important support areas.

Support @321.58 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
Support @180.94 from a trend line in the weekly time frame.

When analyzing the resistance we notice 2 important areas.

A resistance zone ranging from 384.35 to 392.86. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Resistance @400.01 from a horizontal line in the daily 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 IESC is up.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The short term trend for IESC is neutral.
ChartMill Relative Strength	90.08	POSITIVE	IESC has a high relative strength, it outperformed 90.08% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of IESC is below a declining SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	MIXED	The current price of IESC is below the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of IESC is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	42.57	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for IESC is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-2.77	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests IESC has a negative trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	57.35	NEUTRAL	The Stochastics value for IESC is a neutral value.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	4.76	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for IESC suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	16.65	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for IESC suggests a weak or negative trend.