We assign a technical rating of 0 out of 10 to ILMN. ILMN scores bad on all fronts: it is a bad performer in the overall market and both the medium and short term pictures are negative.
The short term trend is negative, as is the long term trend. There should be more interesting stocks out there.
When comparing the yearly performance of all stocks, ILMN is a bad performer in the overall market: 90% of all stocks are doing better.
ILMN is one of the lesser performing stocks in the Life Sciences Tools & Services industry. 61% of 55 stocks in the same industry do better.
ILMN is currently trading near the lower end of its 52 week range, which is not a good sign. ILMN is lagging the S&P500 Index which is trading in the middle of its 52 week range.
Considerably lower volume is observed in the last couple of days, which is not what you would like to see during a strong up movement.
ILMN has an average volume of 2602260 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.
In the last month ILMN has a been trading in the 68.70 - 82.76 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading in the middle of this range, so some resistance may be found above.