PCVX Technical Analysis - VAXCYTE INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

Taking everything into account, PCVX scores 6 out of 10 in our technical rating. PCVX 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.

92% of all other stocks performed better in the past year than PCVX.

PCVX is one of the lesser performing stocks in the Biotechnology industry. 70% of 536 stocks in the same industry do better.

PCVX is currently trading in the lower part of its 52 week range, which is not a good signal. Certainly not because the S&P500 Index is trading near new highs.

The short term trend is positive, while the long term trend is neutral. So this is evolving in the right direction.

In the last month PCVX has a been trading in the 30.81 - 43.75 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

PCVX has an average volume of 1671410 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.

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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Setup Rating and Analysis

PCVX has an average technical rating and it also 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

28.71

43.10

3 important support areas can be observed.

Support @31.73 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
Support @30.44 from a trend line in the daily time frame.
Support @29.00 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.

We found 1 important resistance area.

A resistance zone ranging from 42.67 to 42.67. 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 PCVX is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for PCVX is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	8.77	NEGATIVE	PCVX has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 91.23% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of PCVX is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of PCVX is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of PCVX is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	71.72	OVERBOUGHT	The high RSI value suggests PCVX may be overbought.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	1.05	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests PCVX has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	91.82	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests PCVX may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	4.42	MEDIUM VOLATILITY	The ATR as a percentage value for PCVX suggests some volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	31.44	POSITIVE	The high ADX value value for PCVX suggests a strong trend.