PFV Technical Analysis - PFEIFFER VACUUM TECHNOLOGY

Technical Rating and Analysis

Overall PFV gets a technical rating of 3 out of 10. In the past year, PFV was a below average performing stock in the market. The medium term picture is also negative, but we see some improvement happening in recent action.

74% of all other stocks performed better in the past year than PFV.

Warning: PFV has an average volume of 1956 traded shares per day. This is quite low and it might be dangerous to invest in illiquid stocks.

The long and short term trends are both neutral. This gives a pretty neutral overall picture!

PFV is part of the Machinery industry. There are 103 other stocks in this industry, PFV did better than 54% of them.

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

In the last month PFV has a been trading in a tight range between 154.00 and 158.60.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

Although the technical rating is bad, PFV does present a nice setup opportunity. Prices have been consolidating lately and the volatility has been reduced. There is a support zone below the current price at 154.80, a Stop Loss order could be placed below this zone.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

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We found 2 important support areas.

A support zone ranging from 154.00 to 154.80. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
A support zone ranging from 149.79 to 149.80. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.

We found 1 important resistance area.

A resistance zone ranging from 155.24 to 162.21. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages 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 PFV.DE is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The short term trend for PFV.DE is neutral.
ChartMill Relative Strength	26.83	NEGATIVE	PFV.DE has a low relative strength, it was outperformed by 73.17% off all stocks on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	MIXED	The current price of PFV.DE is below the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	MIXED	The current price of PFV.DE is below the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	MIXED	The current price of PFV.DE is below the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	47.32	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for PFV.DE is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	-0.08	NEGATIVE	The MACD value suggests PFV.DE has a negative trend, although the MACD value is rising.
Stochastics (14,3)	16.67	OVERSOLD	The low Stochastics value suggests PFV.DE may be oversold.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	0.81	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for PFV.DE suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	16.21	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for PFV.DE suggests a weak or negative trend.