PSO Technical Analysis - PEARSON PLC-SPONSORED ADR

Technical Rating and Analysis

Taking everything into account, PSO scores 2 out of 10 in our technical rating. PSO has been an average performer in the overall market. Also recent evolutions are not that positive: both the medium and short term time frames give negative signs.

The short term trend is neutral, while the long term trend is still negative. We need to see a little more continued positive action to make this really interesting.

PSO 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.

When comparing the performance of all stocks over the past year, PSO turns out to be only a medium performer in the overall market: it outperformed 40% of all stocks.

PSO is part of the Diversified Consumer Services industry. There are 75 other stocks in this industry, PSO did better than 47% of them.

In the last month PSO has a been trading in a tight range between 13.83 and 14.46.

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Technical Analysis

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Setup Rating and Analysis

PSO has a poor technical rating and the quality of the setup is also not perfect 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

13.71

15.82

We found 1 important support area.

A support zone ranging from 13.85 to 14.10. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.

When analyzing the resistance we notice 2 important areas.

A resistance zone ranging from 14.91 to 15.10. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Resistance @15.66 from a trend line in the weekly 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	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The long term trend for PSO is down.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The short term trend for PSO is neutral.
ChartMill Relative Strength	40.94	NEUTRAL	PSO is not amongst the best or worst performers on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of PSO is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of PSO is below a declining SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	DOWN	NEGATIVE	The current price of PSO is below a declining SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	50.24	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for PSO is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	0.03	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests PSO has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	56.68	NEUTRAL	The Stochastics value for PSO is a neutral value.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.18	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for PSO suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	17.54	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for PSO suggests a weak or negative trend.