The Chart of the Day belongs to the engineering and R&D software company Altair Engineering (ALTR) . I found the stock by using Barchart's powerful screening functions to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, highest Weighted Alpha, superior current momentum and having a Trend Seeker buy signal then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation. Since the Trend Seeker signaled a buy on1/11 the stock gained 43.3%.
Altair Engineering Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-performance computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments: Software and Client Engineering Services. The Software segment offers solvers and optimization technology products, high-performance computing software applications and hardware products, modeling and visualization tools, data analytics and analysis products, and Internet of Things platform and analytics tools, as well as support and the complementary software products. This segment also provides software technologies in the areas of computational fluid dynamics and fatigue, manufacturing process simulation, and cost estimation for the applications in marine, motorcycle, aerospace, chemical, and architecture industries; and software-related services, such as consulting, implementation, and training services that focuses on the product design and development expertise and analysis from the component level up to complete product engineering at various stage of the lifecycle. The Client Engineering Services segment provides client engineering services. In addition, the company is involved in the development and sale of solid state lighting technology along with communication and control protocols based on its intellectual property for the direct replacement of fluorescent light tubes with LED lamps. Its integrated suite of software optimizes design performance across various disciplines, including structures, motion, fluids, thermal management, electromagnetics, system modeling, and embedded systems. The company serves universities, government agencies, manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms, banking, financial services, and insurance, weather prediction agencies, and electronics design companies. Altair Engineering Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.
Barchart Technical Indicators:
- 100% technical buy signals
- 31.35+Weighted Alpha
- 10.63% gain in the last year
- Trend Seeker buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 11 new highs and up 10.52% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 71.59%
- Recently traded at $70.80 with 50 day moving average of $61.17
Fundamental Factors:
- Market Cap $5.60 billion
- P/E 1,739
- Revenue expected to grow 8.10% this year and another 8.30% next year
- Earnings are estimated to increase 11.20% this year and an additional 18.20% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 50.17% for the next 5 years
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