The Chart of the Day belongs to the business services company Fair Isaac (FICO) . 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.
Fair Isaac Corporation develops analytic, software, and data decisioning technologies and services that enable businesses to automate, enhance, and connect decisions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Scores and Software. The Software segment provides pre-configured analytic and decision management solution designed for various business needs or processes, such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, financial crimes compliance, and marketing, as well as associated professional services. This segment also offers FICO Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by customers to address a wide range of business use cases. The Scores segment provides business-to-business scoring solutions and services for consumers that give clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes, as well as business-to-consumer scoring solutions comprising myFICO.com subscription offerings. Fair Isaac Corporation markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales organization and indirect channels, as well as online. The company was formerly known as Fair Isaac & Company, Inc. and changed its name to Fair Isaac Corporation in July 1992. Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.
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Barchart Technical Indicators:
- 100% technical buy signals
- 83.72+ Weighted Alpha
- 124.53% gain in the last year
- Trend Seeker buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 4 new highs and up .91% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 60.61%
- Technical support level at $907.78
- Recently traded at $919.26 with 50 day moving average of $882.91
Fundamental Factors:
- Market Cap $22.78 billion
- P/E 59.21
- Revenue expected to grow10.00% this year and another 10.80% next year
- Earning estimated to increase 16.50% this year, and an additional 17.50% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 17.85% for the next 5 years
Analysts and Investor Sentiment -- I don't buy stocks because everyone else is buying but I do realize that if major firms and investors are dumping a stock it's hard to make money swimming against the tide:
- Wall Street analyst gave 4 strong buy, 2 buy and 2 hold opinions on the stock
- Analysts' price targets are between $729 and $1,100 with a consensus of $955
- Value Line rates it an average 2
- CFRAs MarketScope rates it a Hold
- 8,670 investors monitor the stock on Seeking Alpha
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