The Chart of the Day belongs to the German software company SAP (SAP) . 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 on 3/16 the stock gained 6.99%.
SAP SE, together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise application software products worldwide. The company operates through Applications, Technology & Services; Qualtrics; Business Network; and Sustainability segments. It offers SAP S/4HANA that offers software capabilities for finance, risk and project management, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and asset management, and research and development; SAP SuccessFactors solutions for human resources, including HR and payroll, talent and employee experience management, and people and workforce analytics; spend management solutions that covers direct and indirect spend, travel and expense, and external workforce management. The company also provides SAP customer experience solutions; SAP Business Technology platform that enables customers and partners to build, integrate, and extend applications in a cloud-native way; and SAP Business Network that enables companies to collaborate with trading partners for supply chain visibility. In addition, it offers SAP Signavio help customers to scan their operations to understand and improve their business process landscape; Experience Management solutions; SAP's industry cloud solutions that provides modular solutions addressing industry-specific functions; and sustainability-related solutions. SAP SE was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.
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Barchart Technical Indicators:
- 100% technical buy signals
- 32.00+Weighted Alpha
- 17.32% gain in the last year
- Trend Seeker buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 11 new highs and up 7.50% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 68.94%
- Recently traded at $128.71 with 50 day moving average of $119.35
Fundamental Factors:
- Market Cap $150 billion
- P/E 59.17
- Dividend yield 1.62%
- Revenue expected to grow 6.60% this year and another 7.70% next year
- Earnings are estimated to increase 34.40% this year, an additional 15.60% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 16.84% 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 analysts issued 10 strong buy, 10 buy, 8 hold and 3 sell opinions on the stock
- Their price targets are $125.71 to $170.97 with a consensus of $135.58 about another 5% gain
- The individual investors following the stock on Motley Fool voted 337 to 49 for the stock to beat the market with the more experienced investors voting 69 to 8 for the same result
- Value Line gives it their average rating of 3
- CFRAs MarketScope has a hold rating
- 45,650 investors monitor the stock on Seeking Alpha
Disclosure: I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, but may initiate a beneficial Long position through a purchase of the stock, or the purchase of call options or similar derivatives in the next 72 hours.
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