Chart of the Day: Casey's General Stores - Pumping Profits
The Chart of the Day belongs to the convenience stores operator Casey's General Stores (CASY) . 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 2/9 the stock gained 9.52%.
Casey's General Stores, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates convenience stores under the Casey's and Casey's General Store names. Its stores offer pizza, donuts, breakfast items, and sandwiches; and tobacco and nicotine products. The company's stores provide soft drinks, energy, water, sports drinks, juices, coffee, and tea and dairy products; beer, wine, and spirits; snacks, candy, packaged bakery, and other food items; ice, ice cream, meals, and appetizers; health and beauty aids, automotive products, electronic accessories, housewares, and pet supplies; and ATM, lotto/lottery, and prepaid cards. In addition, its stores offer motor fuel for sale on a self-service basis; and gasoline and diesel fuel, as well as car wash services. Casey's General Stores, Inc. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa.
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Barchart Technical Indicators:
- 100% technical buy signals
- 50.10+ Weighted Alpha
- 47.15% gain in the last year
- Trend Seeker buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 17 new highs and up 14.05% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 80.58%
- Technical support level at $304.90
- Recently traded at $313.70 with 50 day moving average of $284.11
Fundamental Factors:
- Market Cap 11.39 billion
- P/E 24.15
- Dividend yield .54%
- Wall Street projects Revenue will decrease .10% this year but grow another 4.80% next year
- Earnings are estimated to increase 10.30% this year, increase an additional 7.40% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 10.76% 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 7 strong buy, 1 buy, and 6 hold recommendations this month
- Analysts price targets are $263 to $344 - consensus price target $310
- The individual investors following the stock on Motley Fool voted 263 to 14 for the stock to beat the market with the most experienced investors voting 55 to 2 for the same result
- Value Line rates the stock it's above average rating of 2 and has a price target of $338 for an 10% gain
- CFRAs MarketScope has a buy rating
- 8,810 investors monitor the stock on Seeking Alpha
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