Align Technology, Inc. is a global medical device company that designs, manufactures, and sells the Invisalign system of clear aligners, iTero intraoral scanners, and exocad computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software for digital orthodontics and restorative dentistry. Co. provides Align Digital Platform. Its segments include Clear Aligner, and Imaging Systems and CAD/CAM Services (Systems and Services). The Clear Aligner segment consists of comprehensive products, non-comprehensive products and non-case products. Its comprehensive products include Invisalign Comprehensive and Invisalign First.
When researching a stock like Align Technology, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from ALGN Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for ALGN stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the ALGN 200 day moving average ("ALGN 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the ALGN 50 day moving average ("ALGN 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Align Technology. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the ALGN 200 DMA and the ALGN 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("ALGN MACD"). The ALGN MACD chart, in conjunction with the chart of the moving averages, basically helps in visualizing how the moving averages are showing convergence (moving closer together), or divergence (moving farther apart). |