The Allstate Corporation is a holding company for Allstate Insurance Co.. Co.'s business is conducted principally through Allstate Insurance Co. and other subsidiaries. It is primarily engaged in the property and casualty insurance business in the U.S. and Canada. It operates through five segments: Allstate Protection, Protection Services, Allstate Health and Benefits, Run-off Property-Liability, and Corporate & Other. The Allstate Protection segment offers private passenger auto, homeowners, other personal lines, and commercial insurance through agents, contact centers and online.
When researching a stock like Allstate, 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 ALL 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 ALL 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 ALL 200 day moving average ("ALL 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the ALL 50 day moving average ("ALL 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Allstate. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the ALL 200 DMA and the ALL 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("ALL MACD"). The ALL 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). |