Alphabet Inc. is a holding company. Co.'s segments include Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. The Google Services segment includes products and services such as ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Google Maps, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. The Google Cloud segment includes infrastructure and platform services, collaboration tools, and other services for enterprise customers. Its Other Bets segment is engaged in the sale of healthcare-related services and Internet services. Its Google Cloud provides enterprise-ready cloud services, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace.
When researching a stock like Alphabet, 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 GOOG 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 GOOG 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 GOOG 200 day moving average ("GOOG 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the GOOG 50 day moving average ("GOOG 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Alphabet. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the GOOG 200 DMA and the GOOG 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("GOOG MACD"). The GOOG 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). |
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