Bio-Rad Laboratories is a manufacturer and distributor of its own life science research and clinical diagnostics products. Co. manufactures and supplies the life science research, healthcare, analytical chemistry and other markets with a range of products and systems used to separate chemical and biological materials and to identify, analyze and purify their components. Co. operates in two segments: Life Science, which develops, manufactures and markets a portfolio of various products; and Clinical Diagnostics, which designs, manufactures, markets and supports test systems, informatics systems, test kits and quality controls that serve clinical laboratories in the diagnostics market.
When researching a stock like Bio-Rad Laboratories, 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 BIO 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 BIO 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 BIO 200 day moving average ("BIO 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the BIO 50 day moving average ("BIO 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Bio-Rad Laboratories. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the BIO 200 DMA and the BIO 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("BIO MACD"). The BIO 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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