CenturyLink, via its subsidiaries, is a communications company engaged in providing an array of integrated services to its business and residential customers. Co.'s segments include: International and Global Accounts Management, which provides products and services to global enterprise customers; Enterprise, which provides products and services to regional domestic and global enterprises; Small and Medium Business, which provides products and services to small and medium businesses directly and through its indirect channel partners; and Wholesale, which provides products and services to other communication providers across the wireline, wireless, cable, voice and data center sectors.
When researching a stock like CenturyLink, 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 CTL 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 CTL 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 CTL 200 day moving average ("CTL 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the CTL 50 day moving average ("CTL 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for CenturyLink. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the CTL 200 DMA and the CTL 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("CTL MACD"). The CTL 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). |