Citizens Financial Group is a bank holding company and a financial holding company. Through its banking subsidiary, Citizens Bank, National Association, Co. manages its business through two business segments: Consumer Banking, which provides deposit products, mortgage and home equity lending, credit cards, business loans, wealth management and investment services; and Commercial Banking, which provides lending and leasing, deposit and treasury management services, foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity risk management solutions, as well as syndicated loans, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity capital markets capabilities.
When researching a stock like Citizens Financial Group, 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 CFG 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 CFG 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 CFG 200 day moving average ("CFG 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the CFG 50 day moving average ("CFG 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Citizens Financial Group. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the CFG 200 DMA and the CFG 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("CFG MACD"). The CFG 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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