Federal Realty Investment Trust is an equity real estate investment trust (REIT). Co. is engaged in ownership, operation and redevelopment of retail-based properties located in coastal markets from Washington, D.C. to Boston as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles. Its portfolio includes retail in many formats ranging from regional, community and neighborhood shopping centers that often are anchored by grocery stores to mixed-use properties that are centered around a retail component but also include office, residential and/or hotel components. These properties are located in metropolitan markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S., California, and South Florida.
When researching a stock like Federal Realty Investment Trust, 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 FRT 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 FRT 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 FRT 200 day moving average ("FRT 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the FRT 50 day moving average ("FRT 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Federal Realty Investment Trust. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the FRT 200 DMA and the FRT 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("FRT MACD"). The FRT 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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