General Dynamics Corporation is a global aerospace and defense company. Co. offers a portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions, and technology products and services. Co.'s segments include Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems and Technologies. The Aerospace segment produces business jets and the standard bearer in new technology aircraft, aircraft repair, support, and completion services. The Marine Systems segment designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines and offers in surface combatants and auxiliary ship design and construction for the U.S. Navy.
When researching a stock like General Dynamics, 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 GD 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 GD 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 GD 200 day moving average ("GD 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the GD 50 day moving average ("GD 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for General Dynamics. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the GD 200 DMA and the GD 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("GD MACD"). The GD 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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