Invitation Homes Inc. is a real estate investment trust that conducts its operations through Invitation Homes Operating Partnership LP (INVH LP). INVH LP is engaged in owning, renovating, leasing, and operating single-family residential properties. Through THR Property Management L.P., a subsidiary of INVH LP, and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, the Manager), it provides all management and other administrative services. The Manager provides professional property and asset management services to portfolio owners of single-family homes for lease.
When researching a stock like Invitation Homes, 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 INVH 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 INVH 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 INVH 200 day moving average ("INVH 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the INVH 50 day moving average ("INVH 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Invitation Homes. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the INVH 200 DMA and the INVH 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("INVH MACD"). The INVH 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). |