Lennar Corporation is a homebuilder and an originator of residential and commercial mortgage loans. Co. is also a provider of title insurance and closing services, and a developer of multifamily rental properties. Co.'s segments include Homebuilding East, Homebuilding Central, Homebuilding Texas, Homebuilding West, Financial Services, Multifamily and Lennar others. Its Homebuilding segments primarily include the construction and sale of single-family attached and detached homes, as well as the purchase, development and sale of residential land directly and through its unconsolidated entities.
When researching a stock like Lennar, 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 LEN 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 LEN 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 LEN 200 day moving average ("LEN 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the LEN 50 day moving average ("LEN 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Lennar. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the LEN 200 DMA and the LEN 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("LEN MACD"). The LEN 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). |