Alliant Energy Corporation operates as a regulated investor-owned public utility holding company. Co.'s primary focus is to provide regulated electric and natural gas service to its customers in the Midwest through its two public utility subsidiaries: Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL) and Wisconsin Power and Light Co. (WPL). Its segments include Utility, and ATC Holdings, Non-utility, Parent and Other. The Utility segment includes the operations of IPL and WPL, which primarily serve retail customers in Iowa and Wisconsin. The Utility segment includes three operations: utility electric operations, utility gas operations and utility other.
When researching a stock like Alliant Energy, 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 LNT 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 LNT 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 LNT 200 day moving average ("LNT 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the LNT 50 day moving average ("LNT 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Alliant Energy. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the LNT 200 DMA and the LNT 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("LNT MACD"). The LNT 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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