Marsh & McLennan is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. Co.'s segments are: Risk and Insurance Services, which includes risk management activities such as risk advice, risk transfer and risk control and mitigation solutions, as well as insurance and reinsurance broking and services; and Consulting, which includes health, wealth and career solutions and products, and other management, strategic, economic and brand consulting services. Co. conducts business in Risk and Insurance Services segment through Marsh and Guy Carpenter. Co. conducts business in Consulting segment through Mercer and Oliver Wyman Group.
When researching a stock like Marsh and McLennan Companies, 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 MMC 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 MMC 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 MMC 200 day moving average ("MMC 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the MMC 50 day moving average ("MMC 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Marsh and McLennan Companies. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the MMC 200 DMA and the MMC 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("MMC MACD"). The MMC 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). |