State Street Corporation is a financial holding company. Co., through its subsidiary, State Street Bank and Trust Co. (State Street Bank), provides a range of financial products and services to institutional investors. It operates through two lines of business: Investment Servicing and Investment Management. Its Investment Servicing, through State Street Investment Services, State Street Global Markets, State Street Alpha, and State Street Digital, provides investment services for clients, including mutual funds, collective investment funds and other investment pools. Its products include back-office products, such as custody, accounting, investor services and others.
When researching a stock like State Street, 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 STT 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 STT 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 STT 200 day moving average ("STT 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the STT 50 day moving average ("STT 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for State Street. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the STT 200 DMA and the STT 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("STT MACD"). The STT 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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