Tiffany & Co. is a holding company that operates through its principal subsidiary, Tiffany and Company and Co.'s other subsidiary companies. Through its subsidiaries, Co. designs and manufactures products and operates TIFFANY & CO. retail stores worldwide, and also sells its products through Internet, catalog, business-to-business and wholesale distribution. Co.'s principal product category is jewelry. Co. provides a selection of TIFFANY & CO. brand jewelry at a range of prices. Co. also sells watches, home and accessories products and fragrances. Co. has four reportable segments: Americas, Asia-Pacific, Japan and Europe.
When researching a stock like Tiffany, 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 TIF 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 TIF 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 TIF 200 day moving average ("TIF 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the TIF 50 day moving average ("TIF 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Tiffany. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the TIF 200 DMA and the TIF 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("TIF MACD"). The TIF 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). |