TJX Companies is an off-price apparel and home fashions retailer. Co.'s segments are: Marmaxx, which operates the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls chains in the U.S. that sell family apparel, home fashions and other merchandise, and Sierra chain that sells outdoor apparel, footwear, and gear; HomeGoods, which provides an assortment of home fashions, including furniture, rugs, lighting, soft home, decorative accessories, tabletop and cookware, as well as pet and gourmet food departments; TJX Canada, which operates the Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls chains in Canada; and TJX International, which operates the T.K. Maxx and Homesense chains in Europe and the T.K. Maxx chain in Australia.
When researching a stock like TJX 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 TJX 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 TJX 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 TJX 200 day moving average ("TJX 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the TJX 50 day moving average ("TJX 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for TJX Companies. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the TJX 200 DMA and the TJX 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("TJX MACD"). The TJX 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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