TripAdvisor operates a travel guidance platform that connects a global audience of travelers with travel partners through content, price comparison tools, and online reservation and related services for destinations, accommodations, travel activities and experiences, and restaurants. In addition to the Tripadvisor brand, Co. owns and operates a portfolio of travel media brands and businesses, operating under various websites. Co.'s Rentals offering provides information and services that allow travelers to research and book vacation and short-term rental properties, including full homes, condominiums, villas, beach properties, cabins and cottages.
When researching a stock like Tripadvisor, 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 TRIP 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 TRIP 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 TRIP 200 day moving average ("TRIP 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the TRIP 50 day moving average ("TRIP 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Tripadvisor. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the TRIP 200 DMA and the TRIP 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("TRIP MACD"). The TRIP 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). |