W. R. Berkley Corporation is an insurance holding company. Co. operates through two segments of the property casualty insurance business. Its Insurance segment underwrites predominantly commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the U.S., as well as insurance business in Asia, Australia, Canada, Continental Europe, Mexico, Scandinavia, South America and the United Kingdom. Its Insurance segment consists of business units, including Acadia Insurance, Admiral Insurance, Berkley Accident and Health, Berkley Agribusiness and others.
When researching a stock like Berkley, 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 WRB 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 WRB 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 WRB 200 day moving average ("WRB 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the WRB 50 day moving average ("WRB 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Berkley. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the WRB 200 DMA and the WRB 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("WRB MACD"). The WRB 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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