Xylem is a global water technology company. Co. designs, manufactures and services engineered products and solutions ranging across a variety of applications in utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Co.'s three reportable segments include: Water Infrastructure, which serves the water infrastructure sector with pump systems; Applied Water, which serves the water usage applications sector with water pressure boosting systems; and Measurement and Control Solutions, which serves the utility infrastructure solutions and services sector by delivering communications, metering, measurement and control technologies and infrastructure technologies.
When researching a stock like Xylem, 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 XYL 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 XYL 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 XYL 200 day moving average ("XYL 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the XYL 50 day moving average ("XYL 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Xylem. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the XYL 200 DMA and the XYL 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("XYL MACD"). The XYL 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). |