Xylem Inc. is a water technology company. Co. designs, manufactures and services engineered products and solutions across a range of critical applications, primarily in the water sector, as well as in energy. Co.'s Water Infrastructure segment focuses on the transportation and treatment of water, offering a range of products including water, wastewater and storm water pumps, treatment equipment, and controls and systems. Co.'s Applied Water segment's products include pumps, valves, heat exchangers, controls and dispensing equipment.
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). |