Best Five S&P 500 Stocks Moving Ahead of SMA 50 – NYX, GNW, WDC, THC, ANF

Simple Moving Average is define as the median price of a security gauged by adding ending prices from the most recent trading days like 50 days and dividing by the number of trading days considered. A simple moving average is easy to measure and offers a quick look at a security’s short-term trend.

Usually, this is the median stock price over a certain time period. Investors should keep in mind that equal weighting is given to every daily price. In this article we will discuss top five S&P 500 stocks ahead of SMA 50.

NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) has market capitalization of 7.70 billion. Shares price of corporation moving ahead of its 20 days moving average with 26.77% and remote positively to its 50 days moving average with 31.37%. Shares of the company were ahead of SMA 200 with 27.00%. Total outstanding shares were 243 million. Institutional investors own 72% shares of the company.

Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE:GNW) has the market capitalization of 3.57 billion while its price to earnings ratio was 11.97. Its 491.83 million shares were outstanding. Shares of the company were moving ahead of its 50 days moving average with 19.64% and remote positively to its 200 days moving average with 22.50%. Price to book ratio of the company was 0.22 while its price to cash ratio was 0.95. Beta, which measures the risk associated with the stock, was 3.08.

Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) is the thirds best stock in S&P 500 who’s shares moving ahead of SMA 50. Western Digital has the market capitalization of 10.25 billion while its EPS was 7.50. Total outstanding shares were 243.06 million while institutions own 79% stock. Shares of the company were moving ahead of SMA 50 with 17.05% and remote positively to its 200 days moving average with 13.75%. ROE ratio of the company was 27.50%.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) has 36.11 value in P/E ratio. The healthcare stock has 3.41 billion market capitalizations while 106.48 million shares were outstanding. The beta factor for the stock was 2.43 and PEG ratio was 2.93. Institutional investors own 90% stake in the THC. The company shares were ahead of SMA 50 day’s with 16.54%.

Finally let’s have a quick look on last stock of the group Abercrombie & Fitch Co (NYSE:ANF). Shares of the company were moving ahead of SMA 50 with 15.89% while SMA 200 with 18.61%. ROE ratio of the company was 6.10% while ROI was 4.81%. in the liquidity analysis, current ratio was 1.66 while quick ratio was 0.90.

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