Craft Brewers Alliance - BREW - Chart of the Day

Summary:

Craft Brewers Alliance (BREW) is the Chart of the Day.  Craft beers are in vogue and so is this stock which is up more than 77% in the past year.  The beer is good too.

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The Chart of the Day is Craft Brewers Alliance (BREW).  The stock is up 77.02% in the past year and has a Relative Strength Index of 84.95%,  The stock was right at the top of the New High List with 19 new highs in the last 20 sessions.

The company is engaged in the business of brewing, marketing and selling of craft beers in the United States. It operates in two segments: Beer Related operations and Pubs and Other. Craft Brew owns and operates production breweries with adjacent restaurants or pubs in Portland, Oregon, Woodinville, Washington and Portsmouth, New Hampshire and in Kona, Hawaii. It offers its beer products under the Widmer Brothers, Redhook and Kona Brewing brand names.

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Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 19 new highs and up 33.20% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 84.95%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 9.50
• Recently traded at 9.95 with a 50 day moving average of 7.94

Fundamental factors:

• Market Cap $187.96 million
• P/E 457.50
• Revenue projected to grow 9.20% this year and another 9.30% next year
• Earnings estimated to increase by 15.40% this year, 80.00% next year and continue to  increase by 20.00% annually for the next 5 years
• 2 Wall Street analysts and Piper Jaffray have issued strong buy recommendations
• Financial Strength B

This stock looks great - both beer and pubs.  As always watch the moving averages to decide when to get out.