Asbury Automotive Group - Barchart's Chart of the Day

Asbury Automotive Group (ABG) is the Barchart Chart of the Day.  The huge automotive retailer has a Trend Spotter buy signal, a Weighted Alpha of 67.80+ and gained 65.62% over the past year.

The Chart of the Day belongs to Asbury Automotive Group (ABG).  I found the stock by sorting the New All Time High list for Weighted Alpha then used the Flipchart function to review the charts.  Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 6/20 the stock gained 8.35%

Asbury Automotive Group is one of the largest automotive retailers in the United States. They sell, finance and service a diverse range of foreign and domestic automobile brands.

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Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 8.61% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 77.79%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 70.22
• Recently traded at 71.18 with a 50 day moving average of 64.68

Fundametal factors:

• Market Cap $2.20 billion
• P/E 18.70
• Revenue expected to grow 8.30% this year and another 6.10% next year
• Earnings estimated to increase by 16.70% this  year, an additional 11.90% next year and continue to increase at an annual rate of 16.1% for the next 5 years
• Wall Street analysts issued 4 strong buy, 3 buy, 2 hold, 1 under perform and a single sell recommendation on the stock

As the economy recovers auto sales should increase too.  Use the 50 day moving average as a sign of weakness and exit at the 100 day moving average.