The Chart of the Day belongs to Corcept Therapeutics (CORT). I found the pharmaceutical stock by using Barchart to sort today's Top Stocks to Own list first by the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then again by technical buy signals of 80% or more. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 2/13 the stock gained 29.73%.
Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated is a pharmaceutical company. It is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, psychiatric and oncologic disorders. The company focuses on disorders that are associated with a steroid hormone called cortisol. It is developing its lead product, CORLUX for the treatment of the psychotic features of psychotic major depression. Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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Barchart technical indicators:
- 100% technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 14 new highs and up 27.78% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 79.42%
- Technical support level at 10.2
- Recently traded at 11.00 with a 50 day moving average of 8.27
Fundamental factors:
- Market Cap $1.23 billion
- P/E 110.56
- Revenue expected to grow 51.90% this year and another 38.70% next year
- Earnings estimated to increase 271.40% this year and an additional 53.80% next year
- Wall Street analysts are split with 2 buy and 2 sell recommendations on the stock
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