Today's 5 Best Large Caps

This morning I wanted to find the large cap stocks that have had good price appreciation not only over the past year but also still seem to have some steam left.  I used Barchart to sort the S&P 500 Large Cap Index stocks first for the highest Weighted Alpha then for current technical buy signals of 80% or better.  The stock that made the cut were Cablevision Systems (CVC), Under Armour (UA), Teco Energy (TE), Reynolds American (RAI and Autozone (AZO).

Cablevision Systems (CVC)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• 97.80+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 13 new highs and up 39.55% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 78.59%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 32.93
• Recently traded at 33.13 with a 50 day moving average of 27.01

Under Armour (UA)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 80% Barchart technical buy signals
• 51.90+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 10 new highs and up 12.66% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 58.23%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 99.92
• Recently traded at 101.43 with a 50 day moving average of 96.30

Teco Energy (TE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 88% Barchart technical buy signals
• 51.10+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 8 new highs and up 22.74% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 79.98%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 26.50
• Recently traded at 26.61 with a 50 day moving average of 22.71

Reynolds American (RAI)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 88% Barchart technical buy signals
• 45.60+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 6 new highs and up 2.71% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 57.89%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 42.40
• Recently traded at 42.94 with a 50 day moving average of 41.91

Autozone (AZO)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 88% Barchart technical buy signals
• 43.10+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 6 new highs and up 6.46% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 61.16%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 710.76
• Recently traded at 746.23 with a 50 day moving average of 711.46

The 2 Best Large Caps

Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 500 Large Cap Index stocks to find which ones met my criteria.  Today there were only two stocks that passed the test: Vulcan Materials (VMC) and  Teco Energy (TE).

Vulcan Materials (VMC)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• 60.72+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 3 new highs and up 2.12% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 61.77%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 97.81
• Recently traded at 99.84 with a 50 day moving average of 93.02

Teco Energy (TE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• 51.46+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 5 new highs and up 19.57% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 84.97%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 26.48
• Recently traded at 26.76 with a 50 day moving average of 21.56 

5 Large Cap Winners

Today I sorted the S & P 500 Index to find 5 stocks with great Barchart technical indicators and charts and found Waste Management (WM), Wisconsin Energy (WEC), Western Digital (WDC), Torchmark (TMK), TECO Energy (TE):

Waste Management (WM)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 4 new highs and up 2.83% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 67.15%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 39.71
• Recently traded at 40.34 with a 50 day moving average of 38.03

Wisconsin Energy (WEC)

Barhchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 13 new highs and up 3.80% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 71.67%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 43.74
• Recently traded at 44.58 with a 50 day moving average of 42.06

Western Digital (WDC)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 6 new highs and up 8.49% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 65.56%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 50.75
• Recently traded at 54.78 with a 50 day moving average of 49.59

Torchmark (TMK)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signals
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 7 new highs and up 2.84% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 65.92%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 60.58
• Recently traded at 61.64 with a 50 day moving average of 58.51

TECO Energy (TE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 16 new highs and up 6.45% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 75.22%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 18.62
• Recently traded at 19.00 with a 50 day moving average of 17.74