September 17, 2015 - Today's 5 Best Small Caps
Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks to find the stocks with technical buy signals of 80% or better and a Weighted Alpha of 50.00+. The top stocks today were The Medicines Company (NASDAQ:MDCO), Dycom Industries (NYSE:DY), Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA), Virtusa (NASDAQ:VRTU), and LHC Group (NASDAQ:LHCG).
The Medicines Company
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- 95.35+ Weighted Alpha
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 10 new highs and up 38.77% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 74.46%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 41.52
- Recently traded at 43.31 with a 50 day moving average of 34.51
Dycom Industries
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- 153.62+ Weighted Alpha
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 10 new highs and up 15.49% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 70.06%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 76.55
- Recently traded at 79.32 with a 50 day moving average of 68.48
Central Garden & Pet
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- 112.63+ Weighted Alpha
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 9 new highs and up 31.17% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 83.18%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 14.94
- Recently traded at 16.20 with a 50 day moving average of 12.14
Virtusa
Barchart technical indicators:
- 88% Barchart technical buy signals
- 51.12+ Weighted Alpha
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 9 new highs and up 7.31% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 60.25%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 52.53
- Recently trade at 53.38 with a 50 day moving average of 50.54
LHC Group
Barchart technical indicators:
- 88% Barchart technical buy signals
- 98.51+ Weighted Alpha
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 4 new highs and up 3.52% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 66.01%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 46.73
- Recently traded at 49.16 with a 50 day moving average of 44.00
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