Barchart.com's Chart of the Day - Eaton Vance (EV)

Barchart.com's Chart of the Day - Eaton Vance (EV

Barchart Research Team - BC - Wed Feb 06, 3:31PM CST

 

Eaton Vance Corp.'s (EV) principal business is creating, marketing and managing investment funds and providing investment management and counseling services to institutions and individuals. The firm manages over $190 billion through more than 150 mutual and closed end funds as well as 1,300 separately managed accounts for institutions. The Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 11/2 and during the last quarter the stock advanced 31 times for a gain of 27.63%. The stock was found by sorting the Barchart New High list of stock trading over 100K shares per day and then sorted for frequency.


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Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signals
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 31 new highs and up 27.63% in the last quarter
• Relative Strength Index 83.56%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 36.52
• Recently traded at 37.21 with a 50 day moving average of 33.24

Fundamental factors:

• Market Cap - $4.27 billion
• P/E 20.18
• Dividend yield 2.19%
• Analysts have issued 1 buy and 10 hold recommendations
• Revenue projected to be up 8.20% this year and another 8.70% next year
• Earnings estimated to increase by 12.20% this year, an additional 11.80% next year and continue to increase by 12.05% annually for the next 5 years
• Analysts predict investors could see an annual total return in the 18% - 22% range for the next 5 years
• Financial strength rating B+