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  Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR) shares gained 4.08% today (2020-03-09). Is it the right time to buy?
  On: March 10
  Tagged: DLTR, Dollar Tree, Inc.
  What's happening at Dollar Tree, Inc. (NasdaqGS:DLTR)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 4.08% (or 3.27 points) to $83.51 from its previous close of $80.24. So is it the right moment to buy?
  The shares had an increased trading volume of 4,747,970 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 4,693,416 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 2,969,550 contracts.
  The indicator of a company's profitability, the earnings per share ratio is 3.47. This value shows how much money a company makes for each share of its stock. A higher EPS indicates more value because investors will pay more for a company with higher profits. This is positive and tells you exactly how much money the company earned per share of its 236.7M outstanding stocks.
  The closing market price for this trading session was 11.17% over 52 weeks minimum price of $75.12 and 30.24% under 52 weeks maximum price of $119.71. Also the price is -16.40% less than 200 day average of $99.89 and -4.28% less than 50 day average of $87.25.
  At post-market close the stock price was $85.50, thus increasing a further 2.38% (or 1.99 points) with respect to regular market close.
  Looking at the trading signals for Dollar Tree, Inc. over last 6 months of daily time series of prices, the two-week relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator that measures the size of recent changes of price to evaluate overbought or oversold conditions, stands at 43.57. According to standard usage, it's value between 30 and 70 suggests that DLTR stock is currently neutral, and shares are stable in terms of price movement. The stochastic oscillator reading, another momentum indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, stands at 44.25. According to standard usage, it's value between 20 and 80 suggests that shares are stable in terms of price movement. But let's keep in mind that even stochastic readings very close to thresholds are not indicative of imminent reversal. In fact very strong trends can maintain overbought or oversold conditions for an extended period, but changes in the stochastic oscillator might suggest future trend shifts.
  Another important signal comes from the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), a trend-following momentum indicator. It helps investors understand whether the bullish or bearish movement in the price is strengthening or weakening. Traders keep constatly an eye on the move of the MACD above or below the zero line due to the fact that the reading is an indicator of the position of the 12-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) relative to the 26-period EMA. It currently stands at -2.43. The MACD is below the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of DLTR is below that of the long-term average, thus implying a downward momentum. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at -1.70. According to standard usage, this is a bearish signal which indicates that it may be time to sell your DLTR stocks.
  Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of DLTR today are:
  Just 10 S&P 500 stocks are higher, including Cabot Oil, Walmart and AutoZone, published on Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:30:00 +0000
  Dollar Tree: The Pressure Mounts, published on Sun, 08 Mar 2020 21:09:54 +0000
  7 Earnings Reports to Watch Next Week, published on Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:55:32 +0000
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