Chart of the Day: Curtiss-Wright - Still Flying High

The Chart of the Day belongs to aerospace & defense company Curtiss-Wright (CW).   I found the stock by using Barchart's powerful screening functions to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, highest Weighted Alpha, superior current momentum and having a Trend Seeker buy signal then used the Flipchart  feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation.  Since the Trend Seeker signaled a buy on 6/8 the stock gained 15.71%.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides engineered products, solutions, and services to the aerospace, defense, general industrial, and power generation markets worldwide. It operates through three segments: Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics, and Naval & Power. The Aerospace & Industrial segment offers industrial and specialty vehicle products, such as electronic throttle control devices, joysticks, and transmission shifters; sensors, controls and electro-mechanical actuation components used in commercial and military aircraft; and surface technology services, including shot peening, laser peening, and coatings. The Defense Electronics segment provides commercial off-the-shelf embedded computing board-level modules, data acquisition and flight test instrumentation equipment, integrated subsystems, instrumentation and control systems, and tactical communications solutions; turret aiming and stabilization products, and weapons handling systems; avionics and electronics; flight test equipment; and aircraft data management solutions. The Naval & Power segment offers hardware, pumps, pump seals, control rod drive mechanisms, valves, fastening systems, specialized containment doors, airlock hatches, spent fuel management products, and fluid sealing products for nuclear power plants and nuclear equipment manufacturers; and naval propulsion and auxiliary equipment, including coolant pumps, power-dense compact motors, generators, steam turbines, valves, and secondary propulsion systems, as well as ship repair and maintenance services primarily to the U.S. navy. Curtiss-Wright Corporation was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina.

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Barchart Technical Indicators:

• 100% technical buy signals
• 43.50+ Weighted Alpha
• 38.57% gain in the last year
• Trend Seeker buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 11.27 in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 75.72%
• Technical support level at $199.85
• Recently traded at $202.35 with 50 day moving average of $180.23

Fundamental Factors:

• Market Cap $7.76 billion
• P/E 22.90
• Dividend yield .40%
• Revenue predicted to grow 7.60% this year and another 5.50% next year
• Earnings expected to increase 10.80% this year, an additional 9.80% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of  140.00% for the next 5 years

Analysts and Investor Sentiment -- I don't buy stocks because everyone else is buying but I do realize that if major firms and investors are dumping a stock it's hard to make money swimming against the tide:

• Wall Street analyst gave1 strong buy, 3 buy and4 hold opinions on the stock
• Analysts gave price targets of $183 to $228
• The individual investors following the stock on Motley Fool voted 151 to 2 for the stock to beat the market with their most experienced investors voting 31 to 1 for the same result
• Value Line gives the stock its an average rating of 3 with price targets of $170 to $255
• CFRAs MarketScope rates it a hold
• 3,630 investors monitor the stock on Seeking Alpha

Disclosure:I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, but may initiate a beneficial Long position through a purchase of the stock, or the purchase of call options or similar derivatives in  the next 72 hours.

Additional disclosure: The Barchart Chart of the Day highlights stocks that are experiencing exceptional current price appreciation. They are not intended to be buy recommendations as these stocks are extremely volatile and speculative. Should you decide to add one of these stocks to your investment portfolio it is highly suggested you follow a predetermined diversification and moving stop loss discipline that is consistent with your personal investment risk tolerance and reevaluate your stop losses at least on a weekly basis.