BULLISH SIGNALS
Undervaluation [compared with sector average]:
Dividend Yield
+ The relative yield of Saudi Basic Industries, defined by its yield of 5.9%, divided by average yield of dividend yielding stocks in the All Share Index (TASI) of 5.0% is 118.2%. This suggests Saudi Basic Industries stock is undervalued in dividend yield terms.
Price to Sales
+ Price/Sales of 1.2 [1.4].
Price to Book
+ Price to Book of 1.1 [1.3].
MCap/Total Assets
+ Tobin's Q Ratio, defined as MCap divided by Total Assets, is 0.6. Compared with the rest of the market the stock is undervalued.
Uptrend:
Relative Strength (6 months):
+ In the Saudi Arabian market of 300 stocks traded today, the stock has a 6-month relative strength of 70 indicating it has outperformed 70% of the market.
Oversold/Bullish/Support Signals:
+ At SAR57.45 the price is below the lower Bollinger band support of SAR57.82, indicating an upside for it to return to the band.
+ The Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 19.5 has breached the oversold line of 30, suggesting the price decrease of 19.5% in the last 14 days is unusually high.
+ The stock is oversold according to the Williams % R indicator of -91.5, suggesting the price is close to its 14-day low of SAR57.10.
BEARISH SIGNALS
Downtrend:
Price/Moving Average Price and MACD:
+ The Price/MAP of 0.92 for 2010 is lower than the Price/MAP for the All Share Index (TASI) of 1.0.
+ The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator of 12-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) of 59.28 minus the 26-day EMA of 60.24 is negative suggesting a bearish signal.
+ The price to 50-day EMAP ratio is 0.9, a bearish indicator.
+ In the past 200 days this ratio has been under 0.92, 112 times suggesting further downside. The stock is trading below both its MAPs and the 50-day MAP of SAR60.44 is lower than the 200-day MAP of SAR62.24, a bearish indicator. The 200-day MAP has decreased to SAR62.24. A decrease is another bearish indicator.
Past Week:
+ Saudi Basic Industries Corp. is placed 148/291 in BuySellSignals' ranking of Saudi Arabian performers in the past week, a percentile ranking of 49.
+ In the past week, volume was 1.0 times average and the shares were down 3.9%. Sunday's close price is at a 1.7% discount to its 5-day Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) of SAR58.46.
Past Month:
+ The present value of SAR1,000 (PV1000) invested one month ago in Saudi Basic Industries is SAR932, for a capital loss of SAR68.