BULLISH SIGNALS
Undervaluation [compared with sector average]:
Dividend Yield
+ The relative yield of Saudi Basic Industries Corp., defined by its yield of 6.5%, divided by average yield of dividend yielding stocks in the All Share Index (TASI) of 2.8% is 230.4%. This suggests Saudi Basic Industries Corp. stock is undervalued in dividend yield terms.
Price to Sales
+ Price/Sales of 1.3 [1.5]. We estimate Saudi Basic Industries Corp. stock is trading at a current year Price/Sales of 1.3 and a forward year Price/Sales of 1.4.
Price to Book
+ Price to Book of 1.1 [1.4]. We estimate Saudi Basic Industries Corp. stock is trading at a current year Price to Book of 1.2 and a forward year Price to Book of 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:
Past Month:
+ In the past three months the stock has hit a new 52-week high once.
Oversold/Bullish/Support Signals:
+ At SAR49.60 the price is below the lower Bollinger band support of SAR50.16, indicating an upside for it to return to the band.
+ The stock is oversold according to the Williams % R indicator of -88.2, suggesting the price is close to its 14-day low of SAR49.10.
BEARISH SIGNALS
Downtrend:
Price/Moving Average Price and MACD:
+ The Price/MAP of 0.85 for 2010 is lower than the Price/MAP for the All Share Index (TASI) of 1.02.
+ The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator of 12-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) of 51.5 minus the 26-day EMA of 52.38 is negative suggesting a bearish signal. Both the 12-day EMA as well as the 26-day EMA are falling, another bearish signal.
+ The price to 50-day EMAP ratio is 0.9, a bearish indicator. In the past 50 days this ratio has been under 0.9 just once suggesting a support level. The 50-day EMAP has decreased to SAR53.73. A decrease is another bearish indicator.
+ The price to 200-day MAP ratio is 0.85, a bearish indicator. In the past 200 days this ratio has been under 0.85 just nine times suggesting a support level. The stock is trading below both its MAPs and the 50-day MAP of SAR54.06 is lower than the 200-day MAP of SAR58.37, a bearish indicator. The 200-day MAP has decreased to SAR58.37. A decrease is another bearish indicator.
Past Week:
+ Saudi Basic Industries Corp. is placed 247/282 in BuySellSignals' ranking of Saudi Arabian performers in the past week, a percentile ranking of 13.
+ In the past week, volume was 1.0 times average and the shares were down 6.2%. Thursday's close price is at a 1.9% discount to its 5-day Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) of SAR50.55.
Past Month:
+ Falls to Rises: in the past month the number of falls outnumbered rises 14:8 or 1.8:1.
+ The present value of SAR1,000 (PV1000) invested one month ago in Saudi Basic Industries Corp. is SAR962, for a capital loss of SAR38.
Relative Strength (6 months):
+ In the Saudi Arabian market of 299 stocks traded today, the stock has a 6-month relative strength of 51 which means it has outperformed 51% of the market.