This is the fourth installment of Techie Tuesdays.  So far we have looked at Exxon Mobil, Starbucks, and J.P. Morgan Chase.  Today we will examine Medco Health Solutions.
Medco Health Solutions (Ticker: MHS), known in short as Medco, is a New Jersey based company that provides pharmacy benefit management services.  Medco has 19,900 employees and in 2007, Medco brought in $44.5 billion in revenues.  In the past year, Medco’s stock has lost 22.7 percent of its value, but this is good considering that the S&P 500 has lost twice as much (44.5 percent) in the same period.  (Data from Yahoo Finance)
Let’s see what the technical …read more

Welcome to Technical Tuesdays!!! 
Everyone is familiar with Big Oil, so I decided to kick off Techie Tuesdays with Exxon Mobil.  Exxon Mobil has been the focus of much media attention for their record profits but, does that mean you should buy the stock?
Today, I will use the simple moving average to evaluate Exxon Mobil.  The moving average is the average closing price of a stock over a set number of days. You can calculate the moving average for any number of days, most people calculate it somewhere between 5 and 200 days.  Each point on the moving average line represents several days worth …read more