Recent Price Trend in Lands’ End is Your Friend, Here’s Why

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    Most of us have heard the dictum “the trend is your friend.” And this is undeniably the key to success when it comes to short-term investing or trading. But it isn’t easy to ensure the sustainability of a trend and profit from it.

    The trend often reverses before exiting the trade, leading to a short-term capital loss for investors. So, for a profitable trade, one should confirm factors such as sound fundamentals, positive earnings estimate revisions, etc. that could keep the momentum in the stock alive.

    Our “Recent Price Strength” screen, which is created on a unique short-term trading strategy, could be pretty useful in this regard. This predefined screen makes it really easy to shortlist the stocks that have enough fundamental strength to maintain their recent uptrend. Also, the screen passes only the stocks that are trading in the upper portion of their 52-week high-low range, which is usually an indicator of bullishness.

    There are several stocks that passed through the screen:

    Lands’ End

    LE is one of them. Here are the key reasons why this stock is a solid choice for “trend” investing.

    A solid price increase over a period of 12 weeks reflects investors’ continued willingness to pay more for the potential upside in a stock. LE is quite a good fit in this regard, gaining 18.5% over this period.

    However, it’s not enough to look at the price change for around three months, as it doesn’t reflect any trend reversal that might have happened in a shorter time frame. It’s important for a potential winner to maintain the price trend. A price increase of 5.3% over the past four weeks ensures that the trend is still in place for the stock of this clothing maker.

    Moreover, LE is currently trading at 82.1% of its 52-week High-Low Range, hinting that it can be on the verge of a breakout.

    Looking at the fundamentals, the stock currently carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), which means it is in the top 5% of more than the 4,000 stocks that we rank based on trends in earnings estimate revisions and EPS surprises — the key factors that impact a stock’s near-term price movements.

    The Zacks Rank stock-rating system, which uses four factors related to earnings estimates to classify stocks into five groups, ranging from Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) to Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive externally-audited track record, with Zacks Rank #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988.

    Another factor that confirms the company’s fundamental strength is its Average Broker Recommendation of #1 (Strong Buy). This indicates that the brokerage community is highly optimistic about the stock’s near-term price performance.

    So, the price trend in LE may not reverse anytime soon.

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