Campbell Soup is a manufacturer and marketer of food and beverage products. Co.'s reportable segments are: Meals and Beverages, which includes the retail and foodservice businesses in the U.S. and Canada, and the products include Swanson broth and stocks, Prego pasta sauces, and Campbell's tomato juice; and Snacks, which consists of Pepperidge Farm cookies, crackers, fresh bakery and frozen products in U.S. retail, including Milano cookies and Goldfish crackers, and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels, Lance sandwich crackers, Cape Cod and Kettle Brand potato chips, Late July snacks, Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps, Pop Secret popcorn, Emerald nuts, and other snacking products in the U.S. and Canada.
When researching a stock like Campbell Soup, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from CPB Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for CPB stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the CPB 200 day moving average ("CPB 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the CPB 50 day moving average ("CPB 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Campbell Soup. |
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