Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retailing company. Its segments include U.S. Retail Pharmacy, International, and U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Retail Pharmacy segment includes the Walgreens business, which includes the operations of retail drug stores, health and wellness services, and specialty and home delivery pharmacy services, and its equity method investment in Cencora, Inc. The International segment consists of pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses outside the U.S. and a pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution business in Germany.
When researching a stock like Walgreens Boots Alliance, 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 WBA 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 WBA 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 WBA 200 day moving average ("WBA 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the WBA 50 day moving average ("WBA 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Walgreens Boots Alliance. |