Overall market sentiment has been high on ResMed Inc. (RMD) stock lately. RMD receives a Bullish rating from InvestorsObserver's Stock Sentiment Indicator.
What is Stock Sentiment?
Sentiment uses short term technical analysis to gauge whether a stock is desired by investors. As a technical indicator, it focuses on recent trends as opposed to the long term health of the underlying company. Updates for the company such as a earnings release can move the stock away from current trends.
Recent trends are a good indicator of current market sentiments. In its most basic form, stocks that are trending up are desirable by investors while stocks currently falling must be unattractive.
InvestorsObserver's Sentimental Indicator tracks both changes in price and volume to analyze the most recent trends. Typically an increase in volume indicates ongoing trends are getting stronger, while a decrease in volume usually signals an end to the current trend.
Available options can also represent current sentiments for a given stock. Since investors are able to bet on future trends of stocks using options, we consider the ratio of calls to puts when analyzing market sentiments .
What's Happening With RMD Stock Today?
ResMed Inc. (RMD) stock is higher by 1.45% while the S&P 500 is down -0.15% as of 2:30 PM on Wednesday, Apr 14. RMD has gained $2.97 from the previous closing price of $205.45 on volume of 383,045 shares. Over the past year the S&P 500 is up 49.74% while RMD has gained 32.59%. RMD earned $4.78 a per share in the over the last 12 months, giving it a price-to-earnings ratio of 43.57.
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More About ResMed Inc.
ResMed is one of the largest global respiratory medical devices companies, primarily developing and supplying flow generators, masks and accessories for the treatment of sleep apnea. Increasing diagnosis of sleep apnea combined with ageing populations and increasing prevalence of obesity is resulting in a structurally growing market. The company earns 65% of revenue in the Americas and the balance across other regions dominated by Europe, Japan and Australia. Recent developments and acquisitions have focused on digital health as ResMed is aiming to differentiate itself through the provision of clinical data for use by the patient, medical care advisor and payer in the out-of-hospital setting.
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