Alliant Energy is a public utility holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL) and Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), Co.'s primary focus is to provide regulated electric and natural gas service in the Midwest. IPL is a public utility engaged in the generation and distribution of electricity and the distribution and transportation of natural gas to retail customers in select markets in Iowa. IPL is also engaged in the generation and distribution of steam. WPL is a public utility engaged in the generation and distribution of electricity and the distribution and transportation of natural gas to retail customers in select markets in Wisconsin.
When researching a stock like Alliant Energy, 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 LNT 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 LNT stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of these ways is called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI. This popular indicator, originally developed in the 1970's by J. Welles Wilder, looks at a 14-day moving average of a stock's gains on its up days, versus its losses on its down days. The resulting LNT RSI is a value that measures momentum, oscillating between "oversold" and "overbought" on a scale of zero to 100. A reading below 30 is viewed to be oversold, which a bullish investor could look to as a sign that the selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and look for entry point opportunities. A reading above 70 is viewed to be overbought, which could indicate that a rally in progress is starting to get crowded with buyers. If the rally has been a long one, that could be a sign that a pullback is overdue. |
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