Public Storage is a real estate investment trust. Co. acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage facilities, which provide storage spaces for lease on a month-to-month basis, for personal and business use. Co. is an owner and operator of self-storage facilities in the U.S. in most primary markets and states. A wholly-owned, consolidated subsidiary of Co. reinsures such policies and thereby assumes various risk of losses under these policies and receives reinsurance premiums substantially equal to the premiums collected from its tenants, from the non-affiliated insurance company. In addition, Co. sells merchandise, primarily locks and cardboard boxes at its self-storage facilities.
When researching a stock like Public Storage, 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 PSA 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 PSA 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 PSA 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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