Corinthian Colleges (COCO) - Overbought - views

Corinthian Colleges has hit a technical signal on 3 different technical indicators. COCO is in the Consumer Services sector. The technical signals indicate that the stock is Overbought right now. The 3 indicators: Commodity Channel Index, Relative Strength Index and the Fast Stochastics were all triggered based on the last closing price of $4.13 on Feb 1.

There are currently 13 analysts covering the company. Of these analysts, 2 have a buy recommendation. The consensus estimate for this years earnings is $0.15 per share as compared to the next years' expectation, of $0.33 per share. The consensus estimate for next years earnings is $0.33 per share, which represents forecast growth of 120.0%.

Over the last 52 weeks, the stock has been trading between $1.24 and $5.75. More recently in the last 4 weeks, the stock has been trading between $2.22 and $4.37. Yesterday the stock traded between $3.50 and $4.37. The stock currently has a PE ratio of 0.0.

Corinthian Colleges is trading 46.6% from its 20-day simple moving average (SMA) of $2.82 and 62.8% from its 50-day SMA and 35.80% from its 200-day SMA. Average daily volume over the last 30 days has been 1,857,734 shares.

At yesterdays close: the RSI was at 80.4, the CCI was at 310.3 and the Fast Stochastic was at 86.9. COCO closed yesterday at $4.13, on volume of 11,482,000 shares as compared to an average volume of 1,857,734 over the last 4 weeks.

Corinthian Colleges, Inc. operates as a post-secondary education company in the United States and Canada. It offers various diploma programs; and associate's, bachelor's; and master's degrees. The company's diploma curricula includes medical assisting, medical insurance billing and coding, massage therapy, dental assisting, pharmacy technician, medical administrative assisting, automotive and diesel technology, HVAC, surgical technology, plumbing, electrical, licensed practical nursing, electronics, and computer technology. Corinthian's degree curriculum includes business administration, criminal justice, medical assisting, registered nursing, accounting, paralegal, marketing, computer information technology, legal assisting, hospitality management, applied service management, film, and video. It also provides master's degree in business administration and criminal justice; and an online learning alternative to students pursuing education exclusively online. As of June 30, 2011, Corinthian operated 122 colleges with 93,457 students in 26 states and the province of Ontario, Canada. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Santa Ana, California.

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