Guidance Software ($GUID) - Overbought - views

Guidance Software has hit a technical signal on 3 different technical indicators. GUID is in the Technology 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 $11.33 on Feb 13.

There are currently 5 analysts covering the company. Of these analysts, 3 have a buy recommendation. The current consensus estimate for quarterly earnings among the 5 analysts covering the stock is $0.10 per share. Last quarter the company earned $0.07 per share. The consensus estimate for this years earnings is $0.20 per share as compared to the next years' expectation, of $0.28 per share. The consensus estimate for next years earnings is $0.28 per share, which represents forecast growth of 40.0%.

Over the last 52 weeks, the stock has been trading between $5.54 and $11.39. More recently in the last 4 weeks, the stock has been trading between $6.10 and $11.39. Yesterday the stock traded between $10.78 and $11.39. The stock currently has a PE ratio of 0.0.

Guidance Software is trading 38.9% from its 20-day simple moving average (SMA) of $8.16 and 62.8% from its 50-day SMA and 63.01% from its 200-day SMA. Average daily volume over the last 30 days has been 188,537 shares.

At yesterdays close: the RSI was at 92.3, the CCI was at 199.4 and the Fast Stochastic was at 98.6. GUID closed yesterday at $11.33, on volume of 286,108 shares as compared to an average volume of 188,537 over the last 4 weeks.

Guidance Software, Inc. provides software and hardware solutions for digital investigations primarily in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia/the Pacific Rim. The company offers EnCase Enterprise product that enables corporations and government agencies to search, collect, preserve, and analyze data across various servers, desktops, and laptops. It also provides EnCase eDiscovery software that automatically performs search, collection, preservation, and processing of electronically stored information from unstructured and semi-structured data stores; EnCase Cybersecurity, which is used to expose, analyze, and remediate the unknown elements within a network; EnCase Forensic software, a tool for searching, collecting, preserving, and analyzing computer forensic data and authenticating such data in court; and Portable, a forensic data collection solution on a USB. In addition, the company offers hardware products consisting of write blockers, forensic duplicators, and storage devices; and consulting services, such as eDiscovery, network security incident response, civil/criminal digital investigation, and implementation services, as well as packaged services. It serves government agencies and corporations in various industries, such as financial and insurance services, technology, defense contracting, telecom, pharmaceutical, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. The company sells its products through direct sales force, as well as through indirect sales channels. Guidance Software, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

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