On Monday, Forward Air reached an important technical milestone, seeing its Relative Strength (RS) Rating jump into the 90-plus percentile with an improvement to 93, up from 90 the day before.
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This exclusive rating from Investor's Business Daily identifies share price action with a 1 (worst) to 99 (best) score. The score shows how a stock's price performance over the trailing 52 weeks compares to all the other stocks in our database.
Over 100 years of market history reveals that the best-performing stocks tend to have an RS Rating north of 80 as they launch their biggest runs.
Now is not an ideal time to jump in since it isn't near a proper buy zone, but see if the stock is able to form a base and break out.
The company showed 0% EPS growth last quarter, while sales growth came in at 13%. Look for the next report on or around Aug. 11.
Forward Air holds the No. 2 rank among its peers in the Transportation-Truck industry group. Covenant Logistics Cl A is the No. 1-ranked stock within the group.
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