The 5 Best Large Caps | Seeking Alpha

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Today I wanted to find the 5 large cap stocks that had the most consistent upward momentum this past month. I used Barchart to sort theS&P 500 Large Cap stock index to find the stocks that had the most frequent new highs in the last month.

The stocks making the cut are: Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Lowe's (LOW), Omnicom Group (OMC), Red Hat (RHT) and Archer Daniels Midland(ADM):

Sherwin-Williams (SHW)

Barchart technical indicators:

96% Barchart technical buy signals
Trend Spotter buy signal
Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
18 new highs and up 5.79% in the last month
Relative Strength Index 73.31%
Barchart computes a technical support level at 238.34
Recently traded at 242.05 with a 50 day moving average of 224.54

Barchart technical indicators:

100% Barchart technical buy signals
Trend Spotter buy signal
Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
18 new highs and up 15.13% in the last month
Relative Strength Index 85.76%
Barchatt computes a technical support level at 62.00
Recently traded at 63.62 with a 50 day moving average of 55.53

Omnicom Group (OMC)

Barchart technical indicators:

80% Barchart technical buy signals
Trend Spotter buy signal
Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
18 new highs and up 8.29% in the last month
Relative Strength Index 76.35%
Barchart computes a technical support level at 74.49
Recently traded at 76.13 with a 50 day moving average of 70.12

Barchart technical indicators:

48% Barchart technical buy signals
Trend Spotter buy signal
Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
17 new highs and up 11.19% in the last month
Relative Strength Index 64.55%
Barchart computes a technical support level at 60.76
Recently traded at 62.30 with a 50 day moving average of 58.35

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)

Barchart technical indicators:

96% Barchart technical buy signals
Trend Spotter buy signal
Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
17 new highs and up 16.50% in the last month
Barchart computes a technical support level at 51.76
Recently traded at 53.06 with a 50 day moving average of 49.01

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