We assign a technical rating of 0 out of 10 to VAL. VAL's overall performance in the market is below average. Also recent evolutions are not that positive. Both the medium and short term picture give negative signs.
The short term trend is negative, as is the long term trend. There should be more interesting stocks out there.
When comparing the yearly performance of all stocks, VAL is a bad performer in the overall market: 90% of all stocks are doing better.
VAL is part of the Energy Equipment & Services industry. There are 59 other stocks in this industry, of which 82% are performing better than VAL.
VAL is currently making a new 52 week low. This is a very bad signal. The S&P500 Index is trading in the upper part of its 52 week range, so VAL is lagging the market.
In the last month VAL has a been trading in the 35.40 - 49.32 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.
Prices have been falling strongly lately, it is better to avoid new long positions here.
Volume is considerably higher in the last couple of days. In combination with the strong move down this is a bad signal.
VAL has an average volume of 1749030 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.