Breakoutwatch Weekly Summary 02/08/2024

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Market Summary

Large-cap benchmarks hit new highs, but small-caps struggle

The major indexes ended the week mixed amid a slew of significant earnings reports and economic data. The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average moved to intraday highs, but the small-cap indexes recorded losses. The advance was also narrow, with an equally weighted version of the S&P 500 Index recording a modest loss. The week closed out the month of January with the S&P 500 advancing 1.6% over the month, while the equal-weight S&P 500 fell 0.90%, and the small-cap Russell 2000 Index declined nearly 4.0%. [more...]

Major Index Performance

Dow Jones
Last Close 38677.4
Wk. Gain 0.6 %
Yr. Gain 2.96 %
Trend Up
Dow Jones
S&P 500
Last Close 4995.06
Wk. Gain 1.61 %
Yr. Gain 5.27 %
Trend Up
S&P 500
NASDAQ Comp.
Last Close 15756.6
Wk. Gain 2.29 %
Yr. Gain 5.93 %
Trend Up
NASDAQ Comp.
Russell 2000
Last Close 1950.36
Wk. Gain -0.03 %
Yr. Gain -3.11 %
Trend Down
Russell 2000

Performance by Sector

Sector Wk. Change % Yr. Change % Trend
Consumer Discretionary 1.09 0.09 Up
Consumer Staples -0.55 2.49 Up
Energy -0.38 -1.3 Down
Finance 0.98 3.03 Up
Health Care 1.49 5.53 Up
Industrials 1.74 2.7 Up
Technology 2.85 6.92 Up
Materials -0.32 -2.9 Down
REIT -0.72 -5.09 Down
Telecom 0 8.78 Up
Utilities -2.28 -4.11 Down

Breakouts This Week Still Within 5% of Breakout Price (Limit 20 top C Score)

Watchlist Symbol Company Industry C Score* % Gain
SQZ EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. Biotechnology 82.1 % 4 %
CWH FTNT Fortinet, Inc. Software - Infrastructure 81 % 4 %
SQZ STNE StoneCo Ltd. Software - Infrastructure 79.8 % 0.2 %
CWH MCO N/A Asset Management 79.4 % 0.4 %
SQZ CECO CECO Environmental Corp. Chemicals 79.2 % 0.1 %
SQZ CE Celanese Corporation Chemicals 78 % 0.8 %
SQZ EXPE Expedia Group, Inc. Travel Services 77 % 0.4 %
SQZ DY Dycom Industries, Inc. Industrial Distribution 75.7 % 2.1 %
DB CAAP Corporacion America Airports SA Banks - Diversified 74.9 % 0.8 %
SQZ SPIR Spire Global, Inc. Specialty Business Services 73.9 % 0.5 %
SQZ PATH UiPath, Inc. Software - Infrastructure 73.7 % 1.4 %
CWH HUBB Hubbell Inc Asset Management 73.4 % 2.3 %
CWH TGLS Tecnoglass Inc. Building Materials 71.4 % 0.9 %
SQZ ROKU Roku, Inc. Entertainment 69.9 % 1.1 %
SQZ BXC Bluelinx Holdings Inc. Industrial Distribution 69.7 % 1.3 %
CWH TME Tencent Music Entertainme Medical Devices 69.5 % 0.8 %
SQZ NET Cloudflare, Inc. Software - Infrastructure 68.3 % 2.1 %
CWH SNOW Snowflake Inc. Software - Application 67.6 % 3.8 %
CWH OC Owens Corning Inc Banks - Regional 67.5 % 1.5 %
DB TFII TFI International Inc. Trucking 66 % 2.3 %
*C score is our assessment of a Stock's correlation to CAN SLIM principles. It combines a stock's Technical and Fundamental merits and is expressed as a percentage.

Breakdowns within 5% of Breakdown Price

Watchlist Symbol Company Industry C Score* % Loss
SS NGS Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. Biotechnology 73.4 % -2.9 %
SS GFI Gold Fields Limited Ameri Gold 68.4 % -1.1 %
SS OII Oceaneering International, Inc. Asset Management 66.6 % -3 %
SS MARA Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. Capital Markets 64.4 % -1 %
SS HAL Halliburton Company Packaged Foods 61.9 % -4.6 %
SS GCI Gannett Co., Inc. Publishing 55.7 % -0.9 %
SS RXRX Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Biotechnology 47.6 % -0.7 %
SS ULBI Ultralife Corporation Real Estate Services 31.2 % -4.3 %
SS WOR Worthington Enterprises, Inc. Metal Fabrication 26.4 % -1.2 %
SS VTLE Vital Energy, Inc. Biotechnology 22.3 % -4.2 %
SS YEXT Yext, Inc. Software - Infrastructure 15.5 % -3.1 %
*C score is our assessment of a Stock's correlation to CAN SLIM principles. It combines a stock's Technical and Fundamental merits and is expressed as a percentage.

There were no CWH stocks meeting our breakout model criteria *C score is our assessment of a Stock's correlation to CAN SLIM principles. It combines a stock's Technical and Fundamental merits and is expressed as a percentage.

Cup and Handle Chart of the Week

MKS Intruments obtained the best score in my cup and handle breakout model. Although SURG has a higher CAN SLIM score, MKSI is closer to breakout.