Credit: Shutterstock photoBancorpSouth ( BXS ) saw a positive improvement to its Relative Strength ( RS ) Rating on Thursday, with an increase from 67 to 72.
[ibd-display-video id=2102289 width=50 float=left autostart=true] This proprietary rating identifies technical performance by using a 1 (worst) to 99 (best) score that identifies how a stock's price action over the trailing 52 weeks stacks up against all the other stocks in our database.
History reveals that the top-performing stocks tend to have an 80 or higher RS Rating as they begin their largest climbs. See if BancorpSouth can continue to show renewed price strength and clear that threshold.
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BancorpSouth is trading within a buying range after breaking past a 32.80 entry in a flat base . Once a stock moves 5% or higher beyond the initial entry, it's considered out of buy range.
The company showed 8% EPS growth in its most recent report, while sales growth came in at 3%.
BancorpSouth earns the No. 29 rank among its peers in the Banks-Southeast industry group. First Bancorp ( FBNC ), Entegra Financial ( ENFC ) and Servisfirst Bancshares ( SFBS ) are among the top 5 highly rated stocks within the group.
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