basically it means a stock has gotten ahead of itself on either the upside or the downside
stocks traditionally should trade at some multiple of its forward earnings projection...so if you hear a stock is trading at 10 times earnings when the true value is 8x earnings, the stock is overbought...conversely if its trading at 6x earnings, it's oversold
basically it means a stock has gotten ahead of itself on either the upside or the downside
stocks traditionally should trade at some multiple of its forward earnings projection...so if you hear a stock is trading at 10 times earnings when the true value is 8x earnings, the stock is overbought...conversely if its trading at 6x earnings, it's oversold