BMO's Rating Change Only Had Short-term Impact, Mid-America Apartment Communities Up 0.5% (MAA)

Published on Thu, 12/06/2012 - 10:16
By Adrienne Chilton in Analyst reflections, MAA, analyst reflections, mid-america apartment communities, nyse:maa

BMO downgraded Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) from Outperform to Market Perform a week ago. Mid-America Apartment Communities stocks closed at $62.75, a 0.5% gain over the course of one week.

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust which owns, develops, acquires and operates multi family apartment communities in the southeast and midwest United States and Texas. In addition, the Company conducts third party property management, development and construction activities through its service corporation.

Mid-America Apartment Communities has overhead space with shares priced $62.62, or 13.2% below the average consensus analyst price target of $72.14. The stock should find initial resistance at its 50-day moving average (MA) of $63.58 and further resistance at its 200-day MA of $66.15.

Over the past year, Mid-America Apartment Communities has traded in a range of $56.01 to $70.22 and is now at $62.62, 12% above that low. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has fallen 0.5% while the 200-day MA has remained constant.

By Adrienne Chilton
achilton@fnno.com

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