Should I buy Aston Martin stock after Sebastian Vettel signing

Aston Martin (LON: AML) stock price is trading in a volatile fashion today after the company’s Formula 1 team Racing Point announced a signing of the four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel. 

Fundamental analysis: A major coup for Aston Martin

Aston Martin plans is set to enter Formula 1 in 2021 after its owner, the Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, bought Racing Point team. Stroll plans to reorganize Aston Martin’s business and make it more focused on its core business - building fast sport-looking cars.

To this end, he made a major coup by signing the four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, who left Ferrari after failing to agree an extension with the Italian giant. Vettel’s deal with Racing Point, the current name of the F1 team, is most likely signed for 3 years.

Racing Point team has been performing in a better-than-expected fashion this year. Stroll, whose son Lance will race alongside Vettel, is looking to rebrand the team and increase the exposure of Aston Martin brand to F1 fans.

Technical analysis: Volatile trading 

Aston Martin share price gained over 6.5% yesterday on media reports that Vettel committed to a multi-year deal with the carmaker’s F1 unit. Today’s high of GBX64.00 is a 3-week high for the stock.

These gains extended early this morning after the official confirmation hit wires before the price action reversed to trade around 1% in the red on the day. The buyers are now fighting to close above the 100-DMA, which is being tested this morning. 

As long as the Aston Martin stock price stays above GBX58.00, it could use these gains from the past two days as a base to continue advancing higher. 

Summary

Aston Martin share price pared back some of this week’s gains after it raced higher yesterday following the announcement that the four-time F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel signed a multi-year contract to race with Racing Point, which will become Aston Martin F1 team next year.