Company Description: Lincoln National Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in multiple insurance and retirement businesses in the United States. It sells a range of wealth protection, accumulation, and retirement income products and solutions. These products include fixed and indexed annuities, variable annuities, universal life insurance (UL), variable universal life insurance (VUL), linked-benefit UL, term life insurance, mutual funds, and group life insurance. The company also provides employer-sponsored fixed and variable annuities, and mutual fund-based programs; single and survivorship versions of UL and VUL, including corporate-owned UL and VUL, and bank-owned UL and VUL products to small and mid-sized banks and large-sized corporations; and group non-medical insurance products, principally term life, disability, and dental. Lincoln National Corporation distributes its products through a range of intermediaries, including financial advisors, consultants, brokers, banks, wirehouses, planners, third party administrators, and other intermediaries. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Our Analysis: The shares of Lincoln National Corp. 'LNC' set a new yearly closing high yesterday on heavier than normal trading volume. In the process they completed a "cup pattern with a measured move to our stated price target of $33.56/share. I see downside support on the share of 'LNC' @ $27.84/share, and have set my stops accordingly at $27.41/share.