Matthews Asia Small Fund Fundamentals

MSMLX Fund  USD 25.02  1.04  3.99%   
Matthews Asia Small fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Matthews Asia's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Matthews Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Matthews Asia's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Matthews Asia mutual fund.
  
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Matthews Asia Small Mutual Fund Price To Book Analysis

Matthews Asia's Price to Book (P/B) ratio is used to relate a company book value to its current market price. A high P/B ratio indicates that investors expect executives to generate more returns on their investments from a given set of assets. Book value is the accounting value of assets minus liabilities.

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Current Matthews Asia Price To Book

    
  2.91 X  
Most of Matthews Asia's fundamental indicators, such as Price To Book, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Matthews Asia Small is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Price to Book ratio is mostly used in financial services industries where assets and liabilities are typically represented by dollars. Although low Price to Book ratio generally implies that the firm is undervalued, it is often a good indicator that the company may be in financial or managerial distress and should be investigated more carefully.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Matthews Asia Small has a Price To Book of 2.91 times. This is 293.24% higher than that of the Matthews Asia Funds family and significantly higher than that of the Diversified Emerging Mkts category. The price to book for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Matthews Asia Small Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Matthews Asia's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Matthews Asia value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Matthews Asia competition to find correlations between indicators driving Matthews Asia's intrinsic value. More Info.
Matthews Asia Small is number one fund in price to earning among similar funds. It is number one fund in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.16  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Matthews Asia Small is roughly  6.45 . Comparative valuation analysis is a catch-all model that can be used if you cannot value Matthews Asia by discounting back its dividends or cash flows. This model doesn't attempt to find an intrinsic value for Matthews Asia's Mutual Fund. Still, instead, it compares the stock's price multiples to a benchmark or nearest competition to determine if the stock is relatively undervalued or overvalued. The reason why the comparable model can be used in almost all circumstances is due to the vast number of multiples that can be utilized, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), price-to-cash flow (P/CF), and many others. The P/E ratio is the most commonly used of these ratios because it focuses on the Matthews Asia's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Matthews Price To Book Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Matthews Asia's direct or indirect competition against its Price To Book to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the mutual funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Matthews Asia could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Matthews Asia by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Matthews Asia is currently under evaluation in price to book among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Matthews Asia

The fund consists of 94.99% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments.
Asset allocation divides Matthews Asia's investment portfolio among different asset categories to balance risk and reward by investing in a diversified mix of instruments that align with the investor's goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Mutual funds, which pool money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of securities, use asset allocation strategies to manage the risk and return of their portfolios.
Mutual funds allocate their assets by investing in a diversified portfolio of securities, such as stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and cash. The specific mix of these securities is determined by the fund's investment objective and strategy. For example, a stock mutual fund may invest primarily in equities, while a bond mutual fund may invest mainly in fixed-income securities. The fund's manager, responsible for making investment decisions, will buy and sell securities in the fund's portfolio as market conditions and the fund's objectives change.

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About Matthews Asia Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Matthews Asia Small's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Matthews Asia using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Matthews Asia Small based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this mutual fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Under normal circumstances, the fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80 percent of its net assets, which include borrowings for investment purposes, in the common and preferred stocks of small companies located in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries generally include every country in the world except the United States, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and most of the countries in Western Europe.

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Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Matthews Asia Small. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in bureau of economic analysis.
You can also try the Portfolio Comparator module to compare the composition, asset allocations and performance of any two portfolios in your account.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Matthews Asia's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Matthews Asia is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Matthews Asia's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.