Small Company Correlations

FOSBX Fund  USD 30.31  0.23  0.76%   
The current 90-days correlation between Small Pany Fund and Small Pany Fund is 1.0 (i.e., No risk reduction). The correlation of Small Company is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

Small Company Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Small Pany Fund and DJI is 0.82 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Small Pany Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Small Pany Fund. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in bureau of labor statistics.

Moving together with Small Mutual Fund

  0.94FSMBX Tributary Smallmid CapPairCorr
  0.94FSMCX Tributary Smallmid CapPairCorr
  1.0FOSCX Small Pany FundPairCorr
  0.74DFSTX Us Small CapPairCorr
  0.63PASVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.62PRVIX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.62TRZVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.63PRSVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.64FBCVX Fidelity Blue ChipPairCorr
  0.67CEVAX Columbia Global ValuePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Small Mutual Fund performing well and Small Company Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Small Company's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
FOSCX  0.84 (0.08)(0.05) 0.02  0.92 
 2.15 
 6.67 
AFVLX  0.53  0.02  0.02  0.09  0.61 
 1.34 
 4.22 
AAIPX  0.61 (0.02)(0.05) 0.04  0.76 
 1.17 
 3.64 
AIEAX  0.60  0.04 (0.05)(0.28) 0.75 
 1.18 
 3.61 
AAISX  0.60 (0.02)(0.05) 0.04  0.76 
 1.16 
 3.59 
AILCX  0.60 (0.03)(0.05) 0.04  0.76 
 1.16 
 3.69 
SVOAX  0.40 (0.03)(0.12) 0.02  0.42 
 0.94 
 2.40 
GWETX  0.82  0.01  0.04  0.08  0.74 
 1.89 
 6.02 
WMLIX  0.50  0.02  0.02  0.10  0.58 
 1.19 
 4.32 
PDEZX  0.88 (0.02) 0.00  0.06  1.26 
 1.86 
 7.16