Small Company Correlations

FOSBX Fund  USD 29.70  0.43  1.43%   
The current 90-days correlation between Small Pany Fund and Nuance Mid Cap is 0.85 (i.e., Very poor diversification). 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 good diversification

The correlation between Small Pany Fund and DJI is -0.25 (i.e., Very good 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

  0.98VSMAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.98VSCIX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.98VSCPX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.98NAESX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.97FSSNX Fidelity Small CapPairCorr
  0.99DFSTX Us Small CapPairCorr
  0.64PASVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.83PRVIX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.99TRZVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.86PFN Pimco Income StrategyPairCorr
  0.88CIF Mfs Intermediate HighPairCorr
  0.87PCF Putnam High IncomePairCorr
  0.68CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.66INTC IntelPairCorr
  0.67JPM JPMorgan Chase Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.64CSCO Cisco SystemsPairCorr
  0.68AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.64BAC Bank of America Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.64IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.68CVX Chevron Corp Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.62DD Dupont De Nemours Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr

Moving against Small Mutual Fund

  0.68XNBHX Neuberger Berman IntPairCorr
  0.52XDSMX Dreyfus StrategicPairCorr
  0.35XNXJX Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr

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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.