Alger Health Sciences Fund Market Value

AHSCX Fund  USD 13.18  0.17  1.27%   
Alger Health's market value is the price at which a share of Alger Health trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Alger Health Sciences investors about its performance. Alger Health is trading at 13.18 as of the 14th of November 2024; that is 1.27 percent decrease since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 13.35.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Alger Health Sciences and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Alger Health over a given investment horizon. Check out Alger Health Correlation, Alger Health Volatility and Alger Health Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Alger Health.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Alger Health's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Alger Health is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Alger Health'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.

Alger Health 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Alger Health's mutual fund what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Alger Health.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Alger Health on October 15, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Alger Health Sciences or generate 0.0% return on investment in Alger Health over 30 days. Alger Health is related to or competes with Prudential Jennison, Davis Financial, Transamerica Financial, Icon Financial, and Mesirow Financial. The fund invests at least 80 percent of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securitie... More

Alger Health Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Alger Health's mutual fund current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess Alger Health Sciences upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Alger Health Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Alger Health's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Alger Health's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Alger Health historical prices to predict the future Alger Health's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Alger Health's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
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12.7913.4514.11
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Intrinsic
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LowRealHigh
12.7213.3814.04
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Naive
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LowNextHigh
12.7013.3614.02
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LowerMiddle BandUpper
13.2913.4513.62
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Alger Health Sciences Backtested Returns

Alger Health Sciences secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of -0.0523, which signifies that the fund had a -0.0523% return per unit of standard deviation over the last 3 months. Alger Health Sciences exposes twenty-two different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please confirm Alger Health's mean deviation of 0.5154, and Risk Adjusted Performance of (0.04) to double-check the risk estimate we provide. The fund shows a Beta (market volatility) of 0.41, which signifies possible diversification benefits within a given portfolio. As returns on the market increase, Alger Health's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Alger Health is expected to be smaller as well.

Auto-correlation

    
  -0.54  

Good reverse predictability

Alger Health Sciences has good reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Alger Health time series from 15th of October 2024 to 30th of October 2024 and 30th of October 2024 to 14th of November 2024. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Alger Health Sciences price movement. The serial correlation of -0.54 indicates that about 54.0% of current Alger Health price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.54
Spearman Rank Test0.08
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.01

Alger Health Sciences lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Alger Health mutual fund's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Alger Health's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Alger Health returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Alger Health has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the mutual fund is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Alger Health regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Alger Health mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Alger Health mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Alger Health mutual fund over time.
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Alger Health Lagged Returns

When evaluating Alger Health's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Alger Health mutual fund have on its future price. Alger Health autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Alger Health autocorrelation shows the relationship between Alger Health mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Alger Health Sciences.
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Alger Health financial ratios help investors to determine whether Alger Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Alger with respect to the benefits of owning Alger Health security.
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