Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund Market Value

VSMAX Fund  USD 118.05  1.27  1.06%   
Vanguard Small's market value is the price at which a share of Vanguard Small trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Vanguard Small Cap Index investors about its performance. Vanguard Small is trading at 118.05 as of the 19th of November 2024; that is 1.06 percent down since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 119.32.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Vanguard Small Cap Index and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Vanguard Small over a given investment horizon. Check out Vanguard Small Correlation, Vanguard Small Volatility and Vanguard Small Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Vanguard Small.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Vanguard Small's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Vanguard Small is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Vanguard Small'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.

Vanguard Small '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 Vanguard Small'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 Vanguard Small.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Vanguard Small on November 30, 2022 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Vanguard Small Cap Index or generate 0.0% return on investment in Vanguard Small over 720 days. Vanguard Small is related to or competes with Pgim Jennison, Artisan Thematic, Tiaa Cref, T Rowe, Issachar Fund, Davenport Small, and Delaware Limited. The fund advisor employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the CRSP US Small Cap Inde... More

Vanguard Small 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 Vanguard Small'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 Vanguard Small Cap Index upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Vanguard Small Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Vanguard Small's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Vanguard Small's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Vanguard Small historical prices to predict the future Vanguard Small's volatility.
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117.26118.30119.34
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106.25127.07128.11
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Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as Vanguard Small. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against Vanguard Small's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, Vanguard Small's competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in Vanguard Small Cap.

Vanguard Small Cap Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Vanguard Mutual Fund to be very steady. Vanguard Small Cap owns Efficiency Ratio (i.e., Sharpe Ratio) of 0.12, which indicates the fund had a 0.12% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-eight technical indicators for Vanguard Small Cap Index, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please validate Vanguard Small's Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.1043, semi deviation of 0.765, and Coefficient Of Variation of 742.99 to confirm if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.12%. The entity has a beta of 0.0217, which indicates not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Vanguard Small's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Vanguard Small is expected to be smaller as well.

Auto-correlation

    
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Very weak reverse predictability

Vanguard Small Cap Index has very weak reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Vanguard Small time series from 30th of November 2022 to 25th of November 2023 and 25th of November 2023 to 19th 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 Vanguard Small Cap price movement. The serial correlation of -0.09 indicates that less than 9.0% of current Vanguard Small price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.09
Spearman Rank Test0.04
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance35.45

Vanguard Small Cap lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Vanguard Small 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 Vanguard Small's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Vanguard Small returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Vanguard Small 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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Vanguard Small 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 Vanguard Small mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Vanguard Small mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Vanguard Small mutual fund over time.
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Vanguard Small Lagged Returns

When evaluating Vanguard Small's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Vanguard Small mutual fund have on its future price. Vanguard Small 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, Vanguard Small autocorrelation shows the relationship between Vanguard Small mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Vanguard Small Cap Index.
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