Amcap Fund Correlations

AMPCX Fund  USD 32.50  0.05  0.15%   
The current 90-days correlation between Amcap Fund Class and Ab High Income is -0.26 (i.e., Very good diversification). The correlation of Amcap Fund 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.

Amcap Fund Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between Amcap Fund Class and DJI is -0.07 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Amcap Fund Class and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Amcap Fund Class. 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 main economic indicators.

Moving together with Amcap Mutual Fund

  1.0FAFGX American FundsPairCorr
  1.0FFAFX American FundsPairCorr
  1.0GFACX Growth FundPairCorr
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  1.0AGTHX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFFX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFCX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFAX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFEX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0RGAEX Growth FundPairCorr
  0.87AXP American ExpressPairCorr
  0.63HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.73BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.69WMT WalmartPairCorr
  0.8JPM JPMorgan ChasePairCorr

Moving against Amcap Mutual Fund

  0.57VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.41KO Coca ColaPairCorr
  0.4MCD McDonaldsPairCorr
  0.36PG Procter GamblePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Amcap Mutual Fund performing well and Amcap Fund 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 Amcap Fund'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.