Amcap Fund Correlations

AMPFX Fund  USD 40.46  0.06  0.15%   
The current 90-days correlation between Amcap Fund Class and Europacific Growth Fund is -0.22 (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 census.

Moving together with Amcap Mutual Fund

  1.0FAFGX American FundsPairCorr
  1.0FFAFX American FundsPairCorr
  1.0GFACX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0GFAFX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0AGTHX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFFX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFCX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFAX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0CGFEX Growth FundPairCorr
  1.0RGAEX Growth FundPairCorr
  0.81VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.81VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.81VTSMX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.81VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.81VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.81VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.81VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.81VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.69WMT WalmartPairCorr
  0.63HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.87AXP American ExpressPairCorr
  0.82BAC Bank of AmericaPairCorr

Moving against Amcap Mutual Fund

  0.56VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.56TRV The Travelers CompaniesPairCorr
  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.