American Funds Correlations

CGPCX Fund  USD 24.66  1.61  6.13%   
The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Growth and Income Fund Of is 0.36 (i.e., Weak diversification). The correlation of American Funds 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.

American Funds Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between American Funds Growth and DJI is 0.15 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Growth 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 American Funds Growth. 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 American Mutual Fund

  0.73CDJAX American Funds CollegePairCorr
  0.67AMPCX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.75AMPFX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr

Moving against American Mutual Fund

  0.31RNEBX New World FundPairCorr
  0.46CDWEX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.46CDWCX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.45CDWFX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.45CDWAX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.33ANBEX American Funds StrategicPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
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High negative correlations   
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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between American Mutual Fund performing well and American Funds 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 American Funds' 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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
AMECX  0.39 (0.09) 0.00 (0.51) 0.00 
 0.66 
 5.01 
RNEBX  0.56 (0.12) 0.00 (1.04) 0.00 
 0.90 
 5.40 
AMFCX  0.52 (0.08) 0.00 (3.50) 0.00 
 0.84 
 6.86 
AMFFX  0.52 (0.08) 0.00 (3.23) 0.00 
 0.83 
 6.99 
RNCCX  0.30 (0.07) 0.00 (0.50) 0.00 
 0.52 
 2.14 
FPPPX  0.11 (0.03) 0.00  1.63  0.00 
 0.21 
 0.75 
AMEFX  0.40 (0.09) 0.00 (0.51) 0.00 
 0.66 
 5.05 
RNGGX  0.83 (0.06) 0.00  8.73  0.00 
 1.35 
 11.08 
RNGFX  0.85 (0.09) 0.00 (0.11) 0.00 
 1.35 
 11.00 
RNGHX  0.83 (0.06) 0.00  7.28  0.00 
 1.34 
 11.07