Davis Financial Correlations

DVFYX Fund  USD 69.86  1.07  1.56%   
The current 90-days correlation between Davis Financial and Short Term Government Fund is 0.16 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Davis Financial 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.

Davis Financial Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Davis Financial Fund and DJI is 0.74 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Davis Financial Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Davis Financial Fund. 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 manufacturing.

Moving together with Davis Mutual Fund

  0.94RPFGX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.73RPFCX Davis Appreciation IncomePairCorr
  0.66RPFRX Davis Real EstatePairCorr
  0.91RPEAX Davis OpportunityPairCorr
  0.81DNVYX Davis New YorkPairCorr
  0.66DRECX Davis Real EstatePairCorr
  0.81NYVCX Davis New YorkPairCorr
  0.92NYVBX Davis New YorkPairCorr
  0.92NYVRX Davis New YorkPairCorr
  0.81NYVTX Davis New YorkPairCorr
  0.73DCSCX Davis Appreciation IncomePairCorr
  0.77DCSYX Davis Appreciation IncomePairCorr
  0.84DFFCX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.81DGOCX Davis OpportunityPairCorr
  0.87DGOYX Davis OpportunityPairCorr
  0.82VFAIX Vanguard Financials IndexPairCorr
  0.73FRBCX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.64JRGRX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.89PRISX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.73FIDCX Financial IndustriesPairCorr
  0.73JFDRX Financial IndustriesPairCorr
  0.79TFIFX T Rowe PricePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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