First Trust Intermediate Fund Retained Earnings

FPF Fund  USD 18.88  0.15  0.80%   
First Trust Intermediate fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to First Trust's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of First Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure First Trust's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to First Trust fund.
  
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First Trust Intermediate Fund Retained Earnings Analysis

First Trust's Retained Earnings is a balance sheet account that refers to the portion of company income that is retained by the firm. In other words, it is a part of earnings that is not paid out as dividends or otherwise distributed to owners. Retained Earnings are calculated by adding net income to last period retained earnings and subtracting any dividends paid to owners.

Retained Earnings

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Beginning RE + Income

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Dividends

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Retained Earnings shows how the firm utilizes its profits over time. In simple terms, investors can think of retained earnings as the amount of profit the company has reinvested in the business since its inceptions. However the methodology to make a decision over how much profit to retain is different between companies in different industries. For example, growing industries tend to retain more of their earnings than more matured industries as they need more assets investment to sustain their growth.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, First Trust Intermediate has a Retained Earnings of 0.0. This indicator is about the same for the Financial Services average (which is currently at 0.0) family and about the same as Asset Management (which currently averages 0.0) category. This indicator is about the same for all United States funds average (which is currently at 0.0).

First Retained Earnings Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses First Trust's direct or indirect competition against its Retained Earnings to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of First Trust could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing First Trust by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
First Trust is currently under evaluation in retained earnings among similar funds.

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About First Trust Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze First Trust Intermediate's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of First Trust using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of First Trust Intermediate based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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