Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund Beta

JOF Fund  USD 8.01  0.05  0.63%   
Japan Smaller Capitalization fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Japan Smaller's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Japan Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Japan Smaller'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 Japan Smaller fund.
  
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Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund Beta Analysis

Japan Smaller's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.

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Current Japan Smaller Beta

    
  0.66  
Most of Japan Smaller's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Japan Smaller Capitalization is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Japan Smaller Capitalization has a Beta of 0.66. This is much higher than that of the Financial Services family and significantly higher than that of the Asset Management category. The beta for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Japan Beta Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Japan Smaller's direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Japan Smaller could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Japan Smaller by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Japan Smaller is currently under evaluation in beta among similar funds.
As returns on the market increase, Japan Smaller's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Japan Smaller is expected to be smaller as well.

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About Japan Smaller Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Japan Smaller Capitalization's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Japan Smaller using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Japan Smaller Capitalization 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.
Please read more on our fundamental analysis page.

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Japan Smaller financial ratios help investors to determine whether Japan Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Japan with respect to the benefits of owning Japan Smaller security.
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