Lazard Small Mid Cap Fund Fundamentals

LZCOX Fund  USD 12.60  0.08  0.64%   
Lazard Small Mid Cap fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Lazard Small's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Lazard Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Lazard Small'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 Lazard Small mutual fund.
  
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Lazard Small Mid Cap Mutual Fund Price To Book Analysis

Lazard Small's Price to Book (P/B) ratio is used to relate a company book value to its current market price. A high P/B ratio indicates that investors expect executives to generate more returns on their investments from a given set of assets. Book value is the accounting value of assets minus liabilities.

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Current Lazard Small Price To Book

    
  2.06 X  
Most of Lazard Small's fundamental indicators, such as Price To Book, 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, Lazard Small Mid Cap is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Price to Book ratio is mostly used in financial services industries where assets and liabilities are typically represented by dollars. Although low Price to Book ratio generally implies that the firm is undervalued, it is often a good indicator that the company may be in financial or managerial distress and should be investigated more carefully.
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Based on the latest financial disclosure, Lazard Small Mid Cap has a Price To Book of 2.06 times. This is much higher than that of the Lazard family and significantly higher than that of the Small Blend category. The price to book for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Lazard Small Mid Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Lazard Small's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Lazard Small value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Lazard Small competition to find correlations between indicators driving Lazard Small's intrinsic value. More Info.
Lazard Small Mid Cap is rated below average in price to earning among similar funds. It is rated fifth overall fund in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.10  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Lazard Small Mid Cap is roughly  9.52 . The reason why the comparable model can be used in almost all circumstances is due to the vast number of multiples that can be utilized, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), price-to-cash flow (P/CF), and many others. The P/E ratio is the most commonly used of these ratios because it focuses on the Lazard Small's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Lazard Price To Book Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Lazard Small's direct or indirect competition against its Price To Book to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the mutual funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Lazard Small could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Lazard Small by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Lazard Small is rated fourth overall fund in price to book among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Lazard Small

The fund consists of 97.46% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments.
Asset allocation divides Lazard Small's investment portfolio among different asset categories to balance risk and reward by investing in a diversified mix of instruments that align with the investor's goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Mutual funds, which pool money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of securities, use asset allocation strategies to manage the risk and return of their portfolios.
Mutual funds allocate their assets by investing in a diversified portfolio of securities, such as stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and cash. The specific mix of these securities is determined by the fund's investment objective and strategy. For example, a stock mutual fund may invest primarily in equities, while a bond mutual fund may invest mainly in fixed-income securities. The fund's manager, responsible for making investment decisions, will buy and sell securities in the fund's portfolio as market conditions and the fund's objectives change.

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About Lazard Small Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Lazard Small Mid Cap's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Lazard Small using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Lazard Small Mid Cap based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this mutual 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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The Portfolio invests primarily in equity securities, principally common stocks, of small cap US companies. The Investment Manager considers small cap companies to be those companies that, at the time of initial purchase by the Portfolio, have market capitalizations within the range of companies included in the Russell 2000 Index. It invests at least 80 percent of its assets in equity securities of small-mid cap U.S. companies. The fund may invest up to 20 percent of its assets in securities of larger or smaller U.S. or non-U.S. companies.

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