Alger Small Cap Focus Fund Q3 2024 Commentary - Seeking Alpha
| AOFYX Fund | USD 21.12 0.15 0.71% |
Slightly above 62% of Alger Small's investor base is looking to short. The analysis of overall sentiment of trading Alger Small Cap mutual fund suggests that many investors are alarmed at this time. Alger Small's investing sentiment can be driven by a variety of factors including economic data, Alger Small's earnings reports, geopolitical events, and overall market trends.
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Alger Small Cap Focus Fund Q3 2024 Commentary Seeking Alpha
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Alger Small Fundamental Analysis
We analyze Alger Small's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Alger Small using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Alger Small 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.
One Year Return
One Year Return Comparative Analysis
Alger Small is fourth largest fund in one year return among similar funds. One Year Return is the annualized return generated from holding a security for exactly 12 months. The measure is considered to be good short-term measures of fund performance. In other words, it represents the capital appreciation of fund investments over the last year. However when the market is volatile such as in recent years, One Year Return measure can be misleading.
Alger Small Cap Potential Pair-trading
One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Alger Small mutual fund to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Alger Small could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Alger Small by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
Peers
Alger Small Related Equities
| AMGOX | Alger Mid | 1.75 | ||||
| AAEMX | Alger Emerging | 0.46 | ||||
| CHUSX | Alger Global | 0.25 | ||||
| CHUCX | Alger Global | 0.24 | ||||
| AMGAX | Alger Midcap | 0.06 | ||||
| AMGCX | Alger Midcap | 0.11 | ||||
| AOFAX | Alger Small | 0.70 | ||||
| AOFCX | Alger Small | 0.70 | ||||
| AOFYX | Alger Small | 0.71 |
Other Information on Investing in Alger Mutual Fund
Alger Small financial ratios help investors to determine whether Alger Mutual 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 Alger with respect to the benefits of owning Alger Small security.
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