The Alger Funds Fund Market Value

ASCYX Fund  USD 9.37  0.28  3.08%   
Alger Funds' market value is the price at which a share of Alger Funds trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of The Alger Funds investors about its performance. Alger Funds is trading at 9.37 as of the 15th of March 2025; that is 3.08 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 9.09.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of The Alger Funds and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Alger Funds over a given investment horizon. Check out Alger Funds Correlation, Alger Funds Volatility and Alger Funds Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Alger Funds.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Alger Funds' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Alger Funds is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Alger Funds' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.

Alger Funds 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Alger Funds' mutual fund what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Alger Funds.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Alger Funds on December 15, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding The Alger Funds or generate 0.0% return on investment in Alger Funds over 90 days. Alger Funds is related to or competes with Hawaii Municipal, Franklin Adjustable, Baird Quality, Us Government, Us Government, and Nuveen Strategic. The fund normally invests at least 80 percent of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity ... More

Alger Funds Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Alger Funds' mutual fund current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess The Alger Funds upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Alger Funds Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Alger Funds' investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Alger Funds' standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Alger Funds historical prices to predict the future Alger Funds' volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Alger Funds' price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
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Alger Funds Backtested Returns

Alger Funds secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of -0.21, which signifies that the fund had a -0.21 % return per unit of standard deviation over the last 3 months. The Alger Funds exposes twenty-one different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please confirm Alger Funds' Coefficient Of Variation of (398.39), mean deviation of 1.24, and Risk Adjusted Performance of (0.21) to double-check the risk estimate we provide. The fund shows a Beta (market volatility) of -0.16, which signifies not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, returns on owning Alger Funds are expected to decrease at a much lower rate. During the bear market, Alger Funds is likely to outperform the market.

Auto-correlation

    
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Insignificant reverse predictability

The Alger Funds has insignificant reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Alger Funds time series from 15th of December 2024 to 29th of January 2025 and 29th of January 2025 to 15th of March 2025. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Alger Funds price movement. The serial correlation of -0.16 indicates that over 16.0% of current Alger Funds price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.16
Spearman Rank Test-0.26
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.62

Alger Funds lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Alger Funds mutual fund's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Alger Funds' mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Alger Funds returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Alger Funds has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the mutual fund is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Alger Funds regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Alger Funds mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Alger Funds mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Alger Funds mutual fund over time.
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Alger Funds Lagged Returns

When evaluating Alger Funds' market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Alger Funds mutual fund have on its future price. Alger Funds autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Alger Funds autocorrelation shows the relationship between Alger Funds mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in The Alger Funds.
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Alger Funds 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 Funds security.
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