Franklin Natural Resources Fund Market Value

FNCSX Fund  USD 31.71  0.25  0.79%   
Franklin Natural's market value is the price at which a share of Franklin Natural trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Franklin Natural Resources investors about its performance. Franklin Natural is trading at 31.71 as of the 4th of January 2025; that is 0.79% up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 31.46.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Franklin Natural Resources and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Franklin Natural over a given investment horizon. Check out Franklin Natural Correlation, Franklin Natural Volatility and Franklin Natural Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Franklin Natural.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Franklin Natural's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Franklin Natural is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Franklin Natural's 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.

Franklin Natural '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 Franklin Natural's 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 Franklin Natural.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Franklin Natural on November 5, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Franklin Natural Resources or generate 0.0% return on investment in Franklin Natural over 60 days. Franklin Natural is related to or competes with Franklin Mutual, Templeton Developing, Franklin Mutual, Franklin Mutual, Franklin Mutual, Templeton Foreign, and Templeton Foreign. Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80 percent of its net assets in the equity and debt securities... More

Franklin Natural 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 Franklin Natural's 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 Franklin Natural Resources upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Franklin Natural Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Franklin Natural's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Franklin Natural's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Franklin Natural historical prices to predict the future Franklin Natural's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Franklin Natural's 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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30.7231.7132.70
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30.9731.9632.95
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31.9932.9833.97
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30.5531.3332.10
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Franklin Natural Res Backtested Returns

Franklin Natural Res secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of -0.15, which denotes the fund had a -0.15% return per unit of standard deviation over the last 3 months. Franklin Natural Resources exposes twenty-one different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please confirm Franklin Natural's Coefficient Of Variation of (943.96), standard deviation of 0.985, and Mean Deviation of 0.7627 to check the risk estimate we provide. The fund shows a Beta (market volatility) of 0.18, which means not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Franklin Natural's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Franklin Natural is expected to be smaller as well.

Auto-correlation

    
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Good reverse predictability

Franklin Natural Resources has good reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Franklin Natural time series from 5th of November 2024 to 5th of December 2024 and 5th of December 2024 to 4th of January 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 Franklin Natural Res price movement. The serial correlation of -0.57 indicates that roughly 57.0% of current Franklin Natural price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.57
Spearman Rank Test-0.36
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance1.39

Franklin Natural Res lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Franklin Natural 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 Franklin Natural's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Franklin Natural returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Franklin Natural 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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Franklin Natural 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 Franklin Natural mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Franklin Natural mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Franklin Natural mutual fund over time.
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Franklin Natural Lagged Returns

When evaluating Franklin Natural's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Franklin Natural mutual fund have on its future price. Franklin Natural 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, Franklin Natural autocorrelation shows the relationship between Franklin Natural mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Franklin Natural Resources.
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