American Beacon Stephens Fund Market Value

SFMRX Fund  USD 39.31  0.37  0.95%   
American Beacon's market value is the price at which a share of American Beacon trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of American Beacon Stephens investors about its performance. American Beacon is trading at 39.31 as of the 26th of December 2024; that is 0.95% up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 38.94.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of American Beacon Stephens and determine expected loss or profit from investing in American Beacon over a given investment horizon. Check out American Beacon Correlation, American Beacon Volatility and American Beacon Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on American Beacon.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between American Beacon's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if American Beacon is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, American Beacon'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.

American Beacon '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 American Beacon'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 American Beacon.
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If you would invest  0.00  in American Beacon on November 26, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding American Beacon Stephens or generate 0.0% return on investment in American Beacon over 30 days. American Beacon is related to or competes with American Beacon, American Beacon, American Beacon, American Beacon, American Beacon, American Beacon, and American Beacon. Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80 percent of its net assets in equity securities of medium capita... More

American Beacon 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 American Beacon'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 American Beacon Stephens upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

American Beacon Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for American Beacon's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as American Beacon's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use American Beacon historical prices to predict the future American Beacon's volatility.
Hype
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LowEstimatedHigh
38.3139.3140.31
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
38.6039.6040.60
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LowNextHigh
37.2738.2839.28
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LowerMiddle BandUpper
27.5940.6853.76
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American Beacon Stephens Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider American Mutual Fund to be very steady. American Beacon Stephens secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of 0.0519, which signifies that the fund had a 0.0519% return per unit of standard deviation over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-seven technical indicators for American Beacon Stephens, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the entity. Please confirm American Beacon's mean deviation of 0.7398, and Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.0383 to double-check if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0521%. The fund shows a Beta (market volatility) of 0.92, which signifies possible diversification benefits within a given portfolio. American Beacon returns are very sensitive to returns on the market. As the market goes up or down, American Beacon is expected to follow.

Auto-correlation

    
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Insignificant predictability

American Beacon Stephens has insignificant predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between American Beacon time series from 26th of November 2024 to 11th of December 2024 and 11th of December 2024 to 26th of December 2024. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of American Beacon Stephens price movement. The serial correlation of 0.13 indicates that less than 13.0% of current American Beacon price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.13
Spearman Rank Test0.09
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance1.53

American Beacon Stephens lagged returns against current returns

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

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