Westwood Smallcap Value Fund Market Value

WHGSX Fund  USD 23.41  0.06  0.26%   
Westwood Smallcap's market value is the price at which a share of Westwood Smallcap trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Westwood Smallcap Value investors about its performance. Westwood Smallcap is trading at 23.41 as of the 1st of December 2024; that is 0.26 percent up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 23.35.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Westwood Smallcap Value and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Westwood Smallcap over a given investment horizon. Check out Westwood Smallcap Correlation, Westwood Smallcap Volatility and Westwood Smallcap Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Westwood Smallcap.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Westwood Smallcap's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Westwood Smallcap is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Westwood Smallcap'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.

Westwood Smallcap '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 Westwood Smallcap'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 Westwood Smallcap.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Westwood Smallcap on June 4, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Westwood Smallcap Value or generate 0.0% return on investment in Westwood Smallcap over 180 days. Westwood Smallcap is related to or competes with Westwood Smidcap, Westwood Income, Westwood Largecap, Invesco DWA, and Diamond Hill. The fund invests at least 80 percent of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securitie... More

Westwood Smallcap 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 Westwood Smallcap'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 Westwood Smallcap Value upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Westwood Smallcap Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Westwood Smallcap's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Westwood Smallcap's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Westwood Smallcap historical prices to predict the future Westwood Smallcap's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Westwood Smallcap'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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22.1323.4124.69
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Westwood Smallcap Value Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Westwood Mutual Fund to be very steady. Westwood Smallcap Value shows Sharpe Ratio of 0.11, which attests that the fund had a 0.11% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-seven technical indicators for Westwood Smallcap Value, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please check out Westwood Smallcap's Downside Deviation of 1.05, market risk adjusted performance of 0.0812, and Mean Deviation of 0.8663 to validate if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.14%. The entity maintains a market beta of 1.42, which attests to a somewhat significant risk relative to the market. As the market goes up, the company is expected to outperform it. However, if the market returns are negative, Westwood Smallcap will likely underperform.

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Average predictability

Westwood Smallcap Value has average predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Westwood Smallcap time series from 4th of June 2024 to 2nd of September 2024 and 2nd of September 2024 to 1st 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 Westwood Smallcap Value price movement. The serial correlation of 0.48 indicates that about 48.0% of current Westwood Smallcap price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.48
Spearman Rank Test0.36
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.47

Westwood Smallcap Value lagged returns against current returns

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

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