American High Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American High Income and Smallcap Growth Fund is 0.24 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of American High is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

American High Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between American High Income and DJI is 0.68 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American High Income and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American High Income. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in producer price index.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  1.0AHTCX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.97BHYCX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.99BHYIX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.98BHYSX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.98BHYAX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  1.0AHTFX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.99VWEHX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.99VWEAX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.98PHYZX Prudential High YieldPairCorr
  0.83VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.83VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.68VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.79VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.8VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.9VTSNX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.9VTISX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.9VTPSX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.8VINIX Vanguard InstitutionalPairCorr
  0.82BA Boeing Earnings Call TomorrowPairCorr
  0.73WMT Walmart Common Stock Sell-off TrendPairCorr

Moving against American Mutual Fund

  0.47T ATT Inc Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.4HPQ HP IncPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between American Mutual Fund performing well and American High Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze American High's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.