Amcap Fund Correlations

AMPCX Fund  USD 36.03  0.18  0.50%   
The current 90-days correlation between Amcap Fund Class and Smallcap World Fund is 0.26 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Amcap Fund 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.

Amcap Fund Correlation With Market

Almost no diversification

The correlation between Amcap Fund Class and DJI is 0.93 (i.e., Almost no diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Amcap Fund Class 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 Amcap Fund Class. 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 unemployment.

Moving together with Amcap Mutual Fund

  0.94AMECX Income FundPairCorr
  0.96AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.94AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.71AMHIX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.61TECFX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  1.0AMPFX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.84TEPFX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.63ANBAX American Funds StrategicPairCorr
  0.84ANCFX American Funds FundaPairCorr
  0.93ANEFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.77ANFFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.75NPFCX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.94NPFFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.88PGGFX American Funds GlobalPairCorr
  0.92ANWPX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.88BALFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.76BALCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.93CWGIX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.95CWGFX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.95CWGCX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.89WSHFX Washington MutualPairCorr
  0.95WSHCX Washington MutualPairCorr
  0.68FAATX American Funds 2010PairCorr
  0.89FAETX American Funds 2030PairCorr
  0.63WBFFX Capital World BondPairCorr
  0.89FAFWX American Funds RetirementPairCorr
  0.89FAITX American Funds 2050PairCorr
  0.88FAJTX American Funds 2055PairCorr
  0.9FAKTX American Funds 2015PairCorr
  0.9FAOTX American Funds 2020PairCorr
  0.89FAQTX American Funds 2035PairCorr
  0.9FAPTX American Funds 2025PairCorr
  0.89FATTX American Funds 2045PairCorr

Moving against Amcap Mutual Fund

  0.64AMRMX American MutualPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Amcap Mutual Fund performing well and Amcap Fund 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 Amcap Fund'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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
AMCPX  0.68  0.07  0.01  1.02  0.92 
 1.35 
 5.26 
RAFFX  0.65  0.07  0.05  0.16  0.82 
 1.35 
 5.06 
AMFFX  0.57  0.14  0.09 (3.76) 0.52 
 0.87 
 7.65 
RMFGX  0.49  0.00 (0.03) 0.07  0.60 
 0.85 
 3.20 
NWFFX  0.61  0.15  0.19  0.30  0.30 
 1.47 
 7.09 
NFFFX  0.61  0.15  0.19  0.30  0.30 
 1.46 
 7.09 
RNWGX  0.61  0.15  0.19  0.30  0.30 
 1.47 
 7.06 
NEWFX  0.63  0.17  0.17  0.88  0.37 
 1.47 
 7.07 
RLLGX  0.77  0.12  0.14  0.20  0.56 
 1.46 
 6.37 
SMCWX  0.77  0.14  0.12  0.57  0.58 
 1.46 
 6.57