Capital Income Correlations

CIBFX Fund  USD 77.91  0.35  0.45%   
The current 90-days correlation between Capital Income Builder and Capital Income Builder is 0.04 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Capital Income 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.

Capital Income Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Capital Income Builder and DJI is 0.51 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Capital Income Builder and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Capital Mutual Fund

  0.94AMECX Income FundPairCorr
  0.95AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.95AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.93CUSEX Capital Group EquityPairCorr
  0.92AMPCX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.91AMPFX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.64TEPCX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.67TEPAX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.68TEPFX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.67ANCFX American Funds FundaPairCorr
  0.95ANFCX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.94ANEFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.95ANFFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.95NPFCX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.95NPFFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.89ANWPX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.82BALFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.94BALCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.95CWGIX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.95CWGFX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.95CWGCX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.78WSHFX Washington MutualPairCorr
  0.94WSHCX Washington MutualPairCorr
  0.87FAATX American Funds 2010PairCorr
  0.82FAETX American Funds 2030PairCorr

Moving against Capital Mutual Fund

  0.7AMRMX American MutualPairCorr
  0.41EMRGX Emerging Markets GrowthPairCorr
  0.4EMGEX Emerging Markets GrowthPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Capital Mutual Fund performing well and Capital Income 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 Capital Income'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
CIRAX  0.37  0.03 (0.10) 0.31  0.36 
 0.75 
 1.81 
CAIBX  0.45  0.10  0.07  0.67  0.18 
 0.80 
 5.72 
RIRGX  0.44  0.07  0.06  0.23  0.21 
 0.82 
 5.05 
AMECX  0.47  0.14  0.13  28.94  0.00 
 0.79 
 7.23 
IFAFX  0.36  0.01 (0.08) 0.10  0.32 
 0.78 
 1.65 
RIDGX  0.47  0.11  0.14  0.32  0.00 
 0.79 
 7.19 
SWPPX  0.61  0.03 (0.04) 0.28  0.94 
 1.27 
 3.73 
RWICX  0.76  0.18  0.17  0.35  0.54 
 1.26 
 10.56 
AEPGX  0.78  0.21  0.17  0.86  0.56 
 1.42 
 10.43 
RERHX  0.79  0.16  0.18  0.27  0.55 
 1.42 
 10.50