Small Company Correlations

WSMGX Fund  USD 21.53  0.07  0.33%   
The current 90-days correlation between Small Pany Growth and Small Pany Value is 0.81 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Small Company 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.

Small Company Correlation With Market

Weak diversification

The correlation between Small Pany Growth and DJI is 0.34 (i.e., Weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Small Pany Growth and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Your Current Watchlist to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Small Pany Growth. 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 price.

Moving together with Small Mutual Fund

  0.77WSMVX Small Pany ValuePairCorr
  0.89WFIVX Wilshire 5000 IndexPairCorr
  0.65WIORX Wilshire Income OpportPairCorr
  0.89WINDX Wilshire 5000 IndexPairCorr
  0.74WLCGX Large Pany GrowthPairCorr
  0.7WLCVX Large Pany ValuePairCorr
  0.72DTLGX Wilshire LargePairCorr
  0.7DTLVX Large Pany ValuePairCorr
  0.75DTSVX Small Pany ValuePairCorr
  0.96DTSGX Small Pany GrowthPairCorr
  0.77VSGAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.77VSGIX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.76VISGX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.75VEXPX Vanguard ExplorerPairCorr
  0.75VEXRX Vanguard ExplorerPairCorr
  0.64JGMIX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.64JGMAX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.61JGMCX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.63JGMNX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.68GPBFX Gmo E PlusPairCorr
  0.76WARCX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.79JQLBX Multimanager LifestylePairCorr
  0.66NAN Nuveen New YorkPairCorr
  0.83FZROX Fidelity Zero TotalPairCorr
  0.78VPMAX Vanguard PrimecapPairCorr

Moving against Small Mutual Fund

  0.34GAAKX Gmo Alternative AlloPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Small Mutual Fund performing well and Small Company 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 Small Company'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.