Highland Small Cap Equity Fund Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

HSZYX Fund  USD 6.87  0.01  0.15%   
Assuming the 90 days horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Highland Small Cap Equity is 'Strong Hold'. A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell Highland Small Cap Equity given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards Highland Small-cap. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for Highland Small Cap Equity, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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Note, we conduct extensive research on individual funds such as Highland and provide practical buy, sell, or hold recommendation based on investors' investing horizon and their risk tolerance towards Highland Small Cap Equity. 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 manufacturing.

Execute Highland Small-cap Buy or Sell Advice

The Highland recommendation should be used to complement the buy-or-sell advice compiled from the current analysts' consensus on Highland Small Cap Equity. Macroaxis does not own or have any residual interests in Highland Small Cap Equity or other equities on which the buy-or-sell advice is provided. Please provide your input below to execute Highland Small-cap's advice using the current market data and latest reported fundamentals.

Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell Highland Small-capBuy Highland Small-cap
Strong Hold

Market Performance

GoodDetails

Volatility

Not too volatileDetails

Hype Condition

StaleDetails

Current Valuation

Fairly ValuedDetails

Odds Of Distress

LowDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Follows the market closelyDetails

Analyst Consensus

Not AvailableDetails
For the selected time horizon Highland Small Cap Equity has a Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.0965, Jensen Alpha of 0.0396, Total Risk Alpha of (0.04), Sortino Ratio of (0.01) and Treynor Ratio of 0.1865
We provide advice to complement the regular expert consensus on Highland Small-cap. Our dynamic recommendation engine utilizes a multidimensional algorithm to analyze the fund's potential to grow using all technical and fundamental data available at the time. Use Highland Small-cap one year return, as well as the relationship between the ten year return and cash position weight to ensure your buy or sell decision on Highland Small Cap is adequate.

Highland Small-cap Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Highland Small Cap generated five year return of -11.0%
This fund retains about 14.63% of its assets under management (AUM) in cash

Highland Small-cap Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Highland Small-cap's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Highland Small-cap's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Highland Small-cap daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Highland Small Cap Equity price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Highland Small-cap returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Highland Small-cap.
Mean Return
0.12
Value At Risk
-1.21
Potential Upside
1.62
Standard Deviation
0.96
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Highland Small-cap historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Highland Small-cap Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Highland Small-cap or Highland Funds sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Highland Small-cap's price will be affected by overall mutual fund market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Highland fund's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
0.04
β
Beta against Dow Jones0.58
σ
Overall volatility
0.97
Ir
Information ratio -0.01

Highland Small-cap Volatility Alert

Highland Small Cap Equity has low volatility with Treynor Ratio of 0.19, Maximum Drawdown of 5.8 and kurtosis of 4.89. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Highland Small-cap's mutual fund risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Highland Small-cap's mutual fund price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

Highland Small-cap Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Highland Small-cap's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Highland Small-cap's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Highland Small-cap and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Highland Small-cap or determine the mutual funds which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Highland Small-cap's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Highland Small-cap by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare Highland Small-cap to competition
FundamentalsHighland Small-capPeer Average
Price To Earning18.12 X6.53 X
Price To Book1.56 X0.74 X
Price To Sales0.83 X0.61 X
Year To Date Return3.46 %0.39 %
One Year Return12.05 %4.15 %
Three Year Return(7.60) %3.60 %
Five Year Return(11.48) %3.24 %
Ten Year Return6.20 %1.79 %
Net Asset9.78 M4.11 B
Last Dividend Paid0.080.65
Cash Position Weight14.63 %10.61 %
Equity Positions Weight63.37 %63.90 %
Bond Positions Weight1.29 %11.24 %

Highland Small-cap Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Highland . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

About Highland Small-cap Buy or Sell Advice

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