Baron Asset Fund Fundamentals

BARAX Fund  USD 93.56  0.31  0.33%   
Baron Asset Fund fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Baron Asset's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Baron Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Baron Asset's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Baron Asset mutual fund.
  
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Baron Asset Fund Mutual Fund Year To Date Return Analysis

Baron Asset's Year to Date Return (YTD) is the total return generated from holding a security from the beginning of the current fiscal year. In other words, YTD Return represents the capital appreciation of your investments from the start of the current fiscal year.

YTD Return

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(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

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100%

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Current Baron Asset Year To Date Return

    
  2.16 %  
Most of Baron Asset's fundamental indicators, such as Year To Date Return, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Baron Asset Fund is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Year-To-Date typically refers to a period starting from the beginning of the current year and continuing up to the present day. Investors should becareful when comparing YTD ratios if not much of the year has occurred as research shows that YTD measures are more sensitive to early periods than late.
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In accordance with the company's disclosures, Baron Asset Fund has a Year To Date Return of 2.1582%. This is much higher than that of the Baron Capital Group, Inc. family and significantly higher than that of the Mid-Cap Growth category. The year to date return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Baron Asset Fund Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Baron Asset's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Baron Asset value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Baron Asset competition to find correlations between indicators driving Baron Asset's intrinsic value. More Info.
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Baron Asset Fund is the top fund in price to earning among similar funds. It also is the top fund in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.13  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Baron Asset Fund is roughly  7.48 . The reason why the comparable model can be used in almost all circumstances is due to the vast number of multiples that can be utilized, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), price-to-cash flow (P/CF), and many others. The P/E ratio is the most commonly used of these ratios because it focuses on the Baron Asset's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Baron Year To Date Return Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Baron Asset's direct or indirect competition against its Year To Date Return to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the mutual funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Baron Asset could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Baron Asset by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
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Baron Asset is currently under evaluation in year to date return among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Baron Asset

The fund invests 99.22% of asset under management in tradable equity instruments, with the rest of investments concentrated in cash (0.08%) and various exotic instruments (0.7%).
Asset allocation divides Baron Asset's investment portfolio among different asset categories to balance risk and reward by investing in a diversified mix of instruments that align with the investor's goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Mutual funds, which pool money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of securities, use asset allocation strategies to manage the risk and return of their portfolios.
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Mutual funds allocate their assets by investing in a diversified portfolio of securities, such as stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and cash. The specific mix of these securities is determined by the fund's investment objective and strategy. For example, a stock mutual fund may invest primarily in equities, while a bond mutual fund may invest mainly in fixed-income securities. The fund's manager, responsible for making investment decisions, will buy and sell securities in the fund's portfolio as market conditions and the fund's objectives change.

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About Baron Asset Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Baron Asset Fund's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Baron Asset using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Baron Asset Fund based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this mutual fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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The fund invests for the long term primarily in equity securities in the form of common stock of U.S. mid-sized growth companies. BAMCO, Inc. defines mid-sized companies as those, at the time of purchase, with market capitalizations above 2.5 billion or the smallest market cap stock in the Russell Midcap Growth Index at reconstitution, whichever is larger, and below the largest market cap stock in the Russell Midcap Growth Index at reconstitution.

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