Baron Discovery Fund Fundamentals

BDFIX Fund  USD 34.32  0.46  1.36%   
Baron Discovery Fund fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Baron Discovery'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 Discovery'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 Discovery mutual fund.
  
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Baron Discovery Fund Mutual Fund Year To Date Return Analysis

Baron Discovery'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

 = 

(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

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100%

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Current Baron Discovery Year To Date Return

    
  15.28 %  
Most of Baron Discovery'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 Discovery 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.
Competition

In accordance with the company's disclosures, Baron Discovery Fund has a Year To Date Return of 15.2803%. This is much higher than that of the Baron Capital Group, Inc. family and significantly higher than that of the Small Growth category. The year to date return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Baron Discovery Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Baron Discovery's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Baron Discovery value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Baron Discovery competition to find correlations between indicators driving Baron Discovery's intrinsic value. More Info.
Baron Discovery 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  0.07  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Baron Discovery Fund is roughly  13.48 . 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 Discovery'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 Discovery'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 Discovery could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Baron Discovery by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Baron Discovery is currently under evaluation in year to date return among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Baron Discovery

The fund consists of 91.43% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments and various exotic instruments.
Asset allocation divides Baron Discovery'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.
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 Discovery Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Baron Discovery Fund's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Baron Discovery using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Baron Discovery 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 is a diversified fund that invests for the long term primarily in equity securities in the form of common stock of U.S. small-sized growth companies. The Adviser seeks to invest in businesses the adviser believes have significant opportunities for growth, sustainable competitive advantages, exceptional management, and an attractive valuation.

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Baron Discovery financial ratios help investors to determine whether Baron Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Baron with respect to the benefits of owning Baron Discovery security.
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