Baron Small Cap Fund Fundamentals

BSCUX Fund  USD 40.10  0.04  0.1%   
Baron Small Cap fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Baron Small'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 Small'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 Small mutual fund.
  
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Baron Small Cap Mutual Fund Five Year Return Analysis

Baron Small's Five Year Return is considered one of the best measures to evaluate fund performance, especially from the mid and long term perspective. It shows the total annualized return generated from holding equity for the last five years and represents capital appreciation of the investment, including all dividends, losses, and capital gains distributions.

Five Year Return

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(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

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100%

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Current Baron Small Five Year Return

    
  12.57 %  
Most of Baron Small's fundamental indicators, such as Five Year 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 Small Cap is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Although Five Year Returns can give a sense of overall investment potential, it is recommended to compare equity performance with similar assets for the same five year time interval. Similarly, comparing overall investment performance over the last five years with the appropriate market index is a great way to determine how this equity instrument will perform during unforeseen market fluctuations.
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Baron Small Five Year Return Component Assessment

According to the company disclosure, Baron Small Cap has a Five Year Return of 12.5731%. This is 33.01% lower than that of the Baron Capital Group family and 26.64% lower than that of the Small Growth category. The five year return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Baron Small Cap Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Baron Small's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Baron Small value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Baron Small competition to find correlations between indicators driving Baron Small's intrinsic value. More Info.
Baron Small Cap is the top fund in year to date return among similar funds. It also is the top fund in one year return among similar funds reporting about  1.54  of One Year Return per Year To Date Return. 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 Small's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Baron Five Year Return Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Baron Small's direct or indirect competition against its Five Year 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 Small could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Baron Small by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Baron Small is currently under evaluation in five year return among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Baron Small

The fund consists of 93.11% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments.
Asset allocation divides Baron Small'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 Small Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Baron Small Cap's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Baron Small using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Baron Small Cap 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 80 percent of its net assets in equity securities in the form of common stock of U.S. small-sized growth companies. BAMCO, Inc. defines small-sized companies as those, at the time of purchase, with market capitalizations up to the largest market cap stock in the Russell 2000 Growth Index at reconstitution, or companies with market capitalizations up to 2.5 billion, whichever is larger.

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Baron Small 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 Small security.
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