First Trust Short Fund Five Year Return

FDHAX Fund  USD 18.12  0.01  0.06%   
First Trust Short fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to First Trust's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of First Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure First Trust'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 First Trust mutual fund.
  
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First Trust Short Mutual Fund Five Year Return Analysis

First Trust'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

 = 

(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

X

100%

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Current First Trust Five Year Return

    
  3.98 %  
Most of First Trust'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, First Trust Short 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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According to the company disclosure, First Trust Short has a Five Year Return of 3.9782%. This is much higher than that of the First Trust family and significantly higher than that of the Bank Loan category. The five year return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

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Fund Asset Allocation for First Trust

The fund invests most of its assets under management in various types of exotic instruments, with the rest of asset invested in stocks, cash and bonds.
Asset allocation divides First Trust'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 First Trust Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze First Trust Short's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of First Trust using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of First Trust Short 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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First Trust financial ratios help investors to determine whether First 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 First with respect to the benefits of owning First Trust security.
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