First Trust Specialty Fund Short Ratio
| FGB Fund | USD 4.22 0.06 1.44% |
First Trust Specialty 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 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 fund.
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First Trust Specialty Fund Short Ratio Analysis
First Trust's Short Ratio is typically used by traders and speculators to identify trends in current market sentiment for a particular equity instrument. In its simple terms this ratio shows how many days it will take all current short sellers to cover their positions if the price of a stock begins to rise.
Current First Trust Short Ratio | 0.38 X |
Most of First Trust's fundamental indicators, such as Short Ratio, 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 Specialty is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
The higher the Short Ratio, the longer it would take to buy back the borrowed shares. In theory, the more short positions are currently outstanding, the faster it will be to cover shorted positions.
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Based on the latest financial disclosure, First Trust Specialty has a Short Ratio of 0.38 times. This is much higher than that of the Financial Services family and significantly higher than that of the Asset Management category. The short ratio for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.
First Short Ratio Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses First Trust's direct or indirect competition against its Short Ratio to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of First Trust could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing First Trust by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.First Trust is currently under evaluation in short ratio among similar funds.
First Fundamentals
| Shares Outstanding | 14.37 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 16.39 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 32.53 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 20.67 K | ||||
| Price To Earning | 48.00 X | ||||
| Gross Profit | 16.53 M | ||||
| Short Ratio | 0.38 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 0.07 X | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 14 | ||||
| Beta | 0.99 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 59.19 M | ||||
| Total Asset | 80.46 M | ||||
| Retained Earnings | (204.56 M) | ||||
| Annual Yield | 0.02 % | ||||
| Year To Date Return | 14.34 % | ||||
| One Year Return | 20.47 % | ||||
| Three Year Return | 8.11 % | ||||
| Five Year Return | 3.39 % | ||||
| Last Dividend Paid | 0.33 |
About First Trust Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze First Trust Specialty'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 Specialty based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this 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.
Please read more on our fundamental analysis page.
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