Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund Fundamentals

JOF Fund  USD 7.57  0.02  0.26%   
Japan Smaller Capitalization fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Japan Smaller's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Japan Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Japan Smaller'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 Japan Smaller fund.
  
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Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund Price To Book Analysis

Japan Smaller's Price to Book (P/B) ratio is used to relate a company book value to its current market price. A high P/B ratio indicates that investors expect executives to generate more returns on their investments from a given set of assets. Book value is the accounting value of assets minus liabilities.

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Current Japan Smaller Price To Book

    
  0.67 X  
Most of Japan Smaller's fundamental indicators, such as Price To Book, 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, Japan Smaller Capitalization is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Price to Book ratio is mostly used in financial services industries where assets and liabilities are typically represented by dollars. Although low Price to Book ratio generally implies that the firm is undervalued, it is often a good indicator that the company may be in financial or managerial distress and should be investigated more carefully.
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Based on the latest financial disclosure, Japan Smaller Capitalization has a Price To Book of 0.67 times. This is much higher than that of the Financial Services family and significantly higher than that of the Asset Management category. The price to book for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Japan Smaller Capita Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Japan Smaller's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Japan Smaller value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Japan Smaller competition to find correlations between indicators driving Japan Smaller's intrinsic value. More Info.
Japan Smaller Capitalization is rated third overall fund in price to earning among similar funds. It is rated below average in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.08  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Japan Smaller Capitalization is roughly  13.19 . Comparative valuation analysis is a catch-all technique that is used if you cannot value Japan Smaller by discounting back its dividends or cash flows. It compares the stock's price multiples to nearest competition to determine if the stock is relatively undervalued or overvalued.

Japan Price To Book Peer Comparison

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

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About Japan Smaller Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Japan Smaller Capitalization's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Japan Smaller using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Japan Smaller Capitalization 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.
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Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by Nomura Asset Management U.S.A. Inc. It is managed by Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Japan. It invests in stocks traded on the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya Stock Exchanges, JASDAQ, Mothers, Hercules, Centrex, and other indices. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in stocks of small cap companies. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the The RussellNomura Small Cap Index. It was formerly known as Japan OTC Equity Fund, Inc. Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund, Inc. was formed on March 22, 1990 and is domiciled in the United States.

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Japan Smaller financial ratios help investors to determine whether Japan 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 Japan with respect to the benefits of owning Japan Smaller security.
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