Matthews Japan Fund Fundamentals

MIJFX Fund  USD 20.36  0.12  0.59%   
Matthews Japan Fund fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Matthews Japan's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Matthews Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Matthews Japan'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 Matthews Japan mutual fund.
  
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Matthews Japan Fund Mutual Fund Price To Book Analysis

Matthews Japan'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 Matthews Japan Price To Book

    
  2.09 X  
Most of Matthews Japan'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, Matthews Japan Fund 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, Matthews Japan Fund has a Price To Book of 2.09 times. This is 182.43% higher than that of the Matthews Asia Funds family and significantly higher than that of the Japan Stock category. The price to book for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Matthews Japan Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Matthews Japan's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Matthews Japan value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Matthews Japan competition to find correlations between indicators driving Matthews Japan's intrinsic value. More Info.
Matthews Japan Fund is number one fund in price to earning among similar funds. It also is number one fund in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.11  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Matthews Japan Fund is roughly  9.15 . 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 Matthews Japan's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Matthews Price To Book Peer Comparison

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

Fund Asset Allocation for Matthews Japan

The fund consists of 98.64% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments.
Asset allocation divides Matthews Japan'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 Matthews Japan Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Matthews Japan Fund's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Matthews Japan using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Matthews Japan 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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Under normal circumstances, the fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80 percent of its net assets, which include borrowings for investment purposes, in the common and preferred stocks of companies located in Japan. A company or other issuer is considered to be located in a country or a region, and a security or instrument is deemed to be an Asian security or instrument, if it has substantial ties to that country or region.

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Other Information on Investing in Matthews Mutual Fund

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