Harris Associates Investment Fund Retained Earnings

Retained Earnings shows how the firm utilizes its profits over time. In simple terms, investors can think of retained earnings as the amount of profit the company has reinvested in the business since its inceptions. However the methodology to make a decision over how much profit to retain is different between companies in different industries. For example, growing industries tend to retain more of their earnings than more matured industries as they need more assets investment to sustain their growth.

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Harris Associates Investment has a Retained Earnings of 0.0. This indicator is about the same for the Oakmark average (which is currently at 0.0) family and about the same as Intermediate Core-Plus Bond (which currently averages 0.0) category. This indicator is about the same for all United States funds average (which is currently at 0.0).

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Harris Associates Investment's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Harris Associates using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Harris Associates Investment 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.

Harris Associates financial ratios help investors to determine whether Harris 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 Harris with respect to the benefits of owning Harris Associates security.