Firstrand (South Africa) Market Value

FSR Stock   7,765  27.00  0.35%   
Firstrand's market value is the price at which a share of Firstrand trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Firstrand investors about its performance. Firstrand is trading at 7765.00 as of the 26th of November 2024, a 0.35 percent decrease since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's lowest day price was 7731.0.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Firstrand and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Firstrand over a given investment horizon. Check out Firstrand Correlation, Firstrand Volatility and Firstrand Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Firstrand.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Firstrand's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Firstrand is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Firstrand's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.

Firstrand 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Firstrand's stock what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Firstrand.
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12/07/2022
No Change 0.00  0.0 
In 1 year 11 months and 21 days
11/26/2024
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If you would invest  0.00  in Firstrand on December 7, 2022 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Firstrand or generate 0.0% return on investment in Firstrand over 720 days. Firstrand is related to or competes with Sabvest Capital, Growthpoint Properties, Bowler Metcalf, Shoprite Holdings, Dis Chem, Impala Platinum, and Kap Industrial. More

Firstrand Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Firstrand's stock current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess Firstrand upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Firstrand Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Firstrand's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Firstrand's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Firstrand historical prices to predict the future Firstrand's volatility.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
7,7647,7657,766
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
7,7647,7657,766
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Naive
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LowNextHigh
7,9797,9807,981
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Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowerMiddle BandUpper
7,5647,7387,911
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Firstrand Backtested Returns

Firstrand secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of -0.0961, which denotes the company had a -0.0961% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. Firstrand exposes twenty-three different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please confirm Firstrand's Standard Deviation of 1.23, variance of 1.52, and Mean Deviation of 0.8996 to check the risk estimate we provide. The firm shows a Beta (market volatility) of 0.14, which means not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Firstrand's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Firstrand is expected to be smaller as well. At this point, Firstrand has a negative expected return of -0.12%. Please make sure to confirm Firstrand's accumulation distribution, day typical price, and the relationship between the skewness and rate of daily change , to decide if Firstrand performance from the past will be repeated at some point in the near future.

Auto-correlation

    
  0.62  

Good predictability

Firstrand has good predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Firstrand time series from 7th of December 2022 to 2nd of December 2023 and 2nd of December 2023 to 26th of November 2024. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Firstrand price movement. The serial correlation of 0.62 indicates that roughly 62.0% of current Firstrand price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.62
Spearman Rank Test0.48
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance737.8 K

Firstrand lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Firstrand stock's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Firstrand's stock expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Firstrand returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Firstrand has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the stock is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Firstrand regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Firstrand stock is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Firstrand stock is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Firstrand stock over time.
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Firstrand Lagged Returns

When evaluating Firstrand's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Firstrand stock have on its future price. Firstrand autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Firstrand autocorrelation shows the relationship between Firstrand stock current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Firstrand.
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Other Information on Investing in Firstrand Stock

Firstrand financial ratios help investors to determine whether Firstrand Stock 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 Firstrand with respect to the benefits of owning Firstrand security.