Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund Market Value

NAESX Fund  USD 123.43  1.88  1.55%   
Vanguard Small-cap's market value is the price at which a share of Vanguard Small-cap trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Vanguard Small Cap Index investors about its performance. Vanguard Small-cap is trading at 123.43 as of the 25th of November 2024; that is 1.55 percent up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 121.55.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Vanguard Small Cap Index and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Vanguard Small-cap over a given investment horizon. Check out Vanguard Small-cap Correlation, Vanguard Small-cap Volatility and Vanguard Small-cap Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Vanguard Small-cap.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Vanguard Small-cap's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Vanguard Small-cap is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Vanguard Small-cap'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.

Vanguard Small-cap '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 Vanguard Small-cap's mutual fund 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 Vanguard Small-cap.
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02/29/2024
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If you would invest  0.00  in Vanguard Small-cap on February 29, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Vanguard Small Cap Index or generate 0.0% return on investment in Vanguard Small-cap over 270 days. Vanguard Small-cap is related to or competes with Vanguard Mid-cap, Vanguard Reit, Vanguard Value, Vanguard Small-cap, and Vanguard Emerging. The fund advisor employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the CRSP US Small Cap Inde... More

Vanguard Small-cap 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 Vanguard Small-cap's mutual fund 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 Vanguard Small Cap Index upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Vanguard Small-cap Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Vanguard Small-cap's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Vanguard Small-cap's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Vanguard Small-cap historical prices to predict the future Vanguard Small-cap's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Vanguard Small-cap's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
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122.43123.44124.45
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123.24124.25125.26
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LowNextHigh
120.03121.05122.06
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121.03122.80124.58
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Vanguard Small Cap Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Vanguard Mutual Fund to be very steady. Vanguard Small Cap owns Efficiency Ratio (i.e., Sharpe Ratio) of 0.17, which indicates the fund had a 0.17% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-eight technical indicators for Vanguard Small Cap Index, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please validate Vanguard Small-cap's Semi Deviation of 0.6692, coefficient of variation of 532.62, and Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.1467 to confirm if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.17%. The entity has a beta of 1.23, which indicates a somewhat significant risk relative to the market. As the market goes up, the company is expected to outperform it. However, if the market returns are negative, Vanguard Small-cap will likely underperform.

Auto-correlation

    
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Insignificant reverse predictability

Vanguard Small Cap Index has insignificant reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Vanguard Small-cap time series from 29th of February 2024 to 13th of July 2024 and 13th of July 2024 to 25th 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 Vanguard Small Cap price movement. The serial correlation of -0.12 indicates that less than 12.0% of current Vanguard Small-cap price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.12
Spearman Rank Test-0.3
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance20.74

Vanguard Small Cap lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Vanguard Small-cap mutual fund'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 Vanguard Small-cap's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Vanguard Small-cap returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Vanguard Small-cap has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the mutual fund 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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Vanguard Small-cap 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 Vanguard Small-cap mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Vanguard Small-cap mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Vanguard Small-cap mutual fund over time.
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Vanguard Small-cap Lagged Returns

When evaluating Vanguard Small-cap's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Vanguard Small-cap mutual fund have on its future price. Vanguard Small-cap 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, Vanguard Small-cap autocorrelation shows the relationship between Vanguard Small-cap mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Vanguard Small Cap Index.
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