Hennessy Gas Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Hennessy Gas Utility and Ultra Short Fixed Income is 0.01 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Hennessy Gas is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

Hennessy Gas Correlation With Market

Weak diversification

The correlation between Hennessy Gas Utility and DJI is 0.3 (i.e., Weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Hennessy Gas Utility and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Hennessy Gas Utility. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in price.

Moving together with Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.65HBFBX Hennessy BalancedPairCorr
  1.0HGASX Hennessy Gas UtilityPairCorr
  0.82FKUTX Franklin UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.77FRUSX Franklin UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.77FKUQX Franklin UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.82FRUAX Franklin UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.81FRURX Franklin UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.82FUFRX Franklin UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.74VUIAX Vanguard Utilities IndexPairCorr
  0.79MMUGX Mfs UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.79MURRX Mfs UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.74MMUJX Mfs UtilitiesPairCorr

Moving against Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.33HISFX Hennessy Small CapPairCorr
  0.33HSFNX Hennessy Small CapPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Hennessy Mutual Fund performing well and Hennessy Gas Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Hennessy Gas' multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.