Wasatch Micro Correlations

WGICX Fund  USD 8.68  0.09  1.03%   
The current 90-days correlation between Wasatch Micro Cap and Pace Smallmedium Value is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Wasatch Micro 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.

Wasatch Micro Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Wasatch Micro Cap and DJI is 0.05 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Wasatch Micro Cap and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Your Current Watchlist to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Wasatch Micro Cap. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with Wasatch Mutual Fund

  0.76VSGAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.76VSGIX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.89VISGX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.92VEXPX Vanguard ExplorerPairCorr
  0.82VEXRX Vanguard ExplorerPairCorr
  0.78JGMIX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.78JGMRX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.78JGMAX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.77JGMCX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.79JGMNX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.73VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.63VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.78VTSMX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.78VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.63VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.79VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.77VTIAX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.73VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.64AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.73WMT Walmart Common StockPairCorr

Moving against Wasatch Mutual Fund

  0.36PG Procter GamblePairCorr
  0.35CVX Chevron CorpPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Wasatch Mutual Fund performing well and Wasatch Micro 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 Wasatch Micro's 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.