Wasatch Small Correlations

WMCVX Fund  USD 9.26  0.17  1.80%   
The current 90-days correlation between Wasatch Small Cap and Madison Diversified Income is -0.13 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Wasatch Small 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 Small Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Wasatch Small Cap and DJI is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Wasatch Small 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 Small Cap. 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 unemployment.

Moving together with Wasatch Mutual Fund

  0.74WAAEX Wasatch Small CapPairCorr
  0.87WAGSX Wasatch Global SelectPairCorr
  0.74WAGOX Wasatch Global OpporPairCorr
  0.62WAFMX Wasatch Frontier EmergingPairCorr
  0.74WAIOX Wasatch InternationalPairCorr
  0.78WAISX Wasatch InternationalPairCorr
  0.82WAIGX Wasatch InternationalPairCorr
  0.63WALSX Wasatch Longshort AlphaPairCorr
  0.78WGISX Wasatch InternationalPairCorr
  0.87WGGSX Wasatch Global SelectPairCorr
  0.63WGLSX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.91WGROX Wasatch E GrowthPairCorr
  0.74WIAEX Wasatch Small CapPairCorr
  1.0WICVX Wasatch Small CapPairCorr
  0.75WIFMX Wasatch Frontier EmergingPairCorr
  0.83WIIGX Wasatch InternationalPairCorr
  0.78WIIOX Wasatch InternationalPairCorr
  0.91WIGRX Wasatch E GrowthPairCorr
  0.74WIGOX Wasatch Global OpporPairCorr

Moving against Wasatch Mutual Fund

  0.66WAIVX Wasatch InternationalPairCorr
  0.55SMPSX Semiconductor UltrasectorPairCorr
  0.55SMPIX Semiconductor UltrasectorPairCorr
  0.44WILCX Wasatch Large CapPairCorr
  0.43FMIEX Wasatch Large CapPairCorr
  0.41RSNRX Victory Global NaturalPairCorr
  0.41RGNCX Victory Global NaturalPairCorr
  0.39RSNYX Victory Global NaturalPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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