VANGUARD ENERGY Variance

VENAX Fund  USD 82.48  0.95  1.17%   
Reference data associated with the Variance technical indicator for Vanguard Energy Index. Values may reflect normalized price or volume observations.
Vanguard Energy Index has current Variance of 1.77. Variance is another measure of security risk that shows the amount of dispersion of equity returns around their mean value. Variance is calculated as the average squared deviations from the mean. Evaluating a set of investment alternatives one can use variance to help determine the volatility when purchasing a specific security. Similar to Standard Deviation, the variance is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out around its mean.

Variance

 = 

SUM(RET DEV)2

N

 = 
1.77
SUM = Summation notation
RET DEV = Actual returns deviation over selected period
N = Number of points for the period

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Variance Relative To Other Indicators

Vanguard Energy Index is rated second in variance among similar funds. It is currently under evaluation in maximum drawdown among similar funds reporting about 2.88 of Maximum Drawdown per Variance. At 2.88 , Vanguard Energy Index's Maximum Drawdown-to-Variance multiple reflects the spread between these metrics
Variance is also a measure of stock volatility and can help determine the risk an investor might take on when purchasing a specific security. A relatively big variance indicates that the daily prices or returns are far from the mean and a small variance indicates that they are located around the mean. Compare VANGUARD ENERGY to Peers

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