Mfs Diversified Income Fund Manager Performance Evaluation

DIFCX Fund  USD 11.74  0.07  0.59%   
The fund secures a Beta (Market Risk) of 0.0181, which conveys not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Mfs Diversified's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Mfs Diversified is expected to be smaller as well.

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Compared to the overall equity markets, risk-adjusted returns on investments in Mfs Diversified Income are ranked lower than 1 (%) of all funds and portfolios of funds over the last 90 days. In spite of fairly strong fundamental indicators, Mfs Diversified is not utilizing all of its potentials. The current stock price disturbance, may contribute to short-term losses for the investors.
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Expense Ratio Date28th of June 2023
Expense Ratio1.6400
  

Mfs Diversified Relative Risk vs. Return Landscape

If you would invest  1,170  in Mfs Diversified Income on January 17, 2024 and sell it today you would earn a total of  4.00  from holding Mfs Diversified Income or generate 0.34% return on investment over 90 days. Mfs Diversified Income is currently producing 0.0062% returns and takes up 0.3744% volatility of returns over 90 trading days. Put another way, 3% of traded mutual funds are less volatile than Mfs, and 99% of all traded equity instruments are likely to generate higher returns over the next 90 trading days.
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Assuming the 90 days horizon Mfs Diversified is expected to generate 15.37 times less return on investment than the market. But when comparing it to its historical volatility, the company is 1.67 times less risky than the market. It trades about 0.02 of its potential returns per unit of risk. The NYSE Composite is currently generating roughly 0.15 of returns per unit of risk over similar time horizon.

Mfs Diversified Current Valuation

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Please note that Mfs Diversified's price fluctuation is very steady at this time. At this time, the fund appears to be fairly valued. Mfs Diversified Me secures a last-minute Real Value of $11.83 per share. The latest price of the fund is $11.74. We determine the value of Mfs Diversified Me from analyzing fund fundamentals and technical indicators as well as its Probability Of Bankruptcy. In general, we recommend acquiring undervalued mutual funds and dropping overvalued mutual funds since, at some point, mutual fund prices and their ongoing real values will merge together.
Our valuation method for Mfs Diversified Income is useful when determining the fair value of the Mfs mutual fund, which is usually determined by what a typical buyer is willing to pay for full or partial control of Mfs Diversified. Since Mfs Diversified is currently traded on the exchange, buyers and sellers on that exchange determine the market value of Mfs Mutual Fund. However, Mfs Diversified's intrinsic value may or may not be the same as its current market price, in which case there is an opportunity to profit from the mispricing, assuming the market price will eventually merge with its intrinsic value.
Historical Market  11.74 Real  11.83 Hype  11.81 Naive  11.79
The real value of Mfs Mutual Fund, also known as its intrinsic value, is the underlying worth of Mfs Diversified Me Mutual Fund, which is reflected in its stock price. It is based on Mfs Diversified's financial performance, assets, liabilities, growth prospects, management team, or industry conditions. The intrinsic value of Mfs Diversified's stock can be calculated using various methods such as discounted cash flow analysis, price-to-earnings ratio, or price-to-book ratio. That value may differ from its current market price, which is determined by supply and demand factors such as investor sentiment, market trends, news, and other external factors that may influence Mfs Diversified's stock price. It is important to note that the real value of any stock may change over time based on changes in the company's performance.
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Estimating the potential upside or downside of Mfs Diversified Income helps investors to forecast how Mfs mutual fund's addition to their portfolios will impact the overall performance. We also use other valuation drivers to help us estimate the true value of Mfs Diversified more accurately as focusing exclusively on Mfs Diversified's fundamentals will not take into account other important factors:
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Mfs Diversified Market Risk Analysis

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Mfs Diversified's investment risk. Standard deviation is the most common way to measure market volatility of mutual funds, such as Mfs Diversified Income, and traders can use it to determine the average amount a Mfs Diversified's price has deviated from the expected return over a period of time. It is calculated by determining the expected price for the established period and then subtracting this figure from each price point. The differences are then squared, summed, and averaged to produce the variance.

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Based on monthly moving average Mfs Diversified is performing at about 1% of its full potential. If added to a well diversified portfolio the total return can be enhanced and market risk can be reduced. You can increase risk-adjusted return of Mfs Diversified by adding it to a well-diversified portfolio.

Mfs Diversified Fundamentals Growth

Mfs Mutual Fund prices reflect investors' perceptions of the future prospects and financial health of Mfs Diversified, and Mfs Diversified fundamentals are critical determinants of its market performance. Overall, investors pay close attention to revenue and earnings growth, profit margins, and debt levels. These fundamentals can have a significant impact on Mfs Mutual Fund performance.

About Mfs Diversified Performance

To evaluate Mfs Diversified Me Mutual Fund as a possible investment, you need to clearly understand its upside potential, downside risk, and overall future performance outlook. You may be satisfied when Mfs Diversified generates a 15% return over the last few months, but what if the market is generating 25% over the same period? In this case, it makes sense to compare Mfs Mutual Fund's performance with different market indexes, such as the Dow or NASDAQ Composite. These indexes can act as benchmarks that will help you to understand Mfs Diversified Me market performance in a much more refined way. The Macroaxis performance score is an integer between 0 and 100 that represents Mfs's market performance from a risk-adjusted return perspective. Generally speaking, the higher the score, the better is overall performance as compared to other investors. The score is normalized against the average investing universe (the best we can interpret from the data available). Within this methodology, scores of individual equity instruments will always be inferior to the scores of portfolios of equities as portfolios typically diversify a lot of unsystematic risks away. The formula to derive the Macroaxis score bases on multiple unequally-weighted factors. For more information, refer to our portfolio performance evaluation section.
Please also refer to our technical analysis and fundamental analysis pages.
The fund normally invests its assets primarily in a broad range of debt instruments and equity securities of U.S. and foreign issuers, including real estate-related investments and emerging market securities. MFS focuses the funds debt investments on investment grade quality corporate bonds, U.S. government securities, below investment grade quality debt instruments of developed market issuers, and debt instruments of emerging market issuers. MFS may invest up to 100 percent of these investments in below investment grade quality debt instruments.

Things to note about Mfs Diversified Me performance evaluation

Checking the ongoing alerts about Mfs Diversified for important developments is a great way to find new opportunities for your next move. Mutual Fund alerts and notifications screener for Mfs Diversified Me help investors to be notified of important events, changes in technical or fundamental conditions, and significant headlines that can affect investment decisions.
The fund retains about 5.11% of its assets under management (AUM) in cash
Evaluating Mfs Diversified's performance can involve analyzing a variety of financial metrics and factors. Some of the key considerations to evaluate Mfs Diversified's mutual fund performance include:
  • Analyzing Mfs Diversified's financial statements, including its income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, helps in understanding its overall financial health and growth potential.
  • Getting a closer look at valuation ratios like price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, price-to-sales (P/S) ratio, and price-to-book (P/B) ratio help in understanding whether Mfs Diversified's stock is overvalued or undervalued compared to its peers.
  • Examining Mfs Diversified's industry or sector and how it is performing can give you an idea of its growth potential and how it is positioned relative to its competitors.
  • Evaluating Mfs Diversified's management team can have a significant impact on its success or failure. Reviewing the track record and experience of Mfs Diversified's management team can help you assess the Mutual Fund's leadership.
  • Pay attention to analyst opinions and ratings of Mfs Diversified's mutual fund. These opinions can provide insight into Mfs Diversified's potential for growth and whether the stock is currently undervalued or overvalued.
It's essential to remember that evaluating Mfs Diversified's mutual fund performance is not an exact science, and many factors can impact Mfs Diversified's mutual fund market price. Therefore, it's also important to diversify your portfolio and not rely solely on one company or stock for your investments.
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Mfs Diversified Income. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in main economic indicators.
Note that the Mfs Diversified Me information on this page should be used as a complementary analysis to other Mfs Diversified's statistical models used to find the right mix of equity instruments to add to your existing portfolios or create a brand new portfolio. You can also try the Global Markets Map module to get a quick overview of global market snapshot using zoomable world map. Drill down to check world indexes.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Mfs Diversified's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Mfs Diversified is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Mfs Diversified'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.