The Long Term Fund Fundamentals

BSGLX Fund  USD 28.15  0.80  2.93%   
The Long Term fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Long Term's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Long Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Long Term's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Long Term mutual fund.
  
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The Long Term Mutual Fund Five Year Return Analysis

Long Term's Five Year Return is considered one of the best measures to evaluate fund performance, especially from the mid and long term perspective. It shows the total annualized return generated from holding equity for the last five years and represents capital appreciation of the investment, including all dividends, losses, and capital gains distributions.

Five Year Return

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(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

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100%

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Current Long Term Five Year Return

    
  11.54 %  
Most of Long Term's fundamental indicators, such as Five Year Return, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, The Long Term is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Although Five Year Returns can give a sense of overall investment potential, it is recommended to compare equity performance with similar assets for the same five year time interval. Similarly, comparing overall investment performance over the last five years with the appropriate market index is a great way to determine how this equity instrument will perform during unforeseen market fluctuations.
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According to the company disclosure, The Long Term has a Five Year Return of 11.5361%. This is much higher than that of the Baillie Gifford Funds family and significantly higher than that of the World Large-Stock Growth category. The five year return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Long Term Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Long Term's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Long Term value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Long Term competition to find correlations between indicators driving Long Term's intrinsic value. More Info.
The Long Term is the top fund in year to date return among similar funds. It is the top fund in one year return among similar funds reporting about  11.65  of One Year Return per Year To Date Return. Comparative valuation analysis is a catch-all model that can be used if you cannot value Long Term by discounting back its dividends or cash flows. This model doesn't attempt to find an intrinsic value for Long Term's Mutual Fund. Still, instead, it compares the stock's price multiples to a benchmark or nearest competition to determine if the stock is relatively undervalued or overvalued. The reason why the comparable model can be used in almost all circumstances is due to the vast number of multiples that can be utilized, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), price-to-cash flow (P/CF), and many others. The P/E ratio is the most commonly used of these ratios because it focuses on the Long Term's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Long Five Year Return Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Long Term's direct or indirect competition against its Five Year Return to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the mutual funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Long Term could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Long Term by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Long Term is currently under evaluation in five year return among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Long Term

The fund consists of 98.13% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments.
Asset allocation divides Long Term's investment portfolio among different asset categories to balance risk and reward by investing in a diversified mix of instruments that align with the investor's goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Mutual funds, which pool money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of securities, use asset allocation strategies to manage the risk and return of their portfolios.
Mutual funds allocate their assets by investing in a diversified portfolio of securities, such as stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and cash. The specific mix of these securities is determined by the fund's investment objective and strategy. For example, a stock mutual fund may invest primarily in equities, while a bond mutual fund may invest mainly in fixed-income securities. The fund's manager, responsible for making investment decisions, will buy and sell securities in the fund's portfolio as market conditions and the fund's objectives change.

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About Long Term Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze The Long Term's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Long Term using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of The Long Term based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this mutual fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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The fund invests at least 80 percent of its net assets in equity securities. While the portfolio managers are not constrained by geographic limitations, it ordinarily invests in securities of issuers located in at least six different countries. In addition, under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 40 percent of its total assets in securities of companies located outside the U.S. when market conditions are favorable, but, when market conditions are not favorable, will invest at least 30 percent of its total assets in companies located outside the U.S. It is non-diversified.

Pair Trading with Long Term

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Long Term position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Long Term will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Long Mutual Fund

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Long Term could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Long Term when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Long Term - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling The Long Term to buy it.
The correlation of Long Term 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 perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Long Term moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Long Term moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Long Term can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Long Term's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Long Term is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Long Term'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.