Westwood Smidcap Correlations

WHGMX Fund  USD 17.44  0.03  0.17%   
The current 90-days correlation between Westwood Smidcap and Transamerica Asset Allocation is 0.11 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Westwood Smidcap 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.

Westwood Smidcap Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Westwood Smidcap Fund and DJI is 0.02 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Westwood Smidcap Fund 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 Westwood Smidcap Fund. 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 Westwood Mutual Fund

  0.99VSMAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.99VSCIX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.99VSCPX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.99NAESX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.98FSSNX Fidelity Small CapPairCorr
  0.99DFSTX Us Small CapPairCorr
  0.83PASVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.98PRVIX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.98TRZVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.98PRSVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.97VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.97VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.97VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.96VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.96VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.96VINIX Vanguard InstitutionalPairCorr
  0.97VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.75BAC Bank of America Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.73WMT Walmart Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.62HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.72DIS Walt Disney Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.75AA Alcoa Corp Fiscal Year End 15th of January 2025 PairCorr
  0.63CAT Caterpillar Fiscal Year End 3rd of February 2025 PairCorr
  0.74CSCO Cisco Systems Sell-off TrendPairCorr

Moving against Westwood Mutual Fund

  0.67JNJ Johnson Johnson Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.63PFE Pfizer Inc Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.62MRK Merck Company Fiscal Year End 6th of February 2025 PairCorr
  0.37BA Boeing Fiscal Year End 29th of January 2025 PairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Westwood Mutual Fund performing well and Westwood Smidcap 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 Westwood Smidcap'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.