Alger Smallcap Growth Fund Fundamentals

ASCZX Fund  USD 11.95  0.07  0.59%   
Alger Smallcap Growth fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Alger Smallcap's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Alger Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Alger Smallcap'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 Alger Smallcap mutual fund.
  
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Alger Smallcap Growth Mutual Fund Year To Date Return Analysis

Alger Smallcap's Year to Date Return (YTD) is the total return generated from holding a security from the beginning of the current fiscal year. In other words, YTD Return represents the capital appreciation of your investments from the start of the current fiscal year.

YTD Return

 = 

(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

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100%

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Current Alger Smallcap Year To Date Return

    
  18.53 %  
Most of Alger Smallcap's fundamental indicators, such as Year To Date 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, Alger Smallcap Growth is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Year-To-Date typically refers to a period starting from the beginning of the current year and continuing up to the present day. Investors should becareful when comparing YTD ratios if not much of the year has occurred as research shows that YTD measures are more sensitive to early periods than late.
Competition

In accordance with the company's disclosures, Alger Smallcap Growth has a Year To Date Return of 18.5332%. This is much higher than that of the Alger family and significantly higher than that of the Small Growth category. The year to date return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Alger Smallcap Growth Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Alger Smallcap's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Alger Smallcap value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Alger Smallcap competition to find correlations between indicators driving Alger Smallcap's intrinsic value. More Info.
Alger Smallcap Growth is the top fund in price to earning among similar funds. It also is the top fund in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.08  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Alger Smallcap Growth is roughly  12.57 . 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 Alger Smallcap's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Alger Year To Date Return Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Alger Smallcap's direct or indirect competition against its Year To Date 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 Alger Smallcap could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Alger Smallcap by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Alger Smallcap is currently under evaluation in year to date return among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Alger Smallcap

The fund consists of 94.64% investments in stocks, with the rest of investments allocated between different money market instruments and various exotic instruments.
Asset allocation divides Alger Smallcap'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 Alger Smallcap Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Alger Smallcap Growth's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Alger Smallcap using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Alger Smallcap Growth 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 normally invests at least 80 percent of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of companies that, at the time of purchase of the securities, have a total market capitalization range of the Russell 2000 Growth Index. The Russell 2000 Growth Index is a broad-based index of small capitalization stocks. It may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of companies conducting business within a single sector, as defined by third party sources, including the information technology, health care and consumer discretionary sectors.

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Other Information on Investing in Alger Mutual Fund

Alger Smallcap financial ratios help investors to determine whether Alger Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Alger with respect to the benefits of owning Alger Smallcap security.
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