American Funds Retirement Fund Fundamentals

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American Funds Retirement fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to American Funds' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of American Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure American Funds' 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 American Funds mutual fund.
  
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American Funds Retirement Mutual Fund One Year Return Analysis

American Funds' One Year Return is the annualized return generated from holding a security for exactly 12 months. The measure is considered to be good short-term measures of fund performance. In other words, it represents the capital appreciation of fund investments over the last year. However when the market is volatile such as in recent years, One Year Return measure can be misleading.

One Year Return

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(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

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100%

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Current American Funds One Year Return

    
  16.26 %  
Most of American Funds' fundamental indicators, such as One 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, American Funds Retirement is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Although One Year Fund Return indicator can give a sense of overall fund short-term potential, it is recommended to look at mid and long term return measure before selecting a particular fund or ETF. The great way to validate fund short-term performance is to compare it with other similar funds or ETFs for the same 12 months interval.
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American Funds One Year Return Component Assessment

Based on the recorded statements, American Funds Retirement has an One Year Return of 16.2582%. This is much higher than that of the American Funds family and 254.21% higher than that of the Family category. The one year return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

American Funds Retirement Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining American Funds's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare American Funds value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across American Funds competition to find correlations between indicators driving American Funds's intrinsic value. More Info.
American Funds Retirement is one of the top funds in annual yield among similar funds. It also is one of the top funds in year to date return among similar funds creating about  470.05  of Year To Date Return per Annual Yield. 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 American Funds' earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

American One Year Return Peer Comparison

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

Fund Asset Allocation for American Funds

The fund invests 60.08% of asset under management in tradable equity instruments, with the rest of investments concentrated in bonds (4.51%) , cash (5.78%) and various exotic instruments.
Asset allocation divides American Funds' 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 American Funds Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze American Funds Retirement's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of American Funds using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of American Funds Retirement 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 advisor will attempt to achieve its investment objectives by investing in a mix of American Funds in varying combinations and weightings over time. The underlying funds will primarily consist of equity funds in the equity-income, balanced and growth-and-income fund categories. The fund is one of a suite of three American Funds Retirement Income Portfolios designed to help investors in or near retirement with a withdrawal program. It seeks somewhat higher income and long-term growth of capital.

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Other Information on Investing in American Mutual Fund

American Funds financial ratios help investors to determine whether American 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 American with respect to the benefits of owning American Funds security.
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