First Trust Intermediate Fund Beta
| FPF Fund | USD 18.84 0.04 0.21% |
First Trust Intermediate fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to First Trust's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of First Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure First Trust'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 First Trust fund.
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First Trust Intermediate Fund Beta Analysis
First Trust's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.
Current First Trust Beta | 0.38 |
Most of First Trust's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, 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, First Trust Intermediate is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, First Trust Intermediate has a Beta of 0.38. This is much higher than that of the Financial Services family and significantly higher than that of the Asset Management category. The beta for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.
First Beta Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses First Trust's direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of First Trust could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing First Trust by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.First Trust is currently under evaluation in beta among similar funds.
As returns on the market increase, First Trust's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding First Trust is expected to be smaller as well.
First Fundamentals
| Shares Outstanding | 60.77 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 29.05 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 34.31 K | ||||
| Price To Earning | 4.48 X | ||||
| Short Ratio | 0.16 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 3.83 X | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 11 | ||||
| Beta | 0.38 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 1.27 B | ||||
| Annual Yield | 0.01 % | ||||
| Year To Date Return | 13.63 % | ||||
| One Year Return | 21.60 % | ||||
| Three Year Return | 0.20 % | ||||
| Five Year Return | 3.07 % | ||||
| Last Dividend Paid | 1.35 |
About First Trust Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze First Trust Intermediate's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of First Trust using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of First Trust Intermediate based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this 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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