Mainstay Balanced Fund Market Value

MBAIX Fund  USD 33.03  0.05  0.15%   
Mainstay Balanced's market value is the price at which a share of Mainstay Balanced trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Mainstay Balanced Fund investors about its performance. Mainstay Balanced is trading at 33.03 as of the 1st of December 2024; that is 0.15 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 32.98.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Mainstay Balanced Fund and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Mainstay Balanced over a given investment horizon. Check out Mainstay Balanced Correlation, Mainstay Balanced Volatility and Mainstay Balanced Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Mainstay Balanced.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Mainstay Balanced's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Mainstay Balanced is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Mainstay Balanced'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.

Mainstay Balanced 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Mainstay Balanced's mutual fund what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Mainstay Balanced.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Mainstay Balanced on June 4, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Mainstay Balanced Fund or generate 0.0% return on investment in Mainstay Balanced over 180 days. The fund invests approximately 60 percent of its assets in stocks and 40 percent of its assets in fixed-income securitie... More

Mainstay Balanced Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Mainstay Balanced's mutual fund current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess Mainstay Balanced Fund upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Mainstay Balanced Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Mainstay Balanced's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Mainstay Balanced's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Mainstay Balanced historical prices to predict the future Mainstay Balanced's volatility.
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LowEstimatedHigh
32.6133.0333.45
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
32.4132.8333.25
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Naive
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LowNextHigh
32.7433.1633.58
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LowerMiddle BandUpper
32.2432.7533.27
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Mainstay Balanced Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Mainstay Mutual Fund to be very steady. Mainstay Balanced has Sharpe Ratio of 0.15, which conveys that the entity had a 0.15% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-eight technical indicators for Mainstay Balanced, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please verify Mainstay Balanced's Mean Deviation of 0.3204, risk adjusted performance of 0.0996, and Downside Deviation of 0.3768 to check out if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0616%. The fund secures a Beta (Market Risk) of 0.5, which conveys possible diversification benefits within a given portfolio. As returns on the market increase, Mainstay Balanced's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Mainstay Balanced is expected to be smaller as well.

Auto-correlation

    
  0.77  

Good predictability

Mainstay Balanced Fund has good predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Mainstay Balanced time series from 4th of June 2024 to 2nd of September 2024 and 2nd of September 2024 to 1st of December 2024. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Mainstay Balanced price movement. The serial correlation of 0.77 indicates that around 77.0% of current Mainstay Balanced price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.77
Spearman Rank Test0.64
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.13

Mainstay Balanced lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Mainstay Balanced mutual fund's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Mainstay Balanced's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Mainstay Balanced returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Mainstay Balanced has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the mutual fund is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Mainstay Balanced regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Mainstay Balanced mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Mainstay Balanced mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Mainstay Balanced mutual fund over time.
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Mainstay Balanced Lagged Returns

When evaluating Mainstay Balanced's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Mainstay Balanced mutual fund have on its future price. Mainstay Balanced autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Mainstay Balanced autocorrelation shows the relationship between Mainstay Balanced mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Mainstay Balanced Fund.
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