American Funds Balanced Fund Earnings Per Share

BLPCX Fund  USD 17.58  0.07  0.40%   
American Funds Balanced 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 Balanced Mutual Fund Earnings Per Share Analysis

American Funds' Earnings per Share (EPS) denotes the portion of a company's earnings that is allocated to each share of common stock. To calculate Earnings per Share investors will need to take a company's net income, subtract any dividends for preferred stock, and divide it by the number of average outstanding shares. EPS is usually presented in two different ways: basic and diluted. Fully diluted Earnings per Share takes into account effects of warrants, options, and convertible securities and is generally viewed by analysts as a more accurate measure.

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Earnings per Share is one of the most critical measures of the firm's current share price and is used by investors to determine the overall company profitability, especially when compared to the EPS of similar companies.
Competition

According to the company disclosure, American Funds Balanced has an Earnings Per Share of 0.0 times. This indicator is about the same for the American Funds average (which is currently at 0.0) family and about the same as Allocation--50% to 70% Equity (which currently averages 0.0) category. This indicator is about the same for all United States funds average (which is currently at 0.0).

American Earnings Per Share 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 Earnings Per Share 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 earnings per share among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for American Funds

The fund invests 62.8% of asset under management in tradable equity instruments, with the rest of investments concentrated in bonds (5.01%) , cash (5.49%) 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 Balanced'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 Balanced 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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Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Funds Balanced. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in main economic indicators.
Note that the American Funds Balanced information on this page should be used as a complementary analysis to other American Funds' statistical models used to find the right mix of equity instruments to add to your existing portfolios or create a brand new portfolio. You can also try the Analyst Advice module to analyst recommendations and target price estimates broken down by several categories.
Please note, there is a significant difference between American Funds' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if American Funds is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, American Funds' 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.