Hennessy Gas Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Hennessy Gas Utility and Wilmington Diversified Income is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Hennessy Gas is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

Hennessy Gas Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Hennessy Gas Utility and DJI is 0.66 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Hennessy Gas Utility and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.68FE FirstEnergyPairCorr
  0.75NI NiSourcePairCorr
  0.71ATO Atmos EnergyPairCorr
  0.66AWR American States WaterPairCorr

Moving against Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.57CMS-PB Consumers EnergyPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Hennessy Mutual Fund performing well and Hennessy Gas Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Hennessy Gas' multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.