Morgan Stanley China Fund Market Value

CAF Fund  USD 14.40  0.09  0.62%   
Morgan Stanley's market value is the price at which a share of Morgan Stanley trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Morgan Stanley China investors about its performance. Morgan Stanley is trading at 14.40 as of the 23rd of July 2025. This is a 0.62 percent decrease since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's lowest day price was 14.35.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Morgan Stanley China and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Morgan Stanley over a given investment horizon. Check out Morgan Stanley Correlation, Morgan Stanley Volatility and Morgan Stanley Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Morgan Stanley.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Morgan Stanley's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Morgan Stanley is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Morgan Stanley'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.

Morgan Stanley '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 Morgan Stanley's 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 Morgan Stanley.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Morgan Stanley on April 24, 2025 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Morgan Stanley China or generate 0.0% return on investment in Morgan Stanley over 90 days. Morgan Stanley is related to or competes with China Fund, Ashmore Group, Mexico Equity, Western Asset, Blackrock Muniholdings, Morgan Stanley, and Templeton Dragon. Morgan Stanley China A Share Fund, Inc. is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Morgan Stanley Inve... More

Morgan Stanley 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 Morgan Stanley's 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 Morgan Stanley China upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Morgan Stanley Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Morgan Stanley's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Morgan Stanley's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Morgan Stanley historical prices to predict the future Morgan Stanley's volatility.
Hype
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LowEstimatedHigh
13.4914.4015.31
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LowRealHigh
12.9615.4516.36
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LowNextHigh
13.5914.5015.41
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LowerMiddle BandUpper
13.3613.9314.50
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Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as Morgan Stanley. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against Morgan Stanley's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, Morgan Stanley's competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in Morgan Stanley China.

Morgan Stanley China Backtested Returns

Morgan Stanley appears to be very steady, given 3 months investment horizon. Morgan Stanley China has Sharpe Ratio of 0.22, which conveys that the entity had a 0.22 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-nine technical indicators for Morgan Stanley, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please exercise Morgan Stanley's Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.1927, downside deviation of 0.8231, and Mean Deviation of 0.7001 to check out if our risk estimates are consistent with your expectations. The fund secures a Beta (Market Risk) of 0.0569, which conveys not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Morgan Stanley's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Morgan Stanley is expected to be smaller as well.

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Good predictability

Morgan Stanley China has good predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Morgan Stanley time series from 24th of April 2025 to 8th of June 2025 and 8th of June 2025 to 23rd of July 2025. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Morgan Stanley China price movement. The serial correlation of 0.78 indicates that around 78.0% of current Morgan Stanley price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.78
Spearman Rank Test0.79
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.09

Morgan Stanley China lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Morgan Stanley 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 Morgan Stanley's fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Morgan Stanley returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Morgan Stanley has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the 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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Morgan Stanley 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 Morgan Stanley fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Morgan Stanley fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Morgan Stanley fund over time.
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Morgan Stanley Lagged Returns

When evaluating Morgan Stanley's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Morgan Stanley fund have on its future price. Morgan Stanley 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, Morgan Stanley autocorrelation shows the relationship between Morgan Stanley fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Morgan Stanley China.
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