Morningstar Defensive Bond Fund Market Value

MSTBX Fund  USD 9.81  0.01  0.10%   
Morningstar Defensive's market value is the price at which a share of Morningstar Defensive trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Morningstar Defensive Bond investors about its performance. Morningstar Defensive is trading at 9.81 as of the 22nd of July 2025; that is 0.10 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 9.8.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Morningstar Defensive Bond and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Morningstar Defensive over a given investment horizon. Check out Morningstar Defensive Correlation, Morningstar Defensive Volatility and Morningstar Defensive Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Morningstar Defensive.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Morningstar Defensive's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Morningstar Defensive is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Morningstar Defensive'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.

Morningstar Defensive '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 Morningstar Defensive'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 Morningstar Defensive.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Morningstar Defensive on April 23, 2025 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Morningstar Defensive Bond or generate 0.0% return on investment in Morningstar Defensive over 90 days. Morningstar Defensive is related to or competes with Morningstar International, Morningstar Global, Morningstar Municipal, Morningstar Multisector, Morningstar Unconstrained, Morningstar Total, and Morningstar Equity. The fund will normally invest at least 80 percent of its assets in a diversified portfolio of debt securities of varying... More

Morningstar Defensive 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 Morningstar Defensive'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 Morningstar Defensive Bond upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Morningstar Defensive Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Morningstar Defensive's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Morningstar Defensive's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Morningstar Defensive historical prices to predict the future Morningstar Defensive's volatility.
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Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as Morningstar Defensive. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against Morningstar Defensive's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, Morningstar Defensive'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 Morningstar Defensive.

Morningstar Defensive Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Morningstar Mutual Fund to be very steady. Morningstar Defensive has Sharpe Ratio of 0.19, which conveys that the entity had a 0.19 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-six technical indicators for Morningstar Defensive, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please verify Morningstar Defensive's Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.1242, coefficient of variation of 489.52, and Mean Deviation of 0.1027 to check out if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0236%. The fund secures a Beta (Market Risk) of 0.0084, which conveys not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Morningstar Defensive's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Morningstar Defensive is expected to be smaller as well.

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Insignificant reverse predictability

Morningstar Defensive Bond has insignificant reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Morningstar Defensive time series from 23rd of April 2025 to 7th of June 2025 and 7th of June 2025 to 22nd 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 Morningstar Defensive price movement. The serial correlation of -0.12 indicates that less than 12.0% of current Morningstar Defensive price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.12
Spearman Rank Test0.14
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Morningstar Defensive lagged returns against current returns

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

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