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15 important things you should know about AMG Funds BLUEX mutual fund
Updated: April 07, 2021
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Bull Case
- 3-year return above the benchmark
- 5-year return above the benchmark
- 10-year return above the benchmark
- 15-year return above the benchmark
- No sales load or distribution fees
Bear Case
- Low net assets
- High expense ratio
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Are you looking to buy or sell BLUEX? Or perhaps you’re looking for BLUEX fact sheet, and learn about its alternatives? If so, you came to the right place.
In this BLUEX mutual fund review, we’ll address key questions our readers have been asking us about this fund, above and beyond what you can find in its prospectus, and on Morningstar or Yahoo Finance.
Here is what you’ll be able to find in this review:
- Fact Sheet: BLUEX performance, returns, expense ratio, holdings and dividend yield;
- Analysis: BLUEX buy or sell; the pros and cons of investing in BLUEX mutual fund;
- Alternatives: other ETFs and mutual funds you should consider as alternatives to BLUEX.
And here is the list of questions we’ll answer:
- Describe AMG Funds I: AMG Managers Brandywine Blue Fund; Class I Shares (BLUEX).
- What are BLUEX holdings?
- What is BLUEX performance? What are BLUEX historical returns?
- How many up and down years did BLUEX have historically?
- What is BLUEX dividend yield?
- What is BLUEX minimum initial investment amount?
- What is BLUEX expense ratio?
- Does BLUEX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?
- What is BLUEX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?
- What is BLUEX beta? How would you assess BLUEX risk?
- What is BLUEX Sharpe ratio?
- What is BLUEX Finny Score? BLUEX buy or sell?
- What are the pros of investing in BLUEX? What are BLUEX buy reasons?
- What are the cons of investing in BLUEX? What are BLUEX sell reasons?
So let’s start. Scroll down to the question that interests you the most.
Fact Sheet
1. Describe AMG Funds I: AMG Managers Brandywine Blue Fund; Class I Shares (BLUEX).
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in common stocks. The Fund maintains a large-cap focus by uncovering stocks beyond $6 billion in market cap that meet its earnings-growth and valuation criteria.
2. What are BLUEX top holdings?
BLUEX has 44 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.
The top 10 holdings represent 35.51% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:
| Name | Symbol | % Assets |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon.com Inc | AMZN | 5.27% |
| Snap Inc Class A | SNAP | 4.88% |
| Salesforce.com Inc | CRM | 3.39% |
| Twilio Inc A | TWLO | 3.32% |
| Universal Display Corp | OLED | 3.20% |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | TMO | 3.19% |
| United Parcel Service Inc Class B | UPS | 3.13% |
| Apple Inc | AAPL | 3.08% |
| Lululemon Athletica Inc | LULU | 3.05% |
| Facebook Inc A | FB | 3.00% |
3. What is BLUEX performance? What are BLUEX historical returns?
BLUEX has generated the following returns:
- 1-month return is -6.20%;
- 3-month return is 0.98%;
- 1-year return is 0.98%;
- 3-year return is 19.02%;
- 5-year return is 18.92%;
- 10-year return is 11.99%;
- 15-year return is 7.67%.
4. How many up and down years did BLUEX have historically?
In the last 10 years, BLUEX had 7 up years and 3 down years.
5. What is BLUEX dividend yield?
BLUEX yield is 0%.
6. What is BLUEX minimum initial investment amount?
BLUEX minimum initial investment amount is $100.00K.
7. What is BLUEX expense ratio?
BLUEX expense ratio is 1.17%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.
8. Does BLUEX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?
BLUEX 12b-1 distribution fee is 0. BLUEX front-end sales load is 0. BLUEX back-end sales load is 0.
9. What is BLUEX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?
- 1-year ax cost ratio is 14.79%;
- 3-year ax cost ratio is 7.05%.
11. What is BLUEX Sharpe ratio?
- 3-year Sharpe ratio is 0.92;
- 5-year Sharpe ratio is 1.11;
- 10-year Sharpe ratio is 0.78;
- 15-year Sharpe ratio is 0.46.
Analysis
12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?
Finny Score is 71. Our quantitative analysis shows 5 reasons to buy and 2 reasons to sell it, resulting in the Finny Score of 71.
13. What are the pros of investing in BLUEX? What are BLUEX buy reasons?
The following are BLUEX strengths from our perspective:
- BLUEX 3-year return is 19.02%, which is higher than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury US TIPS TR USD), 5.74%.
- BLUEX 5-year return is 18.92%, which is higher than the 5-year return of the benchmark index (Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury US TIPS TR USD), 3.92%.
- BLUEX 10-year return is 11.99%, which is higher than the 10-year return of the benchmark index (Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury US TIPS TR USD), 3.42%.
- BLUEX 15-year return is 7.67%, which is higher than the 15-year return of the benchmark index (Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury US TIPS TR USD), 4.38%.
- Good news: this fund does not have 12b1, front-end or back-end sales fees.
14. What are the cons of investing in BLUEX? What are BLUEX negatives?
The following are BLUEX weaknesses from our perspective:
- BLUEX net assets are $176.50 million. This fund is not a popular choice with retail investors.
- BLUEX expense ratio is 1.17%, which is not negligible. Is the fund expensive to you, and does it align to your investment strategy?
