Mutual Fund Insights: Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX)

In-depth Analysis of Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX)

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Fund Manager - John Sheehy

 What we like about Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX)

Data for Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) as of January 31, 2010

• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) is a new fund and has been performing well against its peers for both one-month and three_month performance
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return -5.60% vs -7.57% Industrials category average)
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) has good Long-term performance (5-year return 4.44% vs 1.03% Industrials category average)
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) ratio of up-years vs down years is greater than 2
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) has a Morningstar rating of 4 and above
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) has an annual stock turnover rate of 58.00% vs Industrials average of 326.01%. It is good that Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace management does not trade extensively for its return.
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) is less volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 26.29, lower than category average of 28.65
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) has a lower management fee than its Industrials average: 0.88% vs 1.43%
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) is a true no-load fund as it has no load and no 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses

 What we are cautious about Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX)

Data for Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) as of January 31, 2010

• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) management has been with Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund for only 1.0 years, it is hard to judge manager's ability based on this fund's operation record
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund is a focused fund with 67.09% of the portfolio on top 10 securities. This tends to produce more volatility compared to a diversified fund. See fund top 10 holdings.
• Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund (FSDAX) has a less-than-ideal short-term performance (1-year return 25.82% vs 40.23% Industrials category average)

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