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Mutual Fund Insights: Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX)

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See Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

    Last Trade: $43.05 on 3/18/2010, Change: +0.15 (0.35%)
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Fund Manager - Bill Miller

Fund Manager Tenure: 27.9 years   [Similar Funds: LMVFX  LMVTX ]
Fundmojo Fund Grade: E (Score: 0.36)     (What does this score mean?)
Bill Miller is the CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management. He has been employed by Legg Mason since 1982. In addition, he is on the Board of Trustees at the Santa Fe Institute, a leading center for multi-disciplinary research in complex systems theory. After graduating with an economics degree from Washington & Lee University in 1972, Bill served as a military intelligence officer overseas and then pursued graduate studies in the Ph.D. program in philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University.  Get more insights on Bill Miller

  

What we like about Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) What we like about Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX)

Data for Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) as of January 31, 2010

  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) management has been with Legg Mason Value R Fund for 27.9 years
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) has good short-term performance (1-year return 49.30% vs 34.15% Large Blend category average)
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) has an annual stock turnover rate of 3.90% vs Large Blend average of 80.36%. It is good that Legg Mason Value R management does not trade extensively for its return.

  

What we are cautious about Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) What we are cautious about Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX)

Data for Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) as of January 31, 2010

  • Legg Mason Value R Fund is a focused fund with 41.92% of the portfolio on top 10 securities. This tends to produce more volatility compared to a diversified fund. See fund top 10 holdings.
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) has a less-than-ideal mid-term performance (3-year return -16.86% vs -7.17% Large Blend category average)
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) has a less-than-ideal Long-term performance (5-year return -7.69% vs 0.19% Large Blend category average)
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) ratio of up-years vs down years can be improved
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) has a Morningstar rating of 3 and below
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) is less safe compared to its Large Blend peers
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) does not have a good risk adjusted return as its 3-year Alpha of -6.5 is worse than category average of 0.23, and its 3-year Sharpe ratio is -0.59
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) is more volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 27.7 that is higher than category average of 20.52
  • Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) has a higher management fee of 1.36% than its Large Blend average of 1.10%
  • Even though Legg Mason Value R Fund carries no load, it does have a 0.50% of 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses
See Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

  

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Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) Net Asset

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DateNet Asset
01/2010$33.81M
11/2009$34.33M
10/2009$34.80M
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Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX) Portfolio Allocation

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DateCashStockBondOther
09/20092.24%97.76%0%0%
06/20092.18%97.82%0%0%
03/20092.53%97.47%0%0%
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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in Legg Mason Value R Fund (LMVRX)

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30-Sep-09
AES CORPORATION [9.75%]
AETNA INC. NEW [3.98%]
eBay Inc. [3.97%]
A F L A C INC [3.78%]
HEWLETT PACKARD CO [3.48%]
Cisco Systems, Inc. [3.47%]
STATE STREET CP [3.41%]
CA Inc. [3.4%]
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP [3.38%]
Sears Holdings Corporation [3.3%]

30-Jun-09
AES CORPORATION [9.85%]
AETNA INC. NEW [4.26%]
Sears Holdings Corporation [4.26%]
eBay Inc. [4.21%]
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP [4.07%]
STATE STREET CP [3.68%]
Yahoo! Inc. [3.55%]
HEWLETT PACKARD CO [3.49%]
Cisco Systems, Inc. [3.31%]
A F L A C INC [3.25%]

31-Mar-09
AES Corp. [6.31%]
Aetna Inc. (New) [5.83%]
UnitedHealth Group Inc [5.13%]
eBay Inc. [4.29%]
Yahoo! Inc. [4.18%]
CA Inc. [4.15%]
Sears Holdings Corporation [4.03%]
Amazon.com, Inc. [4%]
Cisco Systems, Inc. [3.94%]
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES [3.93%]
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