Fidelity Balanced Fund (FBALX)

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26.79

-0.05

(-0.19%)

At close: 06:06PM EDT

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D
$60,000. Thats how much I would be down now. So much for holding through the crash. Good luck!
K
How can they say this has had a 7% increase this year?
v
Share price is reduced to cover dividend payouts. Not unusual.
J
FBALX is a fine balanced fund that has performed very well in a bull market vs other balanced funds, however, it doesn't perform so well in down markets as other balanced funds like VBIAX.
Look at the 10 year Beta of 1.18 for FBALX vs 0.99 for VBIAX. FBALX is much riskier than VBIAX, that's why FBALX has returned 186% vs 151% for VBIAX over 10 years.
Bullish
D
Per Morningstar, it is getting 5 stars and has a high return with low expenses
M
Is it even worth holding onto this fund? Feel i am not making money with this fund
P
dividend today of $1.751. Was up $0.22 before dividend
m
$2.49 loss in a single day? That seems crazy. Ive done back several years and never has it dropped that much in 1 day. It is a balanced fund and the largest holdings are FAANG stocks - all of which had a moderate day. Is this a NAV calculation error?
M
For a balanced fund, FBALX has certainly not done well during this market downturn. Seems the fund had a more than moderate market position
T
15% of it's top holdings are in tech stocks. No wonder it's getting hammered since January 2022.
H
Hello Port! Where did you get the figure $1.751 dividend? If you were correct that the fund went up $0.22 per share then should the dividend be $1.12? I simply added the reported loss per share of $0.90 to the $0.22 gain. Does this make sense to you?
H
Great stable fund
P
This drop today, is it because of Capital Gains?
M
Massive Cap-Gain for tax season.
a
Anyone know why the big drop today?
J
When stock markets dropped in 2001, FBALX maintained its value quite well.

But when stock markets dropped in 2008, FBALX also suffered.

Why?
E
Do you like this fund better than VWELX or Fidelity Puritan fund?
M
Should I invest on this fund?
D
how can this have a 0% change with the markets all being up? yesterday a minimal loss and today no change? there was another day recently with 0% change. what are the chances??
D
when in the dividend?