{"id":4184,"date":"2023-03-16T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/net-asset-value-nav\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:45:09","slug":"net-asset-value-nav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/net-asset-value-nav\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Asset Value (NAV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNet Asset Value for a mutual fund is the market value per share of the stocks included in the fund. <\/p>\n<p>NAV or Net Asset Value tells investors what is the per unit price of a mutual fund scheme. Investors can therefore buy\/sell mutual funds units as per the NAV. NAV is calculated on a daily basis as per the closing price of all the securities included in the mutual fund scheme. Thus, it can change everyday.<\/p>\n<h2>How is mutual fund NAV calculated?<\/h2>\n<p>NAV per unit = Market value of securities in the fund\/number of units issued<\/p>\n<p>For example- <\/p>\n<p>Suppose the market value of the securities included in a mutual fund scheme is Rs. 500 lakhs. If the fund house issues 10 lakh mutual fund units, the per unit NAV will be Rs. 50.<\/p>\n<h2>How is NAV important for investors?<\/h2>\n<p>Investors must consider NAV while investing in a mutual fund but this should not be the only deciding factor. For example, it may not be sensible to select a mutual fund scheme only because it has a lower Net Asset Value. NAV is in no way an indication of the mutual fund&#8217;s future performane. It is only a price at which an investor can buy or redeem units of the mutual fund scheme.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net Asset Value for a mutual fund is the market value per share of the stocks included in the fund. NAV or Net Asset Value tells investors what is the per unit price of a mutual fund scheme. Investors can therefore buy\/sell mutual funds units as per the NAV. NAV is calculated on a daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mutual-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}