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Firsthand Alternative Energy Fund ALTEX |
 Prospectus |  Mutual FundReport Card |
Daily Total Returns as of 05/02/2025
Actual Returns | Average Annual Returns | |||||||||
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| Description | YTD05/02/2025 | 1 Day | 1 Month | 3 Month | 1 Year | 3 Year | 5 Year | 10 Year | 15 Year | |
| ALTEX1Fund Performance (without load) | -16.28% | +0.76% | +0.25% | -17.58% | -11.27% | -8.06% | +4.44% | +2.12% | +0.54% | |
| S&P 500 TR USD2Benchmark | -4.32% | +0.63% | -0.43% | -6.91% | +13.19% | +12.41% | +16.41% | +12.27% | +13.03% | |
| Technology3Morningstar Category | -7.42% | +0.91% | +2.07% | -10.92% | +10.83% | +10.66% | +14.07% | +14.57% | +14.32% | |
| Rank in Category | 94 | 56 | 80 | 92 | 99 | 98 | 95 | 99 | 100 | |
1 ALTEX return as of 05/02/2025 2 S&P 500 TR USD return as of 05/02/2025 3 Category: Technology return as of 05/02/2025 | ||||||||||
Monthly Pre-Tax Returns (%) as of 03/31/2025
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- ALTEX1Fund
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- Technology1Morningstar Category (with load)
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- S&P 500 TR USD2Broad-Based Index
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- ALTEX Pre-Liquidation3Fund
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- ALTEX Post-LiquidationFund
1 Numbers are adjusted for possible sales charges, and assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gains over each time period. 2 Index figures do not reflect deductions for fees or expenses. 3 Pre-liquidation figures include taxes on fund's distributions of dividends and capital gains. |
Actual Returns | Average Annual Returns | ||||||
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| Description | 3 Month | 1 Year | 3 Year | 5 Year | 10 Year | Inception10/2007 | |
| ALTEX1 | -17.44% | -16.44% | -14.43% | +6.60% | +2.01% | -1.08% | |
| Technology2Morningstar Category (without load) | -9.92% | +0.86% | +4.22% | +15.82% | +14.49% | -- | |
| Technology1Morningstar Category (with load) | -10.13% | +0.63% | +4.13% | +15.75% | +14.43% | -- | |
| S&P 500 TR USD3Broad-Based Index | -4.27% | +8.25% | +9.06% | +18.59% | +12.50% | -- | |
1 Numbers are adjusted for possible sales charges, and assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gains over each time period. 2 Numbers assume reinvetsment of dividends and capital gains over each time period and are not adjusted for possible sales charges. 3 Index figures do not reflect deductions for fees or expenses. | |||||||
Actual Returns | Average Annual Returns | ||||||
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| Description | 3 Month | 1 Year | 3 Year | 5 Year | 10 Year | Inception10/2007 | |
Pre-Tax Returns | |||||||
| ALTEXFund Performance (with load) | -17.44% | -16.44% | -14.43% | +6.60% | +2.01% | -1.08% | |
After-Tax Returns1 | |||||||
| SEC Pre-Liquidation2(Before sale of shares) | -17.44% | -16.72% | -14.76% | +6.36% | +1.88% | -1.16% | |
| SEC Post-Liquidation(After sale of shares) | -10.32% | -9.43% | -10.49% | +5.23% | +1.58% | -0.80% | |
| Tax Cost Ratio3 | -- | 0.33% | 0.38% | 0.23% | 0.13% | -- | |
1 Figures based on highest Federal income tax bracket. State taxes are not included. Returns are without load. 2 Pre-liquidation figures include taxes on fund's distributions of dividends and capital gains. 3 Tax Cost Ratio represents the percentage-point reduction in returns that results from Federal income taxes (before shares in the fund are sold, and assuming the highest Federal tax bracket). | |||||||
Yearly Performance | |||||||||||
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| Rank | 2025 YTD | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
| Top 25% | -18.26 | 83.88 | |||||||||
40.59 | |||||||||||
| Bottom 25% | -17.44 | -6.80 | -2.31 | -5.09 | -18.57 | 27.35 | -9.26 | ||||
1Compares this fund's total annual return with that of other funds in the same category.
2Figures are not adjusted for load, sales charge or taxes. See the 'Monthly Pre-Tax Returns' table above for load-adjusted performance.
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