BCV

Bancroft Fund Ltd.
NYSE AmericanUSDEQUITY Financial Services DELAYED
Last price
23.56
▲ 0.41 (1.77%)
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Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
—
Prev close
23.15
Day high
23.65
Day low
23.17
Volume
9.14K
Market cap
$132.58M
P/E (TTM)
3.57
52W range
21.06 – 27.33

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+2.21% +0.5%
1M
-2.81% -4.1%
3M
-5.31% -8.5%
6M
+8.17% -6.6%
YTD
+6.61% -7.2%
1Y
+5.51% -10.0%
3Y
+49.40% -32.2%
5Y
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Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

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Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
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Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
0
Net selling
Buy transactions
0
0 shares
Sell transactions
0
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Net transactions
0
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
—
Not enough filings
Insider-held shares
176.08K
Total on file

Insider transactions

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DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Jan 5, 26
GABELLI MARIO JOSEPH
Director
SELL 1.30K $28.93K Indirect
Dec 17, 25
DINSMORE JAMES ANDREW
President
BUY 220 $4.73K Direct
Oct 20, 25
GABELLI MARIO JOSEPH
Director
SELL 1.00K $23.43K Indirect
Oct 16, 25
VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C.
Director
SELL 1.15K $27.06K Indirect
Dec 23, 24
GABELLI MARIO JOSEPH
Director
SELL 1.50K $26.61K Indirect
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

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Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

3 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
DINSMORE JAMES ANDREW
President 990 Purchase
GABELLI MARIO JOSEPH
Director — Sale
VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C.
Director — Sale

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$132.58M
Enterprise value—
Revenue (TTM)$3.98M
Gross profit$3.98M
EBITDA—
Net income$37.69M
EPS (TTM)$6.60
Free cash flow—
Total cash—
Total debt$939.77K
Book value / share$24.53
Shares outstanding5.63M
Float—
Short % of float0.11%
Dividend yield6.96%
Beta (5Y)1.02

Valuation & profitability ratios

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Trailing P/E3.57
Forward P/E—
PEG ratio—
Price / sales—
Price / book0.96
EV / revenue—
EV / EBITDA—
Gross margin100.00%
Operating margin46.98%
Profit margin984.47%
Return on equity25.49%
Return on assets0.92%
Debt / equity0.57
Current ratio2.89
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Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 3 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420222021YoY
Total revenue $43.43M$14.40M-$48.38M$42.81M +201.5%
Operating revenue $43.43M$14.40M-$48.38M$42.81M +201.5%
Selling, general & admin $430.14K$430.32K$362.09K$507.56K -0.0%
Total operating expense $520.27K$499.65K$428.42K$572.62K +4.1%
Pre-tax income $42.91M$13.90M-$48.80M$42.24M +208.6%
Net income $42.91M$13.90M-$48.80M$42.24M +208.6%
Net income to common $41.39M$12.30M-$50.42M$40.63M +236.5%
Basic EPS 7.372.39-8.307.84 +208.4%
Diluted EPS 7.37——7.84 —
Basic shares 5.62M——5.18M —
Diluted shares 5.62M5.15M6.07M5.18M +9.1%

Options analytics

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Put / call volume
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Put / call open interest
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Positioning, not flow
Max pain
—
—
ATM implied vol
—
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
—
—
Call volume
0
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
0
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
—
—
Heaviest put OI
—
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Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

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Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Apr 2010 —0.24 —
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter — — $0 —
Next quarter — — $0 —
Current year — — $0 —
Next year — — $0 —

Analyst targets & ownership

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Mean target—
High target—
Low target—
Implied upside—
Analyst count—
ConsensusNONE
Strong buy / Buy— / —
Hold—
Sell / Strong sell— / —
Held by insiders3.13%
Held by institutions40.39%
Institutions holding43
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Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
23.37
+0.82% from price
SMA 20
23.75
-0.80% from price
SMA 50
24.26
-2.90% from price
SMA 100
24.80
-5.02% from price
SMA 200
23.97
-1.70% from price
EMA 12
23.44
+0.51% from price
EMA 26
23.80
-0.99% from price
EMA 50
24.13
-2.35% from price
RSI (14)
45.9
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.36
Hist -0.03
ATR (14)
0.49
2.09% of price
Realised vol 30D
18.9%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
24.84
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
22.66
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
24.26 vs 23.97
Trend bias
Below 200
-1.70%

Options chain

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Expiry
Spot 23.56
Calls
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Puts
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Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
-0.02
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
-0.01
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
18.9%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-15.1%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-57.4%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
0.49
2.09% of price
Beta (reported)
1.02
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
5.99K
Prior 4.25K
Change vs prior
+40.9%
Shorts adding
% of float
0.11%
Normal
% of shares out
0.11%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
0.6
Liquid
Float
—
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$1.64 / yr
Forward yield6.96%
5-year avg yield8.04%
Payout ratio20.30%
Ex-dividend dateSep 16, 2026
Next pay dateDec 28, 2018
Last split—
Split date—

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