Adams Diversified Equity Fund Inc. (ADX)

FairStock Score: 56/100 — STEADY

Key Financials

AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

As a value investor, I start with what ADX is: an investment manager/fund, not an operating business with a durable brand or cost advantage. At the 2026-10-13 close of $26.12, FairStock’s calculations show a P/E of 5.33 and P/B of 0.99, so Mr. Market is pricing it near book value and at a low multiple. The Graham Number is $52.21, implying a 49.97% margin of safety if those calculations hold. The 7.66% dividend yield and 0.92 beta add appeal for income and lower volatility. Return on equity of 19.73% looks strong, and an Altman Z-Score of 173.47 suggests no conventional distress signal. But I see red flags. ROCE is only 0.41%, the Piotroski F-Score is 0/9, and revenue/profit growth are unavailable. The Lynch category is none because there are only 0 years of filed results, needing 3. That means I cannot judge consistency, distribution sustainability, or portfolio performance over a cycle. The FairStock Score of 56/100 captures this mixed picture. A fund can look statistically cheap because the market expects lower distributions, manager underperformance, or asset erosion; I cannot tell from these figures. Without more filed annual results, I treat the 49.97% margin of safety as tempting but unproven. The price near the 52-week high of $26.56 also reduces the cushion.

In plain English: Adams Diversified Equity Fund is a publicly owned investment manager that runs equity and related strategies, mostly for investment companies. Its numbers show a high dividend yield and a price near the top of its recent range, while some value measures suggest the shares are cheap and others suggest the business quality is unclear. Because there is very little filed history, it looks more like a mixed, uncertain value case than a clearly strong or clearly weak one.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

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