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FairStock Score: 71/100 — STEADY

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AI Analysis

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

I look at this not as an operating business but as a closed-end fund that owns public equities across the world. The manager uses bottom-up and top-down fundamental analysis, but a fund's competitive advantage is mainly manager skill, scale, and the closed-end structure. The numbers as of the 2026-10-13 close are intriguing: FairStock shows a price of $10.22, P/E of 3.92, P/B of 0.97, dividend yield of 12.57%, and a Graham Number of $24.29, implying a 57.93% margin of safety. Debt is minimal at D/E 0.03, and ROE of 26.60% looks strong, while beta of 0.91 suggests modest market sensitivity. But I must weigh that against a Piotroski F-score of only 2/9, a ROCE of 3.68%, and no revenue or profit growth figures to judge. The Lynch category is none because only zero years of filed results are available, so I have no durable earnings record. For a closed-end fund, reported earnings and P/E can be volatile and may reflect unrealized gains or losses, not recurring cash earnings. The high distribution yield is attractive, but I would want to know whether it is covered by investment income rather than capital. Altman Z-score 50.42 and FairStock Score 71/100 offer some comfort, but the F-score is a warning. At 0.97 times book, the market price is not demanding, but a fund can stay cheap if the portfolio or distribution is questioned. Growth trajectory is essentially unknown from the data; I would require more filed results before calling it a bargain.

In plain English: The fund owns dividend-paying stocks from around the world. Its per-share profit is high compared with the share price, and it trades a little below book value, so the price looks cheap on those measures. But its recent quality score is weak and there is no multi-year record, so the business is not clearly strong.

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

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