Summary
Columbia Balanced Fund Institutional 3 Class is a mutual fund. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day. Positions inside: 978. The ten largest make up 32% of the fund.
- Positions
- 978
- Dividend yield
- 6.10%
What speaks for it
Nothing stands out in its favour.
What to watch
Nothing here calls for caution.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -0.3%
- 3 months
- +1.6%
- This year
- +6.3%
- 1 year
- +2.6%
- 3 years
- +36%
- 5 years
- +8.0%
- 10 years
- +58%
- Avg. market cap
- $2.04T
- P/E
- 24.6x
- Forward P/E
- 21.6x
- P/S
- 5.5x
- P/B
- 6.0x
- P/FCF
- 29.5x
- EV/EBITDA
- 18.1x
- Dividend yield
- 0.69%
- ROIC
- 25.3%
- ROE
- 51.9%
- Gross margin
- 60.3%
- Operating margin
- 34.0%
- Net margin
- 31.7%
- Payout ratio
- 16.9%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 0.8x
- Beta
- 0.91
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 54% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 NVNvidia NVDA 5.8%
- 2 MSMicrosoft MSFT 4.5%
- 3 AAApple AAPL 4.1%
- 4 COLUMBIA SHORT TERM CASH FUND 3.7%
- 5 AMAmazon AMZN 3.0%
- 6 IEiShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF IEFA 2.8%
- 7 AVBroadcom AVGO 2.1%
- 8 GOAlphabet GOOG 2.0%
- 9 MEMeta META 1.9%
- 10 MUMicron MU 1.7%
Positions in the fund: 978. The ten largest make up 32% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
By company size
- Mega cap 76%
- Large cap 23%
- Mid cap 0.3%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M. Counted from the companies that make up 57% of the fund.
Largest size group: Mega cap (76%).
What does it cost me?
We do not know the costs of this fund.
How has it done?
Growing slowly- A year on average, 10 years
- +4.7%
- Deepest drop
- -28%
- Yearly volatility
- 11%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 4.7%. Deepest drop in these years: 28% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 6.10%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.28
Over the last 12 months it paid $3.61 per share, which is 6.10% of today's price. The last payment was $0.28 on Sep 17, 2026.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 24.6
- Average Bulios Score
- 72 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 11%
- Fairly valued 2.3%
- Overvalued 87%
On average the companies inside trade for 24.6 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 87% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 54% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Can I buy it as an ETF?
A mutual fund is bought from the fund company. These ETFs hold much of the same and trade on an exchange, so an ordinary broker carries them.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
QU QUU.TO Mackenzie US Large Cap Equity Index ETF | Canada | 0.07% | $5.20B | +16% | Pays out | 44% |
TP TPU.TO TD U.S. Equity Index ETF | Canada | 0.07% | $4.62B | +16% | Pays out | 44% |
QA QAH.TO Mackenzie US Large Cap Equity Index ETF (CAD-Hedged) | Canada | 0.07% | $886.8M | +14% | Pays out | 43% |
MG MGC Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF | United States | 0.05% | $11.0B | +16% | Pays out | 40% |
EL EL4I.DE Deka MSCI USA LC UCITS ETF | Germany | 0.30% | $145.3M | +20% | Pays out | 40% |
IW IWL iShares Russell Top 200 ETF | United States | 0.15% | $2.24B | +15% | Pays out | 39% |