Summary
The Merger Fund - Class A 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: 319. The ten largest make up 48% of the fund.
- Positions
- 319
- Dividend yield
- 7.21%
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
- +0.2%
- 3 months
- +1.5%
- This year
- +3.1%
- 1 year
- -3.2%
- 3 years
- +3.1%
- 5 years
- +2.5%
- 10 years
- +15%
- Avg. market cap
- $17.4B
- P/E
- 9.3x
- Forward P/E
- -
- P/S
- -
- P/B
- 0.3x
- P/FCF
- -
- EV/EBITDA
- -
- Dividend yield
- 0.54%
- ROIC
- -
- ROE
- 8.8%
- Gross margin
- -
- Operating margin
- -
- Net margin
- -
- Payout ratio
- 5.0%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- -
- Beta
- 0.01
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 24% 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 Goldman Sachs Financial Square Funds - Treasury Instruments Fund - Standard Shares (seven-day effect 8.1%
- 2 Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. Class A 6.0%
- 3 Electronic Arts, Inc. 5.7%
- 4 Warner Bros Discovery, Inc. 5.4%
- 5 NSNorfolk Southern NSC 5.3%
- 6 Webster Financial Corp. 4.5%
- 7 WCVirtus Westchester Event-Driven Fund Class - A WCERX 4.3%
- 8 Chart Industries, Inc. 4.0%
- 9 UNUniFirst Corporation UNF 2.2%
- 10 Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. Class A 2.1%
Positions in the fund: 319. The ten largest make up 48% of it.
Composition as of Oct 24, 2026.
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
- +1.4%
- Deepest drop
- -7.6%
- Yearly volatility
- 7.5%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 1.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 7.6% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 7.21%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $1.28
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.28 per share, which is 7.21% of today's price. The last payment was $1.28 on Dec 16, 2025.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 9.3
- Average Bulios Score
- 47 out of 100
On average the companies inside trade for 9.3 times their yearly profit.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 24% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.