Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund NIE NYSE · Financials · United States
$23.27 -0.68% -$0.16
Summary
Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund 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: 95. The ten largest make up 49% of the fund.
- Positions
- 95
- Dividend yield
- 9.28%
What speaks for it
Nothing stands out in its favour.
What to watch
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 43% from its high.
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
- -8.1%
- 3 months
- -13%
- This year
- -6.6%
- 1 year
- -7.6%
- 3 years
- +14%
- 5 years
- -27%
- 10 years
- +26%
- Avg. market cap
- $1.84T
- P/E
- 25.1x
- Forward P/E
- 21.3x
- P/S
- 6.7x
- P/B
- 7.2x
- P/FCF
- 35.8x
- EV/EBITDA
- 17.6x
- Dividend yield
- 0.44%
- ROIC
- 24.8%
- ROE
- 56.0%
- Gross margin
- 63.0%
- Operating margin
- 48.6%
- Net margin
- 16.6%
- Payout ratio
- 11.0%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 2.3x
- Beta
- 1.10
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 83% 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 12%
- 2 GOAlphabet GOOG 8.8%
- 3 MSMicrosoft MSFT 4.9%
- 4 AVBroadcom AVGO 4.2%
- 5 LLEli Lilly LLY 3.7%
- 6 MEMeta META 3.5%
- 7 AAApple AAPL 3.2%
- 8 VVisa V 2.8%
- 9 GOAlphabet GOOG 2.7%
- 10 GEGeneral Electric Company GE 2.5%
Positions in the fund: 95. The ten largest make up 49% of it.
Composition as of Nov 14, 2026.
Where is it spread?
By company size
- Mega cap 58%
- Large cap 36%
- Mid cap 6.6%
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 94% of the fund.
Largest size group: Mega cap (58%).
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
- +2.4%
- Deepest drop
- -43%
- Yearly volatility
- 15%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 2.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 43% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 9.28%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.58
Over the last 12 months it paid $2.16 per share, which is 9.28% of today's price. The last payment was $0.58 on Sep 14, 2026.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 25.1
- Average Bulios Score
- 71 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 48%
- Fairly valued 12%
- Overvalued 40%
On average the companies inside trade for 25.1 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 48% of the rated weight comes out as undervalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 83% 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.
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