BCV — BANCROFT FUND LTD
Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21
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Performance
Technicals
Dividends
Measured signals that fired on BCV
| date | signal | measured base rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-05 | Short volume far above its own normal short | -0.76% over 21 days · t = -2.79 · n = 5,897 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
Excess return against a matched control group, on a point-in-time universe that includes delisted companies. Most families do not survive that. How the measurement works →
Insider transactions (Form 4)
| date | insider | what | shares | price | value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-05 | GABELLI MARIO J Director | Open-market sale | 1.3K | 22.26 | 28.9K |
| 2025-12-17 | Dinsmore James Andrew President | Open-market purchase | 220 | 21.50 | 4.7K |
| 2025-10-20 | GABELLI MARIO J Director | Open-market sale | 1.0K | 23.43 | 23.4K |
| 2025-10-16 | VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C Director | Open-market sale | 750 | 23.53 | 17.7K |
| 2025-10-16 | VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C Director | Open-market sale | 400 | 23.52 | 9.4K |
| 2024-12-23 | GABELLI MARIO J Director | Open-market sale | 1.5K | 17.74 | 26.6K |
| 2024-08-29 | GABELLI MARIO J Director | Open-market sale | 4.0K | 16.38 | 65.5K |
| 2024-07-29 | GABELLI MARIO J Director | Open-market sale | 1.5K | 16.31 | 24.5K |
| 2024-04-11 | GABELLI MARIO J Director | Open-market sale | 2.0K | 15.46 | 30.9K |
| 2024-03-28 | GABELLI MARIO J Director | Open-market sale | 4.0K | 15.90 | 63.6K |
Open-market purchases (code P) are the informative ones. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are compensation mechanics, not decisions. How to read a Form 4 →
Largest institutional holders
| manager | value | shares |
|---|---|---|
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC | 6.6M | 304.3K |
| Saba Capital Management, L.P. | 6.0M | 277.5K |
| MORGAN STANLEY | 3.2M | 148.2K |
| Pathstone Holdings, LLC | 3.1M | 145.4K |
| BLUE BELL PRIVATE WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC | 2.3M | 107.9K |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ | 2.2M | 100.8K |
| GUGGENHEIM CAPITAL LLC | 2.0M | 91.3K |
| Invesco Ltd. | 1.9M | 89.1K |
| Beckerman Institutional, LLC | 1.6M | 73.9K |
| UBS Group AG | 1.3M | 60.9K |
13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →
Latest SEC filings
| form | filed | period | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHEDULE 13G/A | 2026-08-14 | — | on EDGAR ↗ |
| N-CSRS | 2026-06-08 | 2026-03-31 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 4 | 2026-06-02 | 2025-10-16 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| NPORT-P | 2026-06-01 | 2026-03-31 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| SCHEDULE 13D/A | 2026-03-30 | — | on EDGAR ↗ |
| DEFA14A | 2026-03-19 | — | on EDGAR ↗ |
| DEF 14A | 2026-03-19 | 2026-05-11 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| NPORT-P | 2026-03-02 | 2025-12-31 | on EDGAR ↗ |
Short selling
This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →
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