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What grade does FDVLX get?

Morningstar rates funds on what they returned. We grade them on where their money sits today: how much of the book overlaps with the converged buys of the top specialist stock pickers.

C

Fundprints Fund Grade · as of 2026-10-01

Fidelity Value Fund

#238 of 500 graded active funds · value · mid segment peer group

The point · specialist footprint

FDVLX puts less of its book behind proven specialists than 80% of graded funds.

Bottom 20%

● Bottom 40%

Middle

Top 40%

Top 20%

beat the S&P in 22% of quarters+3.8%/qtr better · 43% beat rate

That has mattered: over the past 2.7 years, funds with this little specialist backing trailed top-rung funds by about 3.8% per quarter and beat the S&P in only 22% of fund-quarters. If it also charges an active fee, the higher-graded alternatives deserve a look.

10,000+ funds tracked · the graded specialists among them drive every read

3 funds in the same segment carry an A. Members see the names and what they charge. See the alternatives →

The grade scores this fund's specialist share, the slice that overlaps what the top 1% of proven funds are building. We ignore index ballast and names outside our edge on purpose: that slice is small, and it's what decides the outcome.

FDVLX vs the Honor Roll · share card ↗

Conviction exposure

5.7%

of the book in specialist-converged names

Late-stage weight

27.2%

of the book in Crowded or Fading names

Active share

92.8%

how far it strays from the index

The best grades have beaten the worst by about +5% a year since we began grading. The gap held in 9 out of 10 months. Measured on filings as they were published, no hindsight.

Inside the book: top names by stage · as of 2026-10-20

Early Conviction
RS 0.7%AYI 0.6%LAD 0.6%+8 locked
Consensus
WDC 3%IRM 1.2%ES 0.9%+91 locked
Emerging
DAL 0.9%UPS 0.8%NXST 0.6%+5 locked
Crowded
SSNC 0.9%TRGP 0.8%VST 0.8%+20 locked
Fading
PCG 1.2%APO 0.9%EQIX 0.9%+29 locked

We email you the day it crosses 50% crowded, and where you stand every month.

Graded monthly from point-in-time filings. A description of where the money sits, not a recommendation. Evidence, not advice.

The read · what to do with it

Fidelity Value Fund grades C, ranking 238 of 500, with only 5.7% specialist backing, a sign that proven active money has limited conviction here. Over a quarter of the portfolio sits in late-stage positions, and names like PCG, APO, and EQIX are actively being exited by specialists. The early bright spots are DAL, TRGP, and UPS, but they are small weights.

→ Watch PCG, APO, and EQIX closely, specialists are leaving all three and they total roughly 3% of the fund.

→ Higher graded funds exist in the same Fidelity family and in this segment, worth comparing before staying put.

Support leaving these positions

PCG 1.2% of the fund · Fading

SSNC 0.9% of the fund · Crowded

APO 0.9% of the fund · Fading

EQIX 0.9% of the fund · Fading

TRGP 0.8% of the fund · Crowded

Where it's genuinely early

DAL 0.9% of the fund · Emerging

UPS 0.8% of the fund · Emerging

RS 0.7% of the fund · Early Conviction

Read from today's disclosed book. Evidence, not advice.

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