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What grade does GABAX 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.

Fundprints Fund Grade · as of 2026-09-01

Gabelli Asset Fund (The)

#413 of 440 graded active funds · blend · large segment peer group

The point · specialist footprint

GABAX puts less of its book behind proven specialists than 65% of graded funds.

Bottom 20%

● Bottom 40%

Middle

Top 40%

Top 20%

beat the S&P in 22% of quarters+3.8 pts/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 points 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.

2,825 graded funds · 2.7 years of filings, measured as they were published · evidence, not advice

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.

Conviction exposure

9.9%

of the book in specialist-converged names

Late-stage weight

20.9%

of the book in Crowded or Fading names

Active share

84.7%

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 2026-09-09

Early Conviction

DEO 0.9%MDLZ 0.3%TKR 0.3%+15 locked

Consensus

AME 3.6%CAT 3.2%DE 2.3%+189 locked

Emerging

MSGS 2.2%AXP 1.4%FLS 1.3%+26 locked

Crowded

SONY 1.9%RSG 1.7%SPGI 0.9%+43 locked

Fading

TDS 1.3%COST 1.1%ORLY 1.1%+83 locked

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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

Support leaving these positions

SONY 1.9% of the fund · Crowded

RSG 1.7% of the fund · Crowded

TDS 1.3% of the fund · Fading

COST 1.1% of the fund · Fading

ORLY 1.1% of the fund · Fading

Where it's genuinely early

MSGS 2.2% of the fund · Emerging

AXP 1.4% of the fund · Emerging

FLS 1.3% of the fund · Emerging

Same family, higher grade

GABUX · A — Gabelli Utilities Fd Class AAA

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

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