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What grade does NBFCX 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

Neuberger Berman Focus Trust

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

The point · specialist footprint

NBFCX puts more of its book behind proven specialists than 92% 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 on this rung beat bottom-rung funds by about 3.8 points per quarter, and beat the S&P in 43% of fund-quarters versus their 22%. The evidence argues this fund earns its seat.

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

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

46.4%

of the book in specialist-converged names

Late-stage weight

23%

of the book in Crowded or Fading names

Active share

82.2%

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

AMZN 6.9%

Consensus

NVDA 4%SNOW 3%INTC 2.4%+13 locked

Emerging

LMT 1%

Crowded

GOOG 1.8%CVS 1.6%

Fading

DTM 1.9%AON 1%

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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

DTM 1.9% of the fund · Fading

GOOG 1.8% of the fund · Crowded

CVS 1.6% of the fund · Crowded

AON 1% of the fund · Fading

Where it's genuinely early

AMZN 6.9% of the fund · Early Conviction

LMT 1% of the fund · Emerging

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

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