Bancroft Fund (Bancroft Fund) Shiller PE Ratio

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Bancroft Fund Annual Data
	Trend	Oct12	Oct13	Oct14	Oct15	Oct16	Oct17	Oct18	Oct19	Oct20	Oct21
Shiller PE Ratio							-	-	10.64	10.15	9.02

Bancroft Fund Semi-Annual Data
	Apr13	Oct13	Apr14	Oct14	Apr15	Oct15	Apr16	Oct16	Apr17	Oct17	Apr18	Oct18	Apr19	Oct19	Apr20	Oct20	Apr21	Oct21	Apr22	Oct22
Shiller PE Ratio																10.15	-	9.02	-	6.82

For the Asset Management subindustry, Bancroft Fund's Shiller PE Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Shiller PE Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Bancroft Fund's Shiller PE Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Bancroft Fund's Shiller PE Ratio falls into.

Bancroft Fund Shiller PE Ratio Calculation

For Shiller PE Ratio, the earnings of the past 10 years are inflation-adjusted and averaged. The result is used for P/E calculation. Since it looks at the average over the last 10 years, the Shiller PE Ratio is also called PE10.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The same calculation is applied here to individual companies.

Bancroft Fund's Shiller PE Ratio for today is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Bancroft Fund's E10 for the fiscal year that ended in Oct21 is calculated as:

For example, Bancroft Fund's adjusted earnings per share data for the fiscal year that ended in Oct21 was:

Current CPI (Oct21) = 116.6958.

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Add all the adjusted EPS together and divide 10 will get our E10.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.

Bancroft Fund  (AMEX:BCV) Shiller PE Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PE Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Shiller PE Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of profit margins during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Shiller PE Ratio should give similar results to regular PE Ratio.

Compared with the PS Ratio, the Shiller PE Ratio makes the comparison between different industries more meaningful.

Be Aware

Shiller PE Ratio assumes that over the long term, businesses and profitability revert to their means. If a company's business model does not work in the future compared with the past, Shiller PE Ratio and PS Ratio will give false valuations.

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