Funds / BCV
BCV Bancroft Fund Ltd.
Gabelli Funds · pays quarterly · 1.30% expense ratio
Latest payout
$0.4100
paid Sep 23, 2026
Return of capital
0%
Sep 23 payout · estimated (19a-1)
Next ex-date
Nov 23, 2026
pays ~Dec 30 · projected dates
Distribution rate
7.11%
issuer’s annualized rate, Sep 30, 2026
Payouts per share
- Income (the berries)
- Return of capital (a cutting from the bush)
- Return of capital, estimated
- Split not published
What the past year did to your cost basis
Holding 100 shares of BCV through the last 4 payouts, you’d have collected $146.00. About $0.66 of it (1%) was return of capital: not taxed when paid, but it came off your cost basis, which raises the gain when you sell.
Only payouts with a published split are counted in the return-of-capital figure.
Uses the issuer’s final Form 8937 figures where filed and 19a-1 estimates otherwise. Gooseberry does this per lot, with your real purchase dates.
Upcoming dates
| Ex-date | Pay date | Per share | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 2026 | Dec 30, 2026 | — | Projected |
| Mar 16, 2027 | Mar 23, 2027 | — | Projected |
To be paid, you need to own shares before the ex-date. “Projected” dates are estimated from the fund’s usual schedule until the issuer announces them.
Payout history
| Paid | Per share | Return of capital |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | $0.4100 | 0% estimated (19a-1) |
| Jun 23, 2026 | $0.3500 | Not published |
| Mar 24, 2026 | $0.3500 | Not published |
| Dec 30, 2025 | $0.3500 | 2% final (Form 8937) |
| Sep 23, 2025 | $0.3200 | 2% final (Form 8937) |
| Jun 23, 2025 | $0.3200 | 2% final (Form 8937) |
| Mar 24, 2025 | $0.3200 | 2% final (Form 8937) |
| Dec 30, 2024 | $0.3200 | 1% final (Form 8937) |
| Sep 23, 2024 | $0.3200 | 1% final (Form 8937) |
| Jun 21, 2024 | $0.3200 | 1% final (Form 8937) |
| Mar 21, 2024 | $0.3200 | 1% final (Form 8937) |
Fund facts
- Issuer
- Gabelli Funds
- Exchange
- NYSE American
- Pays
- Quarterly
- Inception
- Apr 20, 1971
- Expense ratio
- 1.30%
- Net assets
- $180M
- Price
- $23.08 · Sep 30, 2026
- CUSIP
- 059695106
Issuer documents
Latest 19a-1 notices
Form 8937 (final return of capital)
Data from Gabelli Funds’s public disclosures, updated Oct 1, 2026, 11:28 AM ET. Not investment or tax advice.