The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc. GAB

Financial Services · Asset Management · valued as of 2026-11-03 · statements 2025-12-31

Average Intrinsic Value
$2.40B
Market Cap
$1.76B
Margin of Safety
26.7%
Intrinsic / Market Ratio
1.36

How Each Value Is Built

The screener's three formulas on the reported figures. Each card reads the same way: the value as a sum of numbered terms, each term's calculation opened under it, from the reported figures to the value. The list ranks companies by their plain average over the market cap.

EPV + Growth

1.99B USD

what the normal year's earnings are worth for ever, plus growth that pays

Profit

3.23B USD

15 years of cash the shareholders can take out, and the equity left at year 15

FCFF

1.99B USD

15 years of cash for shareholders and lenders, less what is owed

Intrinsic Value

2.40B USD

the plain average of the three, uncapped, as the screener averages them

Intrinsic Value

2.40B USD

from the sum above

Market Cap

1.76B USD

today's price times the shares

Intrinsic Value ÷ Market Cap

1.36×

the ratio the screener ranks by; Margin of Safety +26.7% (1 − Market Cap ÷ Intrinsic Value)

Each card below builds one of the three values from the reported years.

Earnings power value plus growth: 1.99B USD
What the normal year's operating profit after tax is worth if it lasts for ever, plus what the new investment adds beyond its cost, less the net debt that comes before the shareholders (or plus the net cash).

The earnings power value was not computed (a NOPAT at or below zero this year), so the value is the book value today, 1.99B USD.

Market value

Market Cap1.76B USD

Today's price times the shares.

Value vs market

Margin of Safety+11.4%

1 minus the market cap as a share of the value.

Profit value: today's value of the shareholders' equity, from the cash it can pay them (FCFE): 3.23B USD
Fifteen years of free cash flow to equity (FCFE), each brought to today at the cost of equity, plus the equity at year 15 brought to today.
①Present Value of the 15 Years of FCFE2.25B USD
+②Equity at Year 15, Today980.64M USD
=Value3.23B USD
FCFE: the net income left for the shareholders once the business keeps what next year's growth needsEquity reinvestment: the part of the year's net income kept in the business to grow the next year; below zero, capital the business releases to the shareholdersPresent value of the FCFEColoured bars show the FCFE, grey bars the equity reinvestment. With a positive equity reinvestment the two stacked are the year's normalized income; with a negative one the grey is below zero, capital the business releases, and the normalized income is the FCFE plus that negative amount. Shaded, years 6 to 10: the growth falling to its long-run rate and the ROE on new investment falling to the cost of equity. Axes linear.

①Present Value of the 15 Years of FCFE

2.25B USD

②Equity at Year 15, Today

980.64M USD

Market value

Market Cap1.76B USD

Today's price times the shares.

Value vs market

Margin of Safety+45.6%

1 minus the market cap as a share of the value.

FCFF value: today's value of the shareholders' equity, from the cash the firm can pay its shareholders and lenders (FCFF): 1.99B USD
Fifteen years of free cash flow to the firm (FCFF), each brought to today at the WACC, plus the invested capital at year 15 brought to today, less the net debt today (or plus the net cash).

The projection was not made (an operating profit at or below zero in the latest three years), so the value is the book value today, 1.99B USD, as the screener leaves it.

①Present Value of the 15 Years of FCFF

Not in the value

②Invested Capital at Year 15, Today

Not in the value

③Net Debt Today

Not in the value

Market value

Market Cap1.76B USD

Today's price times the shares.

Value vs market

Margin of Safety+11.4%

1 minus the market cap as a share of the value.

The Rates and the Capital the Values Read

The WACC and the cost of equity each value is discounted at, the book value and the net debt each starts from, and the seven quality metrics, from the same run.

WACC: 9.00%
weighted average cost of capital: the yearly return the shareholders and the lenders together require, weighted by what each puts in; the rate that brings the firm's future cash to today.
Cost of Equity =Risk-Free Rate 4.50%+Beta 0.75×Market Risk Premium 6.00%= 9.00%

The yearly return the shareholders require for the risk they carry; it is the rate that brings their future cash to today.

Tax Rate for WACC 25.00% (default): the statements print a tax provision of 0 USD on a pretax income of 303.49M USD, which gives no rate between 0 and the profit before tax, so the 25% default stands for the tax the interest saves.

Interest Expense =EBIT —−Pretax Income 303.49M USD= —

The interest the company paid: EBIT is the profit before tax plus the interest.

No interest is read: it needs debt and an EBIT above the profit before tax, the gap between them being the interest. Without it the cost of debt takes the 4% default.

Cost of Debt 4.00% (default): with no debt or no interest read, the 4% default after tax stands for what the lenders are paid a year.

Debt Weight =Total Debt 0 USDMarket Cap + Total Debt 1.76B USD + 0 USD= 0.00%

The part of the capital the lenders put in, at market value.

WACC =Equity Weight 100.00%×Cost of Equity 9.00%+Debt Weight 0.00%×Cost of Debt 4.00%= 9.00%

Weighted average cost of capital: the yearly return the shareholders and the lenders together require, weighted by what each puts in; the rate that brings the firm's future cash to today.

Book value and net debt today
Both from the balance sheet of the newest quarter, 2025-12-31.

Total Assets 2.09B USD − Total Liabilities 105.52M USD = Book Value Today 1.99B USD

Net debt today 0: a bank's debt is the money it lends on, not how the business is financed.

The book value is what Profit starts from and what stands when a projection is not made; the book value plus the net debt is what FCFF starts from; the net debt comes off Greenwald's and FCFF's values before the shareholders.

Quality metrics
Read beside the value, never a condition for it: every company is valued, and a filter in the list is the reader's choice.
MetricFrom
Share dilutionShares Today ÷ Shares Two Years Back − 13.0%at most 5%passes315,312,529 / 306,048,800
Accrual quality(Operating Cash Flow − Net Income) ÷ Total Assets-6.7%at least -10.0%passes(163.46M USD − 303.49M USD) ÷ 2.09B USD
Price to bookMarket Cap ÷ Book Value Today0.89×at most 3×passes1.76B USD ÷ 1.99B USD
Operating marginOperating Income ÷ Revenue-1.0%above 10.0%does not pass-2.90M USD ÷ 305.56M USD
Revenue growthRevenue ÷ Revenue a Year Before − 150.4%above 10.0%passes305.56M USD / 203.21M USD
Net cash(Cash − Total Debt) ÷ Market Cap0.0%above -30%passes(553.98K USD − 0 USD) ÷ 1.76B USD
Operating efficiencyOperating Income ÷ Gross Profit—above 25.0%not measured0 USD ÷ 0 USD

Market Data

The provider's ratios and the analysts' consensus beside the argument; none of them enters a value.

Market data
The data provider's own ratios and the analysts' consensus, read beside the valuation, never in it.

Share price

5 USD

Enterprise value

2.15B USD

market cap plus net debt

EV / EBITDA

—

Price / book

0.86×

the provider's book

Price / earnings

4.16×

Return on equity

18.8%

the provider's, not the engine's

Profit margin

943.3%

Revenue growth

36.6%

Analyst target, mean

—

Analysts

—

opinions in the consensus

Financial Statements

The income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow the screener holds, year by year, in USD.

Financial statements, year by year
The annual lines the screener holds today, in USD at each period's rate; the figures this valuation read are in its calculation above.
USD2022202320242025
Income statement

Revenue

-198.19M234.00M203.21M305.56M

Gross profit

————

Operating income

————

EBITDA

operating income before depreciation and amortisation

————

Pretax income

-199.29M231.68M201.46M303.49M

Net income

-199.29M231.68M201.46M303.49M

Normalized income

net income without one-off items, as the data provider prints it; Profit's line when printed

-199.29M231.68M201.46M303.49M

R&D

————
Balance sheet, year end

Total assets

1.94B2.05B1.96B2.09B

Total liabilities

75.22M128.37M101.93M105.52M

Shareholders' equity

the equity the parent's shareholders own, as printed, without minority interest; the book value the values read is total assets less total liabilities, in Book Value and Net Debt above

1.86B1.92B1.86B1.99B

Total debt

——424.84K—

Cash and equivalents

9.51K2.95M—553.98K

Net PP&E

fixed assets after depreciation

————

Working capital

current assets less current liabilities

————
Cash flow

Operating cash flow

234.15M143.13M228.49M163.46M

Capital expenditure

paid out, so below zero

————

Depreciation and amortisation

————

Free cash flow

operating cash flow plus capital expenditure

234.15M143.13M228.49M163.46M