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General American Investors Company

GAM
47
Asset Management · Financial Services
Price
$64.18
+0.47 (+0.74%)
Market Cap
$1.54B
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Winston Score
47
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Jul 25, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025

Share count falling — buybacks

4.4% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 16.8M (2021) → 16.1M (2025)

General American Investors Company is a closed-end investment fund based in the United States. It pools money from shareholders and invests it in a diversified portfolio of publicly traded stocks, focusing primarily on long-term capital growth. The fund has been operating since 1927, making it one of the older closed-end funds in the country.

The company makes money by earning dividends and capital gains from the stocks it holds, passing returns along to shareholders. It operates entirely in the U.S. financial markets and has a market cap of around $1.5 billion. As a closed-end fund, it trades on the New York Stock Exchange like a regular stock, and its shares can trade at a discount or premium to the actual value of its underlying holdings. The main risk is that if its portfolio of stocks performs poorly, or if the fund continues trading at a persistent discount to its net asset value, shareholder returns will suffer.

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Quality

Gross Margin
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
-25.5%
Losing money on operations — -25.5%
ROCE
-0.1%
Weak — -0.1% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-62.0%
Shrinking sales (-62.0% YoY)
EPS YoY
+9.6%
Earnings growing (9.6% YoY)

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
0%
Weak — only 0% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
0.0%
Thin free cash flow (0.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.00
Conservative — low debt load (0.00)
Interest Cover
N/A
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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
4.6x
Attractive valuation — P/E 4.6

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Dividend Yield
10.36%
Healthy income — 10.36% yield

Yield above 6% — often a flag the market is pricing in a cut.

Dividend Growth
+148.6%
Dividend growing fast (148.6% YoY)

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