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General American Investors Company

GAM
50
Asset Management · Financial Services
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Winston Score
50
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Good
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Data not available
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Exceptional

Winston Score History

The full picture

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.

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
14.2%
Healthy — 14.2% operating margin
Return on the money invested
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 growth
Sales YoY
-11.7%
Shrinking sales (-11.7% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+86.8%
Earnings growing fast (+86.8% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
0%
Weak — only 0% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
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

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
4.4x
no trend
Attractive valuation — P/E 4.4

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

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
10.36%
no trend
Healthy income — 10.36% yield

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

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
+148.6%
no trend
Dividend growing fast (148.6% YoY)

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