BCV Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Bancroft Ltd. | AMEX:BCV)

Bancroft Fund Ltd. operates as a closed-end, diversified management investment company and invests primarily in convertible securities, with the objectives of providing income and the potential for capital appreciation; which objectives the Fund considers to be relatively equal, over the long-term, due to the nature of the securities in which it invests.

Bancroft Ltd. trades on the AMEX stock market under the symbol BCV.

As of December 24, 2025, BCV stock price declined to $22.27 with 6,751 million shares trading.

BCV has a beta of 0.60, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BCV has a correlation of 0.35 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BCV has a market cap of $129.62 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, BCV traded as high as $23.88 and as low as $14.09.

BCV has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +32.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.3%. However, in the most recent history, BCV shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning +1.9% in the last 3 month period and -0.8% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +4.4% and +1.4%, respectively.

BCV support price is $21.92 and resistance is $22.70 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BCV shares will trade within this expected range on the day.