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CRF Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc.

New York Stock Exchange Arca · Asset Management · Financial Services

$7.04
-0.13 (-1.81%)

Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc., a closed-end equity mutual fund, operates under the management of Cornerstone Advisors, Inc. Its investment strategy focuses on the public equity markets within the United States, seeking to acquire shares in companies across a diverse array of sectors. The fund primarily allocates its capital to both value and growth-oriented stocks, irrespective of their mark…

Price (90d)

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Signal Score (90d)

107
107
Aug 16Aug 16

Quote

Day Range
$7.03 – $7.09
52-Week Range
$6.56 – $8.25
Volume
$1.23M
Market Cap
$833.73M
50-Day Avg
$7.13
200-Day Avg
$7.45
Prev Close
$7.17
Open
$7.06

Valuation & Ratios

P/E Ratio
7.85
EPS
$1.02
P/B Ratio
1.22
P/S Ratio
13.23
Debt/Equity
0.00
Current Ratio
0.00
Dividend Yield
+17.5%
Gross Margin
+89.9%

Returns & Efficiency

Return on Equity
+15.5%
Return on Assets
+15.5%
FCF Yield
+0.0%
EV/EBITDA
7.85

Revenue & Net Income (Annual)

Fiscal YearRevenueNet IncomeEPS
2025$96.41M$162.40M$1.02
2024$70.14M$162.41M$1.45
2023$175.61M$174.58M$1.67
2022$-120.30M$-121.23M$-1.98
2021$105.86M$105.08M$1.73

Social Signal Score

57
5d
57
1 mentions
30d
57
1 mentions
60d
57
1 mentions
90d
57
1 mentions
news: 1

Insider trading

Open-market buys and sells by CRF officers and directors.

Bought
$449k

16 trades

Sold
$984k

11 trades

  • Morris Matthewsold
    director·1.197 @ $7.92·$9·Sep 10, 2025·filing
  • Morris Matthewsold
    director·35,000 @ $7.90·$277k·Sep 4, 2025·filing
  • Morris Matthewsold
    director·18,272 @ $7.87·$144k·Sep 3, 2025·filing
  • Morris Matthewsold
    director·40,000 @ $8.43·$337k·Aug 8, 2023·filing
  • Morris Matthewsold
    director·13,000 @ $12.68·$165k·Sep 17, 2021·filing
  • Wilcox Glenn W Srbought
    director·2,674 @ $12.25·$33k·Feb 23, 2021·filing
  • Wilcox Glenn W Srsold
    director·241 @ $11.45·$3k·Dec 11, 2020·filing
  • Morris Matthewbought
    director·30,900 @ $8.08·$250k·Mar 27, 2020·filing

30 further Form 4 entries are share awards, option exercises or shares withheld for tax. Those are compensation, not trades, so they are excluded above. Buying is the stronger signal: an insider spends their own money for one reason. Selling has many innocent explanations — tax, diversifying, a house — so it says far less than it appears to. Via SEC filings.

Valuation

Project earnings forward and see what return today's price implies.

Seeded from CRF's reported EPS growth of -12.4% a year over 4 years.

EPS in 5 years
$0.53
Implied price
$4.21
Return from $7.04
-9.8% a year

To earn 15.0% a year on these assumptions you'd need to buy at $2.09 -70.3% below today's price.

How sensitive is that answer?

Annual return across nearby assumptions. If the result is only attractive in one corner, that is the finding.

growth \ P/E4681012
-22.4%-30.4%-24.5%-20.1%-16.4%-13.3%
-17.4%-25.9%-19.7%-14.9%-11.0%-7.7%
-12.4%-21.5%-14.8%-9.8%-5.7%-2.2%
-7.4%-17.0%-10.0%-4.6%-0.3%3.4%
-2.4%-12.5%-5.1%0.5%5.1%9.0%

This is arithmetic on assumptions you chose, not a forecast or a recommendation. It ignores dividends, buybacks, share issuance and debt, and it assumes a company still earning money in 5 years. Change any input and the answer changes a lot — that sensitivity is the honest result, not a flaw in the model.

Mentions (1)

  • Newsseekingalpha.com·5h ago·Neutral

    … Total Return Fund and Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund present unique total return opportunities for income-focused investors, especially via DRIP at NAV. Both CRF and CLM have announced an upcoming rights offering (RO), allowing shareholders to buy new shares at a 4% premium to NAV, likely reducing current premiums. Share dilution from the RO may temporarily depress market prices, but history suggests premiums and prices often recover post-offering as new capital is deployed.

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