Premium to Net Asset Value
Categories: Metrics, Accounting
We're going to start this one out with a little bit of jargon-filled gobblety-gook.
The term "premium to net asset value" describes a circumstance when shares of a closed-end fund rise above the per-share amount of the fund's net asset value. In other words, the fund is getting a premium in the marketplace compared to the assets it actually holds.
First step in the breakdown: defining a closed-end fund. In a typical mutual fund, you purchase shares from the fund itself. It doesn't trade on an open market. A closed-end fund works differently. Shares of these funds get bought and sold on exchanges, much like stocks or other securities.
Meanwhile, net asset value refers to the total value of the fund's holdings (minus its liabilities). So...add up everything the fund holds, taking out whatever it owes, and then divide that total by the amount of shares outstanding. That calculation leaves you with the NAV per share.
Thoeretically, the price of the fund as represented on the exchange should be close to its net asset value per share. Usually, it trades at a discount. However, there are times when the fund's price rises beyond its NAV. That situation defines a premium to net asset value.
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finance a la shmoop what is net asset value or nav nav is how mutual fund
shares are valued or priced at the end of each trading day take a look at this
mutual fund right here it has fourteen hundred seventy shares of Google and [mutual funds document]
three hundred shares of Amazon and five hundred shares of IBM and while you get
the idea at the end of each day the ask prices in
the bid-ask spread ie the ask is the price at which somebody will sell these
shares are added up and yep totaled in this case there are a hundred fourteen
different names in the portfolio and seven million bucks in cash all of which
total eighty-two point three million dollars in value at the end of this day
well there are two million shares outstanding exactly at this moment so
the nav at today's close well it's eighty two point three million divided
by two million shares outstanding to get forty one dollars fifteen cents per
share that 4115 is the nav of the mutual fund and what happens when more
investors join by you know putting in cash well like let's say somebody
invests a million dollars at the end of today well then the fund goes from [money lining up in rows]
having seven million bucks in cash to having eight million bucks in cash and
that investor just bought 1 million / 4115 4 nav share self that mutual fund
company printed out of thin air an incremental twenty four thousand
three hundred one shares bringing its total the two million twenty four
thousand three hundred one the total value of the fund is now eighty three
point three million bucks up from yesterday's eighty two point three
million and the shares outstanding in the fund are now two million twenty four
thousand three hundred one and yeah the nav didn't change just the shares
outstanding and it's nav not not pronounced nav although it'd be kind of
a cool name for a mutual fund anything never like find where you're going nav [tiny red car on map]
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