- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Address
- New York NY 10017 New York NY United States of America 10017
- IPO Date
- Jan 2, 1980
- Business
- Value Line Larger Companies Focused Fund (VALLX) is an open-end equity mutual fund that seeks long-term capital growth by investing substantially all of its assets in common stocks of larger, established U.S. companies with market capitalizations generally exceeding $10 billion, employing a proprietary quantitative research process including the Value Line Timeliness™ Ranking System alongside fundamental and quantitative analysis to select 25 to 50 growth-oriented holdings. The fund offers Investor Class shares (VALLX) with a net expense ratio of 1.14% and a minimum initial investment of $1,000, and Institutional Class shares (VLLIX) with a net expense ratio of 0.89% after waivers and a minimum initial investment of $100,000; its portfolio is heavily weighted toward equities (approximately 99.65%), with top sectors including technology (41%), communication services (19%), and consumer cyclical (16%), and leading holdings such as NVIDIA Corp, Meta Platforms Inc Class A, Uber Technologies Inc, Amazon.com Inc, and Netflix Inc. Benchmarks include the S&P 500 Index as the primary measure and the Russell 1000 Growth Index as secondary; the fund is classified in the Morningstar Large Growth category and is available to U.S. investors through brokerage firms, financial advisors, or directly.
Incepted on March 20, 1972, the fund is managed by EULAV Asset Management, the investment adviser to the Value Line Funds family, with a principal office at 1605 Main Street, Suite 912, Sarasota, FL 34236, and mailing address in New York, NY; portfolio management is led by Cindy Starke (since June 20, 2014) and Mitchell Appel (since May 1, 2024). Recent operational updates include the release of Q1 2025 Manager Q&A and portfolio commentary, updated fact sheets and holdings reports as of April 30, 2025 and March 31, 2025, and year-end 2024 distributions of $0.97195 per share in long-term capital gains paid on December 18, 2024. As of May 30, 2025, assets under management stand at approximately $336 million for VALLX, with the fund maintaining low turnover of 23% as of December 31, 2024, amid ongoing active management within the large-cap growth segment targeting institutional and retail investors seeking growth exposure.