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#4599
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Market Dominance
Finance, Insurance, And Real Estate
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| Stock | Rating | Score▼ | Quality | Value | Momentum | P/E | EV/EBITDA | ROE | ROA | Gross Mgn | Op Mgn | Net Mgn | Rev Growth | Div Yield | D/E | Mkt Cap | AUDIT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
$SII SPROTT INC. | 75 | 91 | 87 | 98 | - | - | 15.7% | 12.8% | 48.9% | 37.0% | 28.8% | 14.9% | 2.5% | 0.0x | $1.1B | VS | |
$PUK PRUDENTIAL PLC | 73 | 88 | 97 | 80 | - | - | 13.2% | 1.4% | 100.0% | 97.0% | 23.8% | 11.8% | 2.7% | 5.0x | $21.5B | VS | |
$NMR NOMURA HOLDINGS INC | 72 | 81 | 92 | 87 | - | - | 9.9% | 0.6% | 84.5% | 70.0% | 7.3% | 14.9% | 0.0% | 923.0x | $18.3B | VS | |
$PSLV Sprott Physical Silver Trust | 69 | 82 | 80 | 98 | - | - | 17.3% | 17.7% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 1643.8% | 0.0% | 0.0x | $5.0B | VS | |
$UFCS UNITED FIRE GROUP INC | 68 | 81 | 93 | 76 | 5.0x | 3.5x | 13.2% | 4.1% | 99.9% | 14.7% | 11.1% | 9.2% | 2.1% | 16.0x | $775M | VS | |
$SLF SUN LIFE FINANCIAL INC | 68 | 83 | 95 | 63 | - | - | 12.6% | 0.9% | 32.0% | 31.3% | 7.9% | -12.9% | 4.3% | 24.0x | $37.8B | VS | |
$CBOE Cboe Global Markets, Inc. | 68 | 75 | 63 | 77 | 21.3x | 15.7x | 24.0% | 13.7% | 41.7% | 32.4% | 26.4% | 8.2% | 1.1% | 30.0x | $25.7B | VS | |
$PHYS Sprott Physical Gold Trust | 67 | 64 | 82 | 91 | - | - | 22.5% | 22.8% | 101.8% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 138.9% | 0.0% | 0.0x | $8.4B | VS | |
$VTMX Vesta Real Estate Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. | 67 | 69 | 77 | 80 | - | - | 8.8% | 5.8% | 98.7% | 75.7% | 88.5% | 17.6% | 4.3% | 34.0x | $2.2B | VS | |
$GLDM World Gold Trust | 66 | 54 | 85 | 92 | 11.3x | 11.3x | - | 27.1% | 100.0% | 98.9% | 459.9% | 333.4% | 0.0% | 0.0x | $43.7B | VS | |
$GDLC Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC | 29 | 19 | 25 | 21 | - | - | - | 25.3% | - | - | - | - | - | - | $0 | ||
| SECTOR BENCH | - | - | - | - | - | 11.9x | 7.8x | 8.9% | 1.2% | 76.5% | 17.0% | 21.5% | 10.8% | 1.9% | 0.5x | - | REF |
Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC (GDLC) receives a "Avoid" rating with a composite score of 28.8/100. It ranks #4599 out of 7,333 stocks in our coverage universe and carries a 1-star rating. Ratings are driven by a 6-factor quantitative model measuring quality, value, momentum, investment, stability, and short interest.
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Audit Verdict: Lower quality and stability scores may indicate governance concerns.
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Lagging peers — losers tend to keep underperforming
Expensive relative to fundamentals — limited margin of safety
Weak fundamentals — higher risk of value trap
High volatility — wider range of outcomes increases timing risk
Aggressive spending — empire-building risk, dilutive growth
Below-average composite — caution warranted
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Insufficient data for ROIC calculation
GM N/A vs sector 77%, OM N/A vs sector 17%
Capital turnover N/A
Rev growth N/A, 5yr history
Interest coverage N/A
Composite assessment of profitability, capital efficiency, and financial strength. Top-tier entities demonstrate sustainable cash flow generation and elite competitive moats.
Profit generated per dollar of shareholder equity
Efficiency of asset utilization
Pricing power and cost efficiency
Core business profitability
Bottom-line profitability
The Quality factor evaluates the persistence and magnitude of realized cash flows. Companies with scores >70 exhibit superior pricing power and structural financial resilience through diverse economic regimes.
Our uncertainty rating tracks the predictability of future cash flows and potential for permanent capital loss. Moderate visibility with standard industry cyclicality.
Our quantitative model flags Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC with an Avoid rating, assigning a composite score of 28.8/100 and 1 out of 5 stars. Ranked #4599 of 7,333 stocks, GDLC falls in the bottom tier across key factors. Historically, stocks with this profile have faced elevated risk of underperformance and capital loss.
Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC registers a weak quality score of just 19/100, indicating significant profitability challenges. Low quality scores are often associated with businesses in turnaround mode, early-stage growth, or structurally challenged industries.
GDLC registers a value score of just 25/100, suggesting the stock trades at a significant premium to its fundamental metrics. High-premium valuations like this require strong future execution to avoid multiple compression, and downside risk is elevated if growth disappoints.
Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC's investment score of 32/100 suggests limited reinvestment activity. Key growth metrics include a return on assets of 25.3% (sector: 1.2%). While this can be positive for mature, cash-generative businesses returning capital to shareholders, it may also signal a lack of growth opportunities or management conservatism.
Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC is experiencing notably weak momentum with a score of just 21/100. The stock has underperformed its peers and is trending below major moving averages. Revenue growth data is not currently available, while a beta of 2.53 reflects its sensitivity to broader market moves. While deep momentum weakness can occasionally present value opportunities, it often reflects deteriorating fundamentals or structural headwinds that may persist.
Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC registers a low stability score of 13/100, indicating high volatility and potentially stressed financial conditions. Key stability metrics include a beta of 2.53. Stocks at this level carry elevated capital loss risk and may be unsuitable for conservative portfolios without careful risk management.
GDLC's short interest factor score of 88/100 indicates very low short selling activity relative to peers — a positive signal suggesting institutional investors see limited near-term downside. Specific risk factors include high market sensitivity (beta: 2.53), micro-cap liquidity risk. As a micro-cap company with a market capitalization of $0, Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC benefits from the generally lower volatility and deeper liquidity associated with its size class.
Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC is a micro-cap company in the Finance, Insurance, And Real Estate sector, ranked #0 of 50 in its sector (100th percentile) and #4599 of 7,333 overall (37th percentile). This top-quartile standing reflects exceptional competitive strength relative to Finance, Insurance, And Real Estate peers.
While GDLC currently exhibits a AVOID profile, superior opportunities exist within the FINANCE, INSURANCE, AND REAL ESTATE sector. Our model identifies several "Strong Buy" candidates with higher quality scores and more attractive valuations among direct industry competitors.
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Improvement in Stability (13) would have the largest impact on the composite score.
AUDIT DATA AS OF DEC 31, 2025 (Q3 FY2025)
We rate Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC (GDLC) as Avoid with a composite score of 28.8/100 at a current price of $29.49. The stock falls in the bottom quintile of our universe across key quantitative factors, and the multi-factor weakness suggests a high probability of continued underperformance.
The rating is primarily driven by strength in investment (32th percentile) and value (25th percentile), which together account for the majority of the composite score. Offsetting weakness in stability (13th percentile) and quality (19th percentile) tempers our overall conviction. We assign a No Moat rating (17/100), High uncertainty, and Poor capital allocation.
Key items to watch: momentum to confirm whether the current price trend has legs; valuation compression risk if growth disappoints. Any material change in these dynamics could warrant a reassessment of our rating. The moat trend is stable, which suggests the competitive landscape is stable for now.
Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC holds a top-quartile position (#0 of 50) within the Finance, Insurance, And Real Estate sector, based on our composite quantitative scoring across quality, value, momentum, and stability factors. The composite score of 28.8/100 places it at rank #4599 in our full 7,333-stock universe. At N/A in market capitalization, Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC is a small-cap player in the Finance, Insurance, And Real Estate space, which limits certain scale advantages but may allow for more agile strategic execution.
Momentum indicators (21th percentile) suggest caution regarding the near-term price trend. Revenue growth data is unavailable, limiting our ability to confirm whether momentum is fundamentally supported.
Margin data is not available for Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC, which limits our assessment of the company's cost structure and operating efficiency. We rely on factor-based signals to infer business quality in the absence of detailed margin data.
At a current price of $29.49, Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC is trading at a premium to fundamental value. Our value factor score of 25/100 reflects a composite assessment across multiple valuation metrics including price-to-earnings, price-to-book, EV/EBITDA, and price-to-sales ratios relative to both sector peers and the broader market. The premium valuation implies the market is pricing in significant future growth or quality improvements that are not yet fully reflected in current fundamentals.
Valuation multiples are not available for this company, which limits our ability to assess relative pricing. We rely more heavily on factor-based valuation signals in such cases.
Return on assets of 25.3% indicates efficient deployment of the full asset base, not just equity capital.
The Avoid rating (composite 28.8/100) reflects multi-factor weakness, and historically, stocks in this scoring range have underperformed the market by a meaningful margin.
Weak momentum (21th percentile) suggests institutional selling pressure and unfavorable technical dynamics that may persist.
Below-average quality (19th percentile) raises durability concerns about the fundamental profile and increases the risk of negative earnings surprises.
High beta of 2.53 means amplified losses in market selloffs — in a broad market correction, this stock would likely decline more than the index.
Elevated short interest (88th percentile) indicates that sophisticated market participants are betting against the stock.
We assign a High uncertainty rating to Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC. Key risk factors include elevated market sensitivity (beta of 2.53), below-average price stability (13th percentile), weak quality scores (19th percentile). The wide range of potential outcomes widens our fair value estimate and increases the possibility of permanent capital impairment. Investors considering this name should size positions accordingly and demand a meaningful margin of safety before initiating.
Specific risk factors that inform our assessment include: elevated market sensitivity (beta of 2.53); below-average price stability (13th percentile); weak quality scores (19th percentile). Each of these factors independently widens the distribution of potential outcomes, and in combination they create a risk profile that demands careful position sizing. The stability factor at the 13th percentile and quality factor at the 19th percentile provide a quantitative summary of the overall risk landscape.
We identify limited risk mitigants at this time, which contributes to our high uncertainty assessment. Investors should monitor for improvement in balance sheet metrics, margin stability, and business predictability that could warrant a downgrade in our risk assessment over time.
We rate Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC's capital allocation as Poor. Key concerns include suboptimal returns on capital. Exemplary capital allocators generate ROE above 20% and maintain conservative leverage — Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC significantly underperforms these benchmarks, raising questions about management's ability to create shareholder value.
Investors should scrutinize management's reinvestment decisions and balance sheet trajectory before committing capital. Poor capital allocation often compounds over time: overlevered balance sheets limit strategic flexibility, while low returns on capital destroy shareholder value. We would need to see sustained improvement in profitability metrics and balance sheet discipline before considering an upgrade.
In summary, Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC receives a Avoid rating with a composite score of 28.8/100 (rank #4599 of 7,333). Our quantitative framework assigns a No Moat (17/100, trend: stable), High uncertainty, and Poor capital allocation. The average factor score across quality, value, momentum, stability, and investment is 22/100.
Our analysis does not support a constructive view on Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC at this time. The combination of limited competitive advantages, high uncertainty, and poor capital allocation suggests unfavorable risk-reward at current levels. We recommend investors avoid new positions and existing holders consider reducing exposure.
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We do not assign Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC a meaningful economic moat, scoring 17/100 on our composite assessment. Current fundamentals do not demonstrate the kind of durable competitive advantages — such as superior returns on invested capital, margin superiority, or reinvestment efficiency — that would protect the company from competitive erosion over the long term. The highest-scoring pillar, margin superiority, reached only 10/20.
The strongest moat sources are margin superiority (10/20) and economic value creation (5/20). GM N/A vs sector 77%, OM N/A vs sector 17%. Insufficient data for ROIC calculation. These pillars form the core of Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC's competitive identity and are the primary drivers of excess returns in our framework.
Areas of relative weakness include reinvestment efficiency (0/20) and growth durability (0/20). Capital turnover N/A. Improvement in these areas could meaningfully widen the moat over time, while deterioration would be an early warning of competitive erosion.
Our moat trend assessment is Stable. Multi-year ROIC and operating margin trajectories show neither meaningful improvement nor deterioration, suggesting the competitive position is steady. We expect Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC's moat profile to remain largely unchanged absent a material shift in return on capital or industry dynamics.
Key profit drivers are not clearly identifiable from current fundamentals. This may reflect a company in transition, a cyclical downturn, or structural challenges in the business model. We assign a quality factor of 19/100 which further underscores our concern regarding earnings sustainability.
Return metrics include ROA of 25.3%. Relative to the Finance, Insurance, And Real Estate sector, sector comparison data is limited.
Balance sheet data is limited, restricting our assessment of financial resilience. Investors should seek additional disclosure on leverage and liquidity before forming a complete view of financial health.
Above 50MA
37.18%
Net New Highs
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