CET - Central Securities Corp
A closed-end fund run by Central Securities. Invests in shares. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Is anyone targeting this fund?
No - nobody has reported owning 5% or more of this fund.
Is the fund doing anything you need to act on?
Nothing right now.
What this means for you
No investor has reported owning 5% or more of this fund. That is the normal state for most closed-end funds.
Nothing is required of you. If that changes, the notice appears here within a day of being filed with the regulator.
What happened, and when
Nothing on file yet. No large investor has reported a stake in this fund, and the fund has not announced a buy-back, a vote or a closing.
About this fund
- Run by Central Securities. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
- Size: about $1.84 billion of holdings, as of June 30, 2026. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- Borrowing: the fund does not borrow. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- Costs: 0% a year in management fees; 0.5% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
- Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Dec 31, 2025) the fund paid $2.70 a share. $0.85 of that was income; $1.85 came from gains. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
- Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Dec 31, 2025): $60.50. The shares traded at $50.71, about 16.2% below that. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
- How the holdings did: up 6.3% over the last three months we have (April-June 2026), before the share price is taken into account. Over the last 12 months: +15.7%. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- How the holdings did over the fiscal year (ended Dec 31, 2025): the value of the holdings returned +17.5%. How the share price did: the shares returned +17% over the same year, counting payouts and the change in the market price. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
- First reported to the regulator in 1996.
What the fund holds
Mostly shares (95%), the rest cash and short-term holdings. About 96% issued in the U.S.
- The Plymouth Rock Company Incorporated class A shares - 22.2%
- Alphabet, Inc. class A shares - 7.8%
- Analog Devices, Inc. - 7.6%
- Progressive Corp. - 4.8%
- Cash and short-term - 4.7%
- Capital One Financial Corp. - 3.8%
- Keysight Technologies, Inc. - 3.8%
- Charles Schwab Corp. - 3.5%
- Amazon.com, Inc. - 3.4%
- Arthur J Gallagher & Co. - 3.2%
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- Motorola Solutions, Inc. - 3.2%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. class A shares - 2.8%
- American Express Co. - 2.6%
- Teledyne Technologies, Inc. - 2.5%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. - 2.5%
- Chevron Corp. - 2.3%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. - 2.1%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings, Inc. - 2%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. - 1.7%
- Microsoft Corp. - 1.6%
- Rayonier, Inc. - 1.5%
- Visa, Inc. class A shares - 1.4%
- Equifax, Inc. - 1.3%
- NIKE, Inc. class B shares - 1.1%
- Medtronic plc - 1.1%
As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
Details: all notices, events and fund facts
No notices from large investors on file.
No announcements from the fund on file.
- Run by
- Central Securities
- Fund family
- Central Securities
- Exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- Regulator's file number
- 811-00179
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Fiscal year end
- Dec 31, 2025
- Number of holdings
- 33
- Preferred share classes
- none
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