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DRFAX

Davis Research Fund

Expense Ratio
0.68%
AUM
$88M
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The fund invests the majority of its assets in equity securities, primarily common stocks, of medium- and large-capitalization companies, defined as those with market capitalizations between $3 billion and $10 billion for medium-cap and at least $10 billion for large-cap. It employs the Davis Investment Discipline, focusing on extensive research to identify businesses with long-term value characteristics and purchasing their equity securities at discounts to intrinsic value. The investment strategy emphasizes individual stock selection and long-term holding, ideally for five years or longer.

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Fund Profile

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Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Equity
Region
Equity Size & Style
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
S&P 500 Index
Peer Group
US Large Value (434 peers)
Expense Ratio
0.68%
5Y Tax Drag
1.44%/yr
AUM
$88M
3Y Flow
+2.1%
Holdings (Reported)
71
Turnover
26%
Equity
85%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
84%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests the majority of its assets in equity securities, primarily common stocks, of medium- and large-capitalization companies, defined as those with market capitalizations between $3 billion and $10 billion for medium-cap and at least $10 billion for large-cap. It employs the Davis Investment Discipline, focusing on extensive research to identify businesses with long-term value characteristics and purchasing their equity securities at discounts to intrinsic value. The investment strategy emphasizes individual stock selection and long-term holding, ideally for five years or longer.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (9/25/2026). AUM as of 7/31/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Equity Size & Style Map

LargeMidSmall
26%
18%
25%
21%
4%
1%
2%
2%
1%
Large
ValueCoreGrowth
Size
Large
69%
Mid
27%
Small
5%
Style
Value
50%
Core
23%
Growth
27%
ⓘ Methodology

Equity size and style definitions. Size: each holding is scored against its own market's size curve — Large above $61.7B in the US and $21.4B elsewhere, Small below $10.8B worldwide — and a fund sits at the weighted average of its holdings. Style: each holding's Traditional Value score is ranked against stocks of the same region and size, and a fund sits at the weighted average of those ranks. Both are relative measures — where a holding stands among comparable stocks, not an absolute threshold. The dollar lines are recomputed from total market capitalisation each time the data is refreshed; the shares of the market they mark are what stay fixed. Cell shading and percentages: share of classified holdings weight per box. The grid and the dot are built from one set of per-holding scores — the dot is their weighted average — so they describe the same book at two levels of detail. The Size and Style bars are the grid's row and column totals. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Composite FactorsRef: Equity Funds

Intangible Value62.9
Traditional Value62.4
Small-Cap41.8
Quality42.9
Momentum16.9
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Ranked within the clean equity fund universe, one entry per fund series (lowest: 0, highest: 100; the middle of the range is denser than the ends). Blue dots mark the fund; the shaded band spans the Equity Funds class 25th–75th percentile of scores, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Factor DetailsRef: Equity Funds

Valuation
Book-to-Price (NTM)44.7
Sales-to-Price (NTM)54.5
Earnings-to-Price (NTM)6.0
Innovation/IP
R&D / Mkt Cap2.8
Patents / Mkt Cap0.99
Brand
Sales & Marketing / Mkt Cap3.6
Trademarks / Mkt Cap0.04
Human Capital
PhD Employees / Mkt Cap5.0
Top University Alumni / Mkt Cap13.4
Politics
Lobbying Spend / Mkt Cap16.8
AI
AI Employees / Mkt Cap2.3
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Equity Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. AUM as of 7/31/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Equity90.0%
Cash & Short-Term10.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. Cash & Short-Term includes 0.1% of net assets the filing does not itemise.

Country Exposure

Level
71.9%
70.1%
1.8%
1.0%
19.9%
6.9%
4.5%
2.0%
1.9%
1.8%
1.5%
Other1.5%
8.2%
3.6%
1.6%
1.5%
Other1.5%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Sector Exposure

Level
34.9%
26.1%
16.3%
6.1%
5.1%
4.3%
3.0%
2.5%
1.6%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the fund's classified holdings — every position we can identify, with cash and unidentified positions excluded — not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Thematic Exposure

AI Composition

Infrastructure25.7%
Early Adopter38.5%
Laggard35.8%

Magnificent 7

Magnificent 715.4%
Non-Magnificent 784.6%

Old vs New Economy

Old Economy49.9%
New Economy50.1%

Globalization

Multinational39.2%
Exporter10.9%
Importer20.9%
Domestic29.0%

China Exposure

China/HK Domiciled4.2%
Revenue & Operations5.6%
Operations Only12.3%
Revenue Only5.9%
No Material Exposure71.9%

Company Size

Mega (>$500B)26.5%
Large ($70–500B)37.6%
Mid ($10–70B)32.5%
Small ($1–10B)3.4%
Micro (<$1B)0.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the fund's classified equity book, renormalized so each split sums to 100% (the equity book is 85% of net assets) — they are not portfolio weights. China exposure: domiciled = incorporated in China or Hong Kong, falling back to the filing's country for holdings outside the stock model. Among the rest, revenue = ≥15% of revenue derived from China; operations = ≥3% of LinkedIn-tracked workforce in China, or ≥2 identified Chinese suppliers making up ≥12% of those identified. China revenue is estimated where segment reporting is absent. Company size bands by holding market cap: Mega >$500B, Large $70–500B, Mid $10–70B, Small $1–10B, Micro <$1B. Old vs New Economy partitions Sparkline's 48 industries: New = technology, internet platforms and entertainment, e-commerce, payments, pharma/biotech/medtech, and renewable energy; Old = everything else. Shares are of classified holdings and sum to 100%. China shares are of total equity weight. Size shares are of scored holdings weight. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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66 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1Amazon.comAMZN
7.87
Consumer DiscE-CommerceUSA
2MicrosoftMSFT
5.98
TechnologySoftwareUSA
3Stonex Repo-
5.08
--USA
4SAPSAP
4.95
TechnologySoftwareDEU
5Berkshire Hathaway Inc CL BBRK.B
3.90
FinancialsInsuranceUSA
6US BancorpUSB
3.85
FinancialsMultinational BanksUSA
7Markel GroupMKL
3.51
FinancialsInsuranceUSA
8Nomura Repo-
2.95
--USA
9Capital One FinancialCOF
2.69
FinancialsPayments & Cons FinUSA
10Fifth Third BancorpFITB
2.61
FinancialsNat'l & Regional BanksUSA
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Equity Funds

Total Holdings71
Effective Holdings34.6
Top 10 Weight43.4%
Max Position7.9%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)29%
Top Country (of Net Assets)78%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Equity Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Equity Funds

vs SPYBroad Benchmark
Active Share80.4%
vs IWDStyle Benchmark
Active Share82.7%
ⓘ Methodology

One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
DRFAX
Davis Research Fund
Peer Group
434 funds
Peer Region
3,133 funds
Peer Asset Class
5,640 funds
YTD Return
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1Y Return
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3Y Return (Ann.)
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5Y Return (Ann.)
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Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.68%0.70%530.75%550.74%54
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (1,132 share classes across 434 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity56
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Factor Match
FundPeer Group
1NYVTX
Davis New York Venture Fund
US Large Value
US Large Value
56---
2DUSA
Davis Select U.S. Equity ETF
US Large Value
US Large Value
55---
3QDVPAX
Davis Equity Portfolio
US Large Value
US Large Value
54---
4DWLD
Davis Select Worldwide ETF
Global Large Value
Global Large Value
52---
5SLASX
Selected American Shares
US Large Value
US Large Value
52---
6DFNL
Davis Select Financial ETF
Sector - Financials
Sector - Financials
44---
7RPFGX
Davis Financial Fund
Sector - Financials
Sector - Financials
44---
8QDFPAX
Davis Financial Portfolio
Sector - Financials
Sector - Financials
44---
9RPEAX
Davis Opportunity Fund
US Large Value
US Large Value
44---
10DGFAX
Davis Global Fund
Global Large Value
Global Large Value
44---

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Factor Similarity = 100 − a signature-weighted RMS gap across the composite factor scores (0–100 ranks within the clean equity fund universe), each axis weighted by how far this fund sits from the universe median of 50.