NYSE American · BCV$A · preferred stock
Bancroft Fund Limited 5.375% Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares (BCV$A) stock price history
Every NYSE American trading session of Bancroft Fund Limited 5.375% Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares from Aug 5, 2016 to Oct 30, 2026: 2,173 daily bars, adjusted for splits and dividends, with minute bars arriving as capture begins. The full series is served by the API: a free key covers the last year, paid plans the whole history and minute bars.
BCV$A adjusted close, 2016 to 2026
- $22.46
- All time high, 2024
- $21.87
- 52 week high, $18.39 low
- 2,173
- Daily sessions since 2016
Last updated Oct 30, 2026, the last stored session. Refreshes after each trading day. Full 2016 to 2026 series and minute bars.
BCV$A key facts
- Bancroft Fund Limited 5.375% Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares (BCV$A) closed at $18.97 on Oct 30, 2026 on NYSE American.
- BCV$A's all time high close is $22.46, set on Oct 14, 2024; its all time low close is $15.58 on Dec 20, 2016.
- BCV$A's 52 week range is $18.39 to $21.87.
- BCV$A returned -11.5% over the year to Oct 30, 2026 and -6.5% over five years.
- Over ten years BCV$A returned +14%, +1.3% a year compounded.
- BCV$A's deepest drawdown was -17.2% from Oct 14, 2024 to Oct 21, 2026.
- DataCedar holds 2,173 daily sessions of BCV$A history from Aug 5, 2016, adjusted for splits and dividends, served by the API under a key.
BCV$A price chart, 2016 to 2026
BCV$A returns
Price return from the last close on or before the window start to Oct 30, 2026, on adjusted closes.
| Period | Return |
|---|---|
| 1 month | +0.1% |
| 3 months | -3.7% |
| 6 months | -9.7% |
| Year to date | -9.6% |
| 1 year | -11.5% |
| 3 years | +1.1% |
| 5 years | -6.5% |
| 10 years | +13.6% |
| Since Aug 5, 2016 | +18.2% |
| Compound annual growth, 10.2 years | +1.6% |
BCV$A records
Measured on the stored closes; every figure is reproducible from the API series.
- All time high close
- $22.46 on Oct 14, 2024
- All time low close
- $15.58 on Dec 20, 2016
- 52 week high
- $21.87 on Oct 30, 2025
- 52 week low
- $18.39 on Oct 22, 2026
- Deepest drawdown
- -17.2% from Oct 14, 2024 to Oct 21, 2026, not yet recovered
- Best single session
- +4.5% on Feb 17, 2023
- Worst single session
- -7.7% on Mar 18, 2020
- Volatility, 1 year annualised
- 14.3%
- Sessions closing higher, 1 year
- 45%
- Best calendar year
- 2019, +9%
- Worst calendar year
- 2022, -7%
BCV$A price history by year
Open is the first session's open, high and low span the year, close is the last session's close, and the return is close over the previous year's close. 2016 starts on Aug 5, 2016; 2026 runs to Oct 30, 2026.
| Year | Open | High | Low | Close | Return | Volume | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $20.99 | $21.77 | $18.39 | $18.97 | -11.1% | 328.8K | 164 |
| 2025 | $20.80 | $22.06 | $20.12 | $21.32 | +2.9% | 449.9K | 211 |
| 2024 | $20.23 | $22.54 | $19.42 | $20.71 | +2.1% | 599K | 228 |
| 2023 | $19.18 | $20.54 | $18.63 | $20.28 | +6.5% | 743.5K | 223 |
| 2022 | $20.52 | $20.65 | $18.60 | $19.05 | -7.0% | 707K | 219 |
| 2021 | $19.60 | $21.33 | $19.53 | $20.48 | +4.4% | 421.3K | 223 |
| 2020 | $19.12 | $19.87 | $15.76 | $19.60 | +3.3% | 611.8K | 220 |
| 2019 | $17.23 | $19.39 | $17.02 | $18.99 | +9.4% | 258.5K | 187 |
| 2018 | $17.07 | $17.83 | $16.52 | $17.36 | +1.7% | 264.7K | 194 |
| 2017 | $15.98 | $18.03 | $15.54 | $17.07 | +8.4% | 686.9K | 202 |
| 2016 | $16.05 | $17.01 | $15.05 | $15.75 | n/a | 2M | 102 |
BCV$A monthly closes, last 12 months
| Month | Month end close | Change |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | $18.97 | +0.1% |
| September 2026 | $18.94 | -3.8% |
| August 2026 | $19.70 | -1.4% |
| July 2026 | $19.98 | -2.4% |
| June 2026 | $20.46 | +0.4% |
| May 2026 | $20.38 | -2.9% |
| April 2026 | $20.99 | -0.2% |
| March 2026 | $21.04 | -2.3% |
| February 2026 | $21.53 | +0.5% |
| January 2026 | $21.43 | +0.5% |
| December 2025 | $21.32 | +0.1% |
| November 2025 | $21.30 | -2.2% |
About the BCV$A data
Daily bars. 2,173 sessions from Aug 5, 2016 to Oct 30, 2026, one row per NYSE American trading day with open, high, low, close and volume. Prices are adjusted for splits and cash dividends so the series is comparable across its whole length; the API also serves the raw, split only and dividend only views.
Minute bars. Not stored for this listing yet. Minute history is captured forward from the day collection begins for a symbol and is never backfilled.
Time and currency. Session dates are NYSE American trading days; minute timestamps are UTC. Prices are in USD. Volume is shares traded on the session.
Get the data. The REST endpoint returns the daily series as JSON with pagination; a free key serves the last year, Quant and above the full history back to Aug 5, 2016, and minute bars come with the paid windows. It takes timeframe (1Min, 5Min, 15Min, 1Hour, 1Day), adjustment, start and end. See the bars endpoint and authentication, and pricing for the plan windows.
curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/nyse-american%3ABCV%24A/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"Nearby on NYSE American
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