NYSE American · ECF$A · preferred stock
Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund Ltd. 5.25% Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares (Liquidation Preference $25.00 per share) (ECF$A) stock price history
Every NYSE American trading session of Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund Ltd. 5.25% Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares (Liquidation Preference $25.00 per share) from Sep 18, 2017 to Oct 30, 2026: 1,920 daily bars, adjusted for splits and dividends, with minute bars arriving as capture begins. The full series is served by the API: a free key covers the last year, paid plans the whole history and minute bars.
ECF$A adjusted close, 2017 to 2026
- $21.78
- All time high, 2024
- $21.50
- 52 week high, $18.41 low
- 1,920
- Daily sessions since 2017
Last updated Oct 30, 2026, the last stored session. Refreshes after each trading day. Full 2017 to 2026 series and minute bars.
ECF$A key facts
- Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund Ltd. 5.25% Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares (Liquidation Preference $25.00 per share) (ECF$A) closed at $18.77 on Oct 30, 2026 on NYSE American.
- ECF$A's all time high close is $21.78, set on Oct 21, 2024; its all time low close is $15.57 on Feb 14, 2018.
- ECF$A's 52 week range is $18.41 to $21.50.
- ECF$A returned -10.1% over the year to Oct 30, 2026 and -8.5% over five years.
- Since Sep 18, 2017 ECF$A returned +14%, +1.5% a year compounded.
- ECF$A's deepest drawdown was -16.0% from Sep 16, 2020 to Oct 24, 2022.
- DataCedar holds 1,920 daily sessions of ECF$A history from Sep 18, 2017, adjusted for splits and dividends, served by the API under a key.
ECF$A price chart, 2017 to 2026
ECF$A returns
Price return from the last close on or before the window start to Oct 30, 2026, on adjusted closes.
| Period | Return |
|---|---|
| 1 month | +0.1% |
| 3 months | -9.6% |
| 6 months | -11.2% |
| Year to date | -9.5% |
| 1 year | -10.1% |
| 3 years | -0.4% |
| 5 years | -8.5% |
| 10 years | n/a |
| Since Sep 18, 2017 | +14.2% |
| Compound annual growth, 9.1 years | +1.5% |
ECF$A records
Measured on the stored closes; every figure is reproducible from the API series.
- All time high close
- $21.78 on Oct 21, 2024
- All time low close
- $15.57 on Feb 14, 2018
- 52 week high
- $21.50 on Jul 22, 2026
- 52 week low
- $18.41 on Oct 21, 2026
- Deepest drawdown
- -16.0% from Sep 16, 2020 to Oct 24, 2022, recovered Sep 9, 2024
- Best single session
- +7.2% on Mar 25, 2020
- Worst single session
- -9.6% on Mar 18, 2020
- Volatility, 1 year annualised
- 14.3%
- Sessions closing higher, 1 year
- 47%
- Best calendar year
- 2019, +18%
- Worst calendar year
- 2022, -10%
ECF$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. 2017 starts on Sep 18, 2017; 2026 runs to Oct 30, 2026.
| Year | Open | High | Low | Close | Return | Volume | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $20.68 | $21.50 | $18.41 | $18.77 | -9.2% | 369.1K | 177 |
| 2025 | $20.41 | $21.26 | $18.72 | $20.68 | +2.5% | 362.4K | 198 |
| 2024 | $19.69 | $21.91 | $18.91 | $20.17 | +2.9% | 669.9K | 220 |
| 2023 | $18.16 | $19.94 | $18.16 | $19.60 | +7.6% | 757.6K | 224 |
| 2022 | $20.33 | $20.33 | $17.43 | $18.20 | -10.3% | 470.3K | 215 |
| 2021 | $19.95 | $20.70 | $19.77 | $20.30 | +1.8% | 203K | 158 |
| 2020 | $18.90 | $20.76 | $15.62 | $19.94 | +6.0% | 632.3K | 214 |
| 2019 | $15.96 | $19.06 | $15.96 | $18.82 | +18.1% | 451.9K | 215 |
| 2018 | $16.52 | $17.26 | $14.91 | $15.94 | -3.7% | 950K | 226 |
| 2017 | $16.36 | $16.76 | $16.16 | $16.55 | n/a | 1.3M | 73 |
ECF$A monthly closes, last 12 months
| Month | Month end close | Change |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | $18.77 | +0.1% |
| September 2026 | $18.76 | -6.3% |
| August 2026 | $20.02 | -5.3% |
| July 2026 | $21.13 | +1.8% |
| June 2026 | $20.76 | +2.4% |
| May 2026 | $20.27 | -4.1% |
| April 2026 | $21.15 | +0.1% |
| March 2026 | $21.12 | -0.2% |
| February 2026 | $21.16 | +0.9% |
| January 2026 | $20.96 | +1.4% |
| December 2025 | $20.68 | -1.0% |
| November 2025 | $20.89 | -0.4% |
About the ECF$A data
Daily bars. 1,920 sessions from Sep 18, 2017 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 Sep 18, 2017, 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%3AECF%24A/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
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