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Associated Capital Group, Inc.

ACGP · Other · FY2024 filings · No moat ·

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The five investor questions

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2020–2024 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $19M to $13.2M, decreasing; diluted EPS 0.84 to 2.08, increasing.

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Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power.

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Median ROIC -2.2%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.

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Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage -70x.

50

Owner earnings changed trend unclear over up to the ten most recent annual observations.

The pricingPower component abstained: Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.

Price vs. value if growth stopped today

A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.

Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
No price data
$37.5M
Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
$33.50
No price data

This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.

Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 239% above the zero-growth estimate across 48 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.

Score records captured Jul 26, 2026.

Exactly which 50 companies?

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Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF, BKNG.

Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.

12 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $21M (FY2014) to $13.2M (FY2024) — about −4.6% a year compounded over 10 years.

It earned −2.7% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2024. Across the full 11-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was −2.3%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was −2.2%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 0/100.

ACGP's latest filed year, FY2024, doesn't disclose total debt in a form the methodology can use, so current leverage is treated as unmeasured — never assumed to be zero.

This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.

FY2013–FY2024 · 12 fiscal years, normalized from ACGP’s SEC filings

Sales, as filed$13.2M FY2024
$0$20M2013201720212024
Revenue kept after cost of goods

Not disclosed in ACGP’s filings for these years — we don’t estimate it.

Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICROIC −2.7% FY2024
−2%0%2013201720212024
Cash an owner could take out$44.3M FY2024
−$50M$0$50M2013201720212024

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in ACGP’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.

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How Associated Capital Group, Inc. makes its money

Associated Capital Group, Inc.'s filing does not supply enough comparable lines for a truthful flow chart — here's what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of revenueSource
$13.2M100%
−$18.8M−142%
Income before tax$52.7M400%
Income tax$8.3M63%
$44.3M336%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

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What Associated Capital Group, Inc. owns — and owes

Associated Capital Group, Inc.'s filing tags don't support a full breakdown — here's what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of assetsSource
Total assets$935M100%
Cash and equivalents$300M32%
Stockholders’ equity$893M95%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

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What drives Associated Capital Group, Inc.’s return on equity?

ROE is five filed business factors multiplied together.

DuPont return on equity factor treeReturn on equity branches into tax burden, interest burden, operating margin, asset turnover, and the equity multiplier.Return on equity5%Tax burden84%net income ÷ pretax incomeInterest burden−281%pretax ÷ operating incomeOperating margin−142%operating income ÷ revenueAsset turnover0.01×revenue ÷ average assetsEquity multiplier1.04×average assets ÷ average equityAs of 2024-12-31 · 2 SEC filing sourcesBuy Like Buffett · buylikebuffett.com
DuPont source inputs
InputValueFiscal yearSource
$44.3MFY2024
Income before tax$52.7MFY2024
Operating income−$18.8MFY2024
$13.2MFY2024
Ending assets$935MFY2024
Beginning assets$944MFY2023
$893MFY2024
$907MFY2023
Source:
  • SEC filingFiling detailsAccession 0001437749-24-008882
  • SEC filingFiling detailsAccession 0001437749-25-008454
· event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set
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Where Associated Capital Group, Inc.'s cash went

Associated Capital Group, Inc.’s filing does not supply enough provenance-matched cash-flow lines for a truthful flow chart — here’s what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of cash from operationsSource
Cash from operations$26.9M100%
Depreciation and amortization$3610001%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

Curated 19-manager tier

Who reported holding Associated Capital Group, Inc.

Delayed public 13F reports for 2026-Q1—not live positions, trades, or recommendations.

0 holding0 exited0 not holding0/19 resolved19 unavailable

Named manager positions and quarter-over-quarter changes
ManagerReported positionQuarter-over-quarterFiling accession
Abrams CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Akre CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Baupost GroupUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Berkshire HathawayUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Brave Warrior AdvisorsUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Dodge & CoxUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
First EagleUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
FundsmithUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Gardner Russo & QuinnUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Gates Foundation TrustUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Mairs & PowerUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Markel / Markel-GaynerUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Oakmark / Harris AssociatesUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Pershing SquareUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Polen CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Sequoia / Ruane CunniffUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Southeastern Asset ManagementUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Tweedy, BrowneUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Yacktman Asset ManagementUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable

Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.

Source: Filing source unavailable · event Mar 31, 2026 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026

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What Associated Capital Group, Inc. insiders reported

The complete Form 4 source snapshot retrieved on Aug 14, 2026 contains no transaction rows.

Verified empty: the retrieved source snapshot contains no transaction event.

Source snapshot retrieved 2026-08-14T07:00:02.358Z · SEC Form 4

Moat Score history

15 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten

Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale33.1 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 20, 2026Jul 26, 2026

Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.

Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars

  1. Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)moat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
  2. Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0moat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
  3. Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0moat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026

Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.

Insider activity

Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”

These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.

This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.

No reported Form 4 transactions were found in the complete checked issuer window for ACGP, –. The totals and cluster result below are arithmetic over that certified window.

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P purchases minus S sales only, Aug 14, 2025–Aug 14, 2026.
0 P / 0 S
Only P and S are included; awards, gifts, exercises, withholding, and other mechanics are excluded.
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Requires at least 3 distinct insiders with P purchases.

Transaction-code histogram

Supporting event counts for the same certified window, Aug 14, 2025–Aug 14, 2026.

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Track record

How Associated Capital Group, Inc.’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.

Point-in-time scores 2015–2025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight

Point-in-time Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year

How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored ACGP on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.

0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatPoint-in-time Moat Score97159Indexed price · log scale (2016 = 100)2015201720192021202320252026

Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.

What followed, in the years it rated Wide

In the reconstructed history shown, ACGP did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.

Other context

#41 of 45 scored Other companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

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  2. #40MIAX Miami International Holdings, Inc.38.1No moat
  3. #42GROW U S GLOBAL INVESTORS INC32.1No moat
  4. #43ILLR Triller Group Inc.29.1No moat

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Common questions about ACGP

Does Associated Capital Group, Inc. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2024 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores Associated Capital Group, Inc. (ACGP) 33.1 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 55, pricing power not measurable from the filings, returns on capital 0, balance-sheet safety 28, capital allocation 50.
How has ACGP's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 15 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 33.1 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.

Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell ACGP. See the disclaimer.