The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust (GLU) Fair Value & Analysis

Financial Services · US · Market cap $113M

A solid business, screening 63% undervalued on our models.

What matters now

• The rarer combination: high quality (74/100) AND below fair value. That earns a closer look rather than a quick verdict.
• The price is below even our cautious bear case ($23.64). The market is more pessimistic than our downside scenario.
• For a financial, book-value and earnings-based methods matter more than a cash-flow DCF, which fits banks and insurers poorly.

Price vs Fair Value (5 years)

White line = price, green steps = our fair value per fiscal year, dashed = 300-day average. As of Jul 26, 2026.

How to read this chart

60‑month range $9.58 – $21.14 · fair‑value band $23.64 – $39.41 · the $19.32 price screens below the $31.52 fair value. Green steps = our fair value per fiscal year (point-in-time, no hindsight). Dashed = 300-day average. As of Jul 26, 2026.

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Analysis

The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust (GLU) currently trades at $19.32, while our model-based Fair Value estimate is $31.52, implying the stock looks roughly 63.1% undervalued today. The Quality Score stands at 74/100 (solid quality), in the Financial Services sector. Bull case: trading below our estimate, it may offer upside if the fundamentals hold. Bear case: a low price can be a value trap when quality is weak or the data is thin (evidence: high), always confirm before acting.

Trailing-twelve-month revenue stands at $4.0M. Revenue grew 21.9% year over year. It earns a return on equity of 24.0%. The stock trades on a trailing P/E of 3.8. Fundamentals as of Jul 26, 2026

Our scenario range runs from $23.64 (bear case) to $39.41 (bull case); at $19.32, the current price sits below that range. Bear and bull are the same models run on conservative and optimistic assumptions (margins, growth, valuation multiples), so a plausible valuation range, not a price target. The share trades about 9% below its 52-week high and 23% above its 52-week low, currently above its 200-day average. For context, the median of 10 Financial Services peers we cover trades at -12% fair-value upside, at 63%, GLU screens cheaper than that median.

Fair Value models

Each model estimates fair value its own way; the Fair Value above is the evidence-weighted blend. Evidence (0–100) measures how completely this model’s inputs are available: well-fed models carry more weight in the blend. The spread across models is intentional, each one stresses a different value driver; dividend models, for instance, come out structurally low when payout is small.

Widest divergence: Earnings-Based ($175.21) versus Growth DCF ($0.3100). Highest evidence: Growth DCF (80).

Key figures & financial health

Quality Score breakdown

About the company

The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by GAMCO Investors, Inc. It is managed by Gabelli Funds, LLC. The fund invests in public equity markets across the globe.

Full company description

The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by GAMCO Investors, Inc. It is managed by Gabelli Funds, LLC. The fund invests in public equity markets across the globe. It primarily invests in stocks of companies involved to a substantial extent in providing products, services, or equipment for the generation or distribution of electricity, gas, or water and infrastructure operations, and in equity securities including preferred securities of companies in other industries, in each case in such securities that are expected to pay periodic dividends. The fund also invests in income producing securities such as governments. It invests in stocks of companies across market capitalizations. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 500 Utilities Index, Lipper Utility Fund Average, and S&P 500 Index. The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust was formed on May 28, 2004 and is based in United States.

Company description, as reported by the company or data provider.

Revenue & earnings trend

FY2021 – FY2025 · reported fiscal years

The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust reported revenue of $8.9M in FY2025 versus $17.9M in FY2021, a compound −16.0%/yr. Reported net income was $30.0M in FY2025, compounding +14.8%/yr from FY2021.

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Peer Group

Asset Management · 972 stocks

How this stock ranks against its industry: the green marker is this stock, the band is the typical 25–75% peer range, and the tick is the median.

Valuation Multiples vs Asset Management median · lower = cheaper

Snowflake

Five quick dimensions, each 0 to 100: VALUE (fair-value potential), FUTURE (revenue growth), PAST (return on equity), HEALTH (low debt), DIVIDEND (yield). Green = this stock, grey = typical sector peer.

Values & ESG

Does this company touch areas you may want to avoid? The classification is inferred from sector and industry.

ESG scores are not available for this stock yet. Values and ESG data are contextual and can differ between providers.

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Frequently asked questions

How we calculate Fair Value

Each company is valued through a stack of independent intrinsic-value models (DCF variants, residual-income, multiples and more), blended into one family-balanced consensus and weighted by how much trustworthy data backs it. A separate quality layer scores the fundamentals. Every input is real reported data, nothing guessed.