15 important things you should know about Cambiar Funds CAMSX mutual fund

Updated: December 27, 2020

Bull Case

3-year return above the benchmark
15-year return above the benchmark
No sales load or distribution fees

Bear Case

Low net assets
5-year return below the benchmark
10-year return below the benchmark
High expense ratio

Before we start: if you’re looking for CAMSX “stock” price, you can quickly find it out by visiting Finny and typing "CAMSX quote". If you’re looking for a quick scoop on CAMSX "stock" (price chart, key stats, buy or sell analysis and holdings), go to Finny and look for "CAMSX". You’ll get all this info in one place.

Are you looking to buy or sell CAMSX? Or perhaps you’re looking for CAMSX fact sheet, and learn about its alternatives? If so, you came to the right place.

In this CAMSX mutual fund review, we’ll address key questions our readers have been asking us about this fund, above and beyond what you can find in its prospectus, and on Morningstar or Yahoo Finance.

Here is what you’ll be able to find in this review:

Fact Sheet: CAMSX performance, returns, expense ratio, holdings and dividend yield;
Analysis: CAMSX buy or sell; the pros and cons of investing in CAMSX mutual fund;
Alternatives: other ETFs and mutual funds you should consider as alternatives to CAMSX.

And here is the list of questions we’ll answer:

Describe Advisors' Inner Circle Fund: Cambiar Small Cap Fund; Investor Class Shares (CAMSX).
What are CAMSX holdings?
What is CAMSX performance? What are CAMSX historical returns?
How many up and down years did CAMSX have historically?
What is CAMSX dividend yield?
What is CAMSX minimum initial investment amount?
What is CAMSX expense ratio?
Does CAMSX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?
What is CAMSX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?
What is CAMSX beta? How would you assess CAMSX risk?
What is CAMSX Sharpe ratio?
What is CAMSX Finny Score? CAMSX buy or sell?
What are the pros of investing in CAMSX? What are CAMSX buy reasons?
What are the cons of investing in CAMSX? What are CAMSX sell reasons?

So let’s start. Scroll down to the question that interests you the most.

Fact Sheet

1. Describe Advisors' Inner Circle Fund: Cambiar Small Cap Fund; Investor Class Shares (CAMSX).

2. What are CAMSX top holdings?

CAMSX has 50 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.

The top 10 holdings represent 22.62% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:

Name	Symbol	% Assets
PGT Innovations Inc	PGTI	2.46%
Cardiovascular Systems Inc	CSII	2.37%
Diodes Inc	DIOD	2.34%
Perficient Inc	PRFT	2.25%
Sanderson Farms Inc	SAFM	2.22%
Reinsurance Group of America Inc	RGA	2.21%
Forward Air Corp	FWRD	2.20%
The Hain Celestial Group Inc	HAIN	2.20%
NV5 Global Inc	NVEE	2.19%
Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc	EPRT	2.18%

3. What is CAMSX performance? What are CAMSX historical returns?

CAMSX has generated the following returns:

1-month return is 6.81%;
3-month return is 23.07%;
1-year return is 8.09%;
3-year return is 6.85%;
5-year return is 8.54%;
10-year return is 7.44%;
15-year return is 7.58%.

4. How many up and down years did CAMSX have historically?

In the last 10 years, CAMSX had 6 up years and 4 down years.

5. What is CAMSX dividend yield?

CAMSX yield is 0.45%.

6. What is CAMSX minimum initial investment amount?

CAMSX minimum initial investment amount is N/A.

7. What is CAMSX expense ratio?

CAMSX expense ratio is 1.15%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.

8. Does CAMSX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?

CAMSX 12b-1 distribution fee is 0. CAMSX front-end sales load is 0. CAMSX back-end sales load is 0.

9. What is CAMSX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?

1-year ax cost ratio is 1.18%;
3-year ax cost ratio is 2.59%.

10. What is CAMSX beta? How would you assess CAMSX risk?

3-year beta is 1.18;
5-year beta is 1.22;
10-year beta is 1.26;
15-year beta is 1.20.

11. What is CAMSX Sharpe ratio?

3-year Sharpe ratio is 0.12;
5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.21;
10-year Sharpe ratio is 0.41;
15-year Sharpe ratio is 0.37.

Analysis

12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?

Finny Score is 43. Our quantitative analysis shows 3 reasons to buy and 4 reasons to sell it, resulting in the Finny Score of 43.

13. What are the pros of investing in CAMSX? What are CAMSX buy reasons?

The following are CAMSX strengths from our perspective:

CAMSX 3-year return is 6.85%, which is higher than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 2000 Value TR USD), 3%.
CAMSX 15-year return is 7.58%, which is higher than the 15-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 2000 Value TR USD), 6.75%.
Good news: this fund does not have 12b1, front-end or back-end sales fees.

14. What are the cons of investing in CAMSX? What are CAMSX negatives?

The following are CAMSX weaknesses from our perspective:

CAMSX net assets are $41.40 million. This fund is not a popular choice with retail investors.
CAMSX 5-year return is 8.54%, which is lower than the 5-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 2000 Value TR USD), 9.79%.
CAMSX 10-year return is 7.44%, which is lower than the 10-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 2000 Value TR USD), 8.71%.
CAMSX expense ratio is 1.15%, which is not negligible. Is the fund expensive to you, and does it align to your investment strategy?

In the CAMSX review, we covered CAMSX key stats (return, performance, yield, expense ratio, and holdings), buy and sell analysis, and alternative investments. If this review was helpful to you, feel free to check out other mutual fund and ETF reviews.