Cornerstone Total Return Fund Anchors My Income Compounder Portfolio

Cornerstone Total Return Fund is downgraded to Hold due to its current 23% premium and potential upcoming rights offering. CRF offers a high 17.6% yield via a managed distribution policy, with significant benefits for investors using the DRIP discount program. Holding CRF in tax-advantaged accounts allows investors to maximize DRIP gains and manage capital gains efficiently around rights offerings.

Seeking Alpha • Dec 1, 2025

Cornerstone Funds Announce Continuing Monthly Distributions and Reset Distribution Amounts for 2026

NEW YORK, Nov. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund, Inc. (NYSE American: CLM) (CUSIP: 21924B302) and Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc. (NYSE American: CRF) (CUSIP: 21924U300), (individually the “Fund” or, collectively, the “Funds”), each a closed-end management investment company, announced that in keeping with each Fund's previously adopted monthly distribution policy, each Fund is declaring the following distributions, which have been reset for the calendar year 2026.

GlobeNewsWire • Nov 7, 2025

CRF: Accumulating Shares Around The Premium Thresholds

Cornerstone Total Return Fund (CRF) offers a unique DRIP at NAV feature, enabling efficient compounding for income-focused investors. CRF's 17.5% yield and monthly payouts are best maximized by reinvesting distributions at NAV, especially when the premium to NAV is below 20%. Active management is recommended: accumulate CRF below a 20% premium, sell before rights offerings, and re-enter post-offering to avoid dilution.

Seeking Alpha • Sep 17, 2025

Cornerstone Funds Announce Continuing Monthly Distributions for 2025 and Distribution Percentage for 2026

NEW YORK, Aug. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund, Inc. (NYSE American: CLM) (CUSIP: 21924B302) and Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc. (NYSE American: CRF) (CUSIP: 21924U300), (individually the “Fund” or, collectively, the “Funds”), each a closed-end management investment company, announced that in keeping with each Fund's previously adopted monthly distribution policy, each Fund is declaring the following distributions:

GlobeNewsWire • Aug 4, 2025

Closed-End Funds: Screening For Potential Opportunities To Kick Off H2 2025

We closed out the first half of 2025, making it an appropriate time to give the overall CEF space a fresh look for potential opportunities. As the broader equity indexes have been performing quite well, discounts in the CEF space have narrowed overall. The best relative value more broadly is in the municipal bond space and the "hybrid" funds.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 14, 2025

Cornerstone Total Return Fund: CEF With High Monthly Distributions

I rate CRF a Hold for income-focused investors, given its high yield but declining share price and dividend over time. The fund trades at a significant premium to NAV, but the DRIP allows reinvested dividends to be purchased at NAV, offering a discount advantage. CRF underperforms the S&P 500 in total return, and its distributions are largely return of capital, risking long-term capital erosion.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 4, 2025

CRF: Steady Compounding, Modest Upside

Cornerstone Total Return Fund offers a diversified, large-cap equity portfolio with a simple, long-term investment approach and minimal portfolio turnover. The fund's high 18% yield is driven by regular distributions from net assets, not portfolio returns, causing a gradual share price decline over time. Dividend reinvestment at NAV or market price enables compounding, often resulting in total returns that outperform the S&P 500.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 2, 2025

Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc. Announces Completion Of Rights Offering

NEW YORK, May 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) (NYSE American: CRF) (CUSIP: 21924U300) is pleased to announce the completion of its one-for-three rights offering which expired on Friday, May 16, 2025 (the “Offering”). Under the terms of the Offering, record date stockholders were entitled to purchase one newly issued share of common stock of the Fund for every three rights held. The subscription price for each newly issued share was determined to be $6.97 which, under the terms of the prospectus, was equal to the greater of (i) 112% of net asset value per share as calculated at the close of trading on the date of expiration of the Offering and (ii) 80% of the market price per share at such time.

GlobeNewsWire • May 19, 2025

Cornerstone CEF Rights Offerings Are Back

Cornerstone Strategic Investment Fund and Cornerstone Total Return Fund announce 1-for-3 rights offerings, allowing shareholders to subscribe for new shares at a premium to NAV. The rights offerings are accretive to NAV per share, benefiting existing shareholders, but market prices typically drop during the offering period due to increased selling pressure. Investors can either sell shares before the ex-rights date to avoid price drops, or participate in the offering if the premium to NAV is above 12%.

Seeking Alpha • Apr 23, 2025

Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc. Announces Rights Offering

NEW YORK, April 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc. (NYSE American: CRF) (CUSIP: 21924U300) (the “Fund”) announced today that, contingent upon final approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), it has set the close of business on April 21, 2025 as the record date (the “Record Date”) for determination of stockholders entitled to participate in the Fund's 1-for-3 rights offering.  The Fund is issuing to its stockholders non-transferable rights entitling the holders to subscribe for an aggregate of 39,475,678 shares of common stock. Each stockholder will receive one non-transferable right for each share of the Fund held as of the Record Date. Fractional shares will not be issued upon the exercise of the rights. Accordingly, the number of rights to be issued to a stockholder on the Record Date will be rounded up to the nearest whole number of rights evenly divisible by three. For every three rights a stockholder receives, he or she will be entitled (but not required) to purchase one new share of the Fund at a subscription price equal to the greater of (i) 112% of net asset value per share as calculated at the close of trading on the expiration date of the offering or (ii) 80% of the market price per share at such time.  Fractional shares will not be issued.  In addition to the shares offered in the primary subscription, the Fund may offer a 100% over-allotment to oversubscribing stockholders.  Stockholders who fully subscribe in the primary offering will have the option to oversubscribe for additional shares, to the extent available.

GlobeNewsWire • Apr 10, 2025