CUSTX — Cullen Small Cap Value Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-11
CUSTX — Cullen Small Cap Value Fund. United States Small Cap Value Equity · $9.85M AUM · 1.50% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
CUSTX Fund Overview
CUSTX — Cullen Small Cap Value Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Cullen Funds Trust, categorised as United States Small Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Cullen Funds Trust
- Category: United States Small Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $9.85M
- Ticker: CUSTX
- SEC CIK: 0001109957
- SEC series ID: S000026472
- Share class ID: C000079423
CUSTX Investment Objective and Strategy
Cullen Small Cap Value Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Cullen Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Cullen Small Cap Value Fund (the Small Cap Value Fund or the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Small Cap Value Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in small-capitalization companies, which the Fund defines as those companies with market capitalizations below $5 billion at the time of original purchase. The Adviser generally selects stocks of companies that have the following characteristics: a below average price/earnings ratio as compared with the average price/earnings ratio of the equity securities in the Russell 2500 Value Stock Index; above average projected earnings growth as compared to the average projected earnings growth of the equity securities in the Russell 2500 Value Stock Index. The Small Cap Value Fund generally invests substantially all of its assets in common stocks and other equity securities, which can include convertible debt, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that invest primarily in equity securities, depositary receipts, warrants, rights, equity interests in real estate investment trusts (REITs), master limited partnerships (MLPs), and preferred stocks.
The Small Cap Value Fund invests roughly similar amounts of its assets in each security in the portfolio at the time of original purchase, although the portfolio is not systematically rebalanced. This approach avoids the overweighting of any individual security being purchased. The Adviser may sell portfolio stocks when they are no longer attractive based on their price or earnings growth potential. The Small Cap Value Fund may invest up to 30% of its assets in securities of companies headquartered outside the United States. These investments will be made in securities traded on an exchanges outside the United States and/or American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), which are depositary receipts for foreign securities denominated in U.S. dollars and traded on U.S. securities markets or available through a U.S.
broker or dealer. ADRs may be purchased through sponsored or unsponsored facilities. A sponsored facility is established jointly by the issuer of the underlying security and a depositary, whereas a depositary may establish an unsponsored facility without participation by the issuer of the depositary security. Holders of unsponsored depositary receipts generally bear all the costs of such facilities and the depositary of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited security or to pass through voting rights to the holders of such receipts. The Small Cap Value Fund intends to diversify its investments in securities of companies headquartered outside the United States across different countries, and the percentage of the Small Cap Value Funds assets invested in particular countries or regions will change from time to time based on the Advisers judgment, subject to other restrictions described herein.
The Small Cap Value Fund intends to invest in the securities of companies located in developed countries and, to a lesser extent, those located in emerging markets. The Fund may consider investments in companies in any of the worlds developed or emerging stock markets. As part of its strategy, the Small Cap Value Fund, in order to generate additional income, will selectively write covered call options when it is deemed to be in the Funds best interest. A call option is a short-term contract entitling the purchaser, in return for a premium paid, the right to buy the underlying equity security at a specified price upon exercise of the option at any time prior to its expiration. Writing a covered call option allows the Small Cap Value Fund to receive a premium. A call option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy the underlying equity stock from the writer of the option at a given price during a specific period.
The Small Cap Value Fund will not engage in derivatives except to the extent that the writing of covered call options is deemed to involve derivatives.
CUSTX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Cullen Small Cap Value Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. | 8.67% |
| Masterbrand, Inc. | 5.29% |
| M/i Homes, Inc. | 5.24% |
| Quaker Chemical Corp. | 4.98% |
| Avient Corp. | 4.75% |
| Barrett Business Services, Inc. | 4.72% |
| Douglas Elliman, Inc. | 4.43% |
| Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. | 3.99% |
| Pennymac Financial Services, Inc. | 3.47% |
| First Horizon Corp. | 3.44% |
CUSTX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Cullen Small Cap Value Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.8% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.4% |
CUSTX Performance
Total returns for CUSTX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 11.2% |
| 1 year | 19.2% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 7.8% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 4.1% |
CUSTX Risk Information
Risk metrics for CUSTX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 18.6%
CUSTX Costs and Fees
CUSTX costs about $150 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.50%
- Gross expense ratio: 4.88%
- Portfolio turnover: 38%
- Brokerage commissions: 15.10 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
CUSTX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Cullen Small Cap Value Fund had net outflows of $1.13M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$2.48K |
| 2026-05 | −$30.03K |
| 2026-04 | −$261.52K |
| 2026-03 | −$245.38K |
| 2026-02 | −$61.35K |
| 2026-01 | −$56.48K |
CUSTX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Cullen Small Cap Value Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
CUSTX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Cullen Small Cap Value Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-10-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-10-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-10-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-09-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-09-04
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.