AFVZX
Applied Finance Select Fund
World Funds Trust
Expense ratio1
0.75%
Net assets2
$661.96M
Holdings2
52
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
13.34%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Aug. 28, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The investment objective of the Applied Finance Select Fund (the Select Fund) is long-term capital appreciation.

Strategy. The Select Fund invests primarily in the equity securities of U.S. companies whose market capitalizations are $3 billion or more, measured at the time of purchase. Equity securities in which the Select Fund may invest include common and preferred stocks, rights and warrants, and securities convertible into equity securities. The Select Fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including ETFs. In choosing investments, the Adviser employs a proprietary stock selection model that ranks stocks according to fundamental criteria that the Adviser believes are indicative of company strength and superior risk/return profile. These criteria may include intrinsic value, management quality, leverage and free cash flow, earnings quality, return on assets, return on equity and return on capital. … The Select Fund invests primarily in the equity securities of U.S. companies whose market capitalizations are $3 billion or more, measured at the time of purchase. Equity securities in which the Select Fund may invest include common and preferred stocks, rights and warrants, and securities convertible into equity securities. The Select Fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including ETFs. In choosing investments, the Adviser employs a proprietary stock selection model that ranks stocks according to fundamental criteria that the Adviser believes are indicative of company strength and superior risk/return profile. These criteria may include intrinsic value, management quality, leverage and free cash flow, earnings quality, return on assets, return on equity and return on capital. The Select Fund will normally invest across a majority of economic sectors, although it may at times focus its investments in certain sectors. The Select Fund will normally hold between 35 to 65 securities in its portfolio. The Adviser will typically sell a company from the Select Funds portfolio when indicated by the proprietary stock selection model described above or when the Adviser elects to take a temporary defensive position. From time to time, the Adviser may take temporary defensive positions, which are inconsistent with the Select Funds principal investment strategies, in attempting to respond to adverse market, economic, political, or other conditions. For example, the Select Fund may hold all or a portion of its assets in money market instruments, including cash, cash equivalents, U.S. government securities, other investment grade fixed income securities, certificates of deposit, bankers acceptances, commercial paper, money market funds and repurchase agreements. While the Select Fund is in a defensive position, the opportunity to achieve its investment objective will be limited.

Top holdings

As of April 30, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
ALPHABET INC CL A $25.78M 3.89%
APPLIED MATERIALS INC $25.21M 3.81%
KLA CORP $24.69M 3.73%
CISCO SYSTEMS INC $23.90M 3.61%
APPLE INC $23.60M 3.57%
MICROSOFT CORP $18.35M 2.77%
META PLATFORMS INC CL A $17.65M 2.67%
ORACLE CORP $17.54M 2.65%
HP INC $17.20M 2.60%
INTL BUS MACH CORP $17.02M 2.57%
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Allocation by sector

As of April 30, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Jan 31, 2026 → Apr 30, 2026
Opened
1
Exited
1
Increased
11
Decreased
28
Unchanged
12

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of April 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Applied Finance Advisors, LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of August 28, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of April 30, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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