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Neuberger Intrinsic Value Fund | Class A Shares (NINAX), Class C Shares (NINCX), Institutional Class Shares (NINLX)
GOAL
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses
These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold or sell shares of the Fund. Under the Fund’s policies, you may qualify for initial sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Neuberger funds. Certain financial intermediaries have sales charges and/or policies and procedures regarding sales charge waivers applicable to their customers that differ from those described below. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial intermediary, in “Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers” on page 213 in the Fund’s prospectus, and in Appendix A to the Fund’s prospectus. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
 
Class A
Class C
Institutional Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Maximum initial sales charge on purchases (as a % of offering price)
5.75
None
None
Maximum contingent deferred sales charge (as a % of the lower of original purchase price or current market
value)1
None
1.00
None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your
investment)
Management fees
1.02
1.02
0.91
Distribution and/or shareholder service (12b-1) fees
0.25
1.00
None
Other expenses
0.06
0.05
0.05
Total annual operating expenses
1.33
2.07
0.96
1
For Class A shares, a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of 1.00% applies on certain redemptions made within 18 months following purchases of $1 million or more made without an initial sales charge. For Class C shares, the CDSC is eliminated one year after purchase.
Expense Example
The expense example can help you compare costs among mutual funds. The example assumes that you invested $10,000 for the periods shown, that you redeemed all of your shares at the end of those periods, that the Fund earned a hypothetical 5% total return each year, and that the Fund’s expenses were those in the table. For Class A and Institutional Class shares, your costs would be the same whether you sold your shares or continued to hold them at the end of each period. Actual performance and expenses may be higher or lower.
assuming redemption
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$703
$972
$1,262
$2,084
Class C (assuming redemption)
$310
$649
$1,114
$2,400
Class C (assuming no redemption)
$210
$649
$1,114
$2,400
Institutional Class
$98
$306
$531
$1,178
assuming no redemption
 
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$703
$972
$1,262
$2,084
Class C (assuming redemption)
$310
$649
$1,114
$2,400
Class C (assuming no redemption)
$210
$649
$1,114
$2,400
Institutional Class
$98
$306
$531
$1,178
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 12% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
To pursue its goal, the Fund invests mainly in common stocks of small- and mid-capitalization companies, which it defines as those companies with a total market value between $50 million and $10 billion at the time the Fund first invests in them. The Fund may continue to hold or add to a position in a stock after the company’s market value has increased above or decreased below this range.
The Fund’s strategy consists of using a bottom-up, research driven approach to identify stocks of companies that are available at market prices below the Portfolio Managers’ estimate of their intrinsic value and that the Portfolio Managers believe have the potential for appreciation in value over time. The Portfolio Managers’ estimate of a company’s intrinsic value represents their view of the company’s true, long-term economic value, the market’s view of which may be currently distorted by market inefficiencies. The intrinsic value estimate represents what the Portfolio Managers believe a company could be worth if it is acquired, if its profitability returns to its long-term average level, or if its valuation moves in line with those companies that the Portfolio Managers see as its publicly traded peers.
The Portfolio Managers believe that while markets are often efficient, certain investment opportunities tend to be mispriced due to market inefficiencies. For example, market inefficiencies may exist at times in the small capitalization segment of the market due to a lack of widely available research on these companies. The Portfolio Managers attempt to exploit these market inefficiencies and look for opportunities to invest in companies they believe to be undervalued, such as companies with the following characteristics:
Complex Companies: These companies typically have multiple lines of business that are in different industries or sectors and/or that have different growth rates and profitability characteristics.
Cyclical Companies: These companies typically have ebbs and flows in their business depending on demand patterns for their products, the length of product cycles, or other transient factors.
Companies in a Period of Interrupted Growth: Typically, these are companies in attractive, high growth markets that have suffered what the Portfolio Managers believe is a temporary setback and/or are in transition to a more mature, lower growth business model that focuses more on current earnings than on rapid growth.
In seeking to identify these types of companies, the Portfolio Managers perform an initial screening to identify those companies that have stock prices that are trailing the performance of the overall market and that the Portfolio Managers believe are attractive relative to current cash flows. Next, the Portfolio Managers establish an estimate of a company’s intrinsic value. The Portfolio Managers will invest in a company’s stock on the basis of the company’s discount to the Portfolio Managers’ estimate of intrinsic value and the Portfolio Managers’ belief in its potential for appreciation over time. In addition, the Portfolio Managers may invest in anticipation of a catalyst, such as a merger, liquidation, spin off, or management change. The Portfolio Managers will typically visit a company and interview its management team to help understand management’s incentives (such as equity ownership in the company and compensation plans), the merits of its strategic plan, and other factors that have the potential to increase the value of the company’s stock. The Portfolio Managers also integrate governance factors into the investment process. They seek to invest in companies that have effective and independent boards composed of diverse, and currently active, CEOs and other C-level executives. They look for companies where management and shareholder interests are aligned (often through high ownership of the company by management), with long-term incentive plans and CEO and management compensation and succession plans in place. The Portfolio Managers also seek out companies that have full transparency and disclosure, effective capital deployment strategies and value enhancing merger and acquisition policies. When appropriate, the Portfolio Managers may engage with portfolio companies on a variety of topics, including governance, strategy and financing in an effort to enhance shareholder value. The Portfolio Managers may also engage with portfolio companies on financially material environmental and social issues.
The Portfolio Managers establish an intrinsic value for a company’s stock when it is purchased and then continue to evaluate the company’s stock price versus their estimate of its intrinsic value to determine whether to maintain, add to, reduce or eliminate the position. The Portfolio Managers typically reduce or eliminate a position in a company’s stock if the stock’s price appreciates and the company’s discount to their estimate of its intrinsic value narrows. The Portfolio Managers’ decision to reduce or eliminate a position in a particular stock may also be driven by their belief that another company’s stock has a wider discount to their estimate of its intrinsic value. Changes in a company’s management or corporate strategy, or the failure of a company to perform as expected, may also cause the Portfolio Managers to reduce or eliminate a position in that company’s stock.
As part of their fundamental investment analysis the Portfolio Managers consider environmental, social and governance factors they believe are financially material to individual investments, where applicable. This includes seeking to identify and engage with issuers where the Portfolio Managers believe an improvement in a financially material environmental, social and governance factor may enhance shareholder value. Accordingly, this may result in the Fund making an investment in a company with one or more
financially material environmental, social and governance risks at the time of investments. While consideration of financially material environmental, social and governance factors is inherently subjective and may be informed by both internally generated and third-party metrics, data and other information, the Portfolio Managers believe that the consideration of financially material environmental, social and governance factors, alongside traditional financial metrics, may enhance the Fund's overall investment process. The consideration of environmental, social and governance factors does not apply to certain instruments, such as certain derivative instruments, other registered investment companies, cash and cash equivalents and environmental, social and governance factors may not be deemed financially material to other investments. The consideration of environmental, social and governance factors as part of the investment process does not mean that the Fund pursues a specific “impact” or “sustainable” investment strategy.
The Fund may invest in restricted securities, including private placements, which are securities that are subject to legal restrictions on their sale and may not be sold to the public unless registered under the applicable securities law or pursuant to an applicable exemption.
At times, the Portfolio Managers may emphasize certain sectors that they believe will benefit from market or economic trends.
PERFORMANCE
The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the Fund’s performance has varied from year to year, as represented by the performance of the Fund's Institutional Class. The returns in the bar chart do not reflect any applicable sales charges. If sales charges were reflected, returns would be lower than those shown. The table below the bar chart shows what the returns would equal if you averaged out actual performance over various lengths of time and compares the returns with the returns of a broad based market index and additional indices. The broad-based market index is required by regulation. The additional index or indices have characteristics relevant to the Fund’s investment strategy. The indices are described in “Descriptions of Indices” in the prospectus. Unlike the returns in the bar chart, the returns in the table reflect the maximum applicable sales charges.
As of May 7, 2010, the Fund became the successor to DJG Small Cap Value Fund L.P., an unregistered limited partnership (“DJG Fund”); DJG Fund was the successor to The DJG Small Cap Value Fund, an unregistered commingled investment account (“DJG Account”). The performance after September 12, 2008 is that of DJG Fund and the performance from July 8, 1997 (the Fund’s commencement of operations) to September 11, 2008 is that of DJG Account. On May 7, 2010, the DJG Fund transferred its assets to the Fund in exchange for the Fund’s Institutional Class shares. The investment policies, objectives, guidelines and restrictions of the Fund are in all material respects equivalent to those of DJG Fund and DJG Account (the “Predecessors”). As a mutual fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Fund is subject to certain restrictions under the 1940 Act and the Internal Revenue Code to which the Predecessors were not subject. Had the Predecessors been registered under the 1940 Act and been subject to the provisions of the 1940 Act and the Code, their investment performance may have been adversely affected. The performance information reflects the actual expenses of the Predecessors.
The Predecessors did not have distribution policies. The Predecessors were an unregistered limited partnership and an unregistered commingled investment account, did not qualify as regulated investment companies for federal income tax purposes and did not pay dividends or other distributions. As a result of the different tax treatment, we are unable to show the after-tax returns for the Fund prior to May 7, 2010.
For each class, the performance prior to May 7, 2010, is that of the Fund’s Predecessors.
Returns would have been lower/higher if the investment adviser to the Predecessors and/or the Manager had not reimbursed/recouped certain expenses and/or waived a portion of the investment management fees during certain of the periods shown.
Past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Visit www.nb.com or call 800-366-6264 for updated performance information.
year-by-year % Returns as of 12/31 each year
Best quarter:
Q4 2020
38.69%
Worst quarter:
Q1 2020
-30.69%
Year to Date performance as of:
09/30/2025
13.17%
average annual total % returns as of 12/31/2024 
Intrinsic Value Fund
Intrinsic Value Fund
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Since Inception
(7/8/1997)
Institutional Class Return Before Taxes
7.61
9.49
8.52
10.62
Institutional Class Return After Taxes on Distributions
7.39
8.82
7.46
N/A
Institutional Class Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
4.68
7.46
6.64
N/A
Class A Return Before Taxes
1.00
7.79
7.48
10.17
Class C Return Before Taxes
5.38
8.27
7.31
9.97
Russell 3000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
23.81
13.86
12.55
9.03
Russell 2000® Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
8.05
7.29
7.14
8.34
Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
11.54
7.40
7.82
7.91
After-tax returns are shown for Institutional Class shares only and after-tax returns for other classes may vary. After-tax returns are calculated using the
historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an
investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred
arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.