Adams Natural Resources Fund Announces First Quarter 2025 Performance

BALTIMORE, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PEO) announces the Fund’s investment returns for the first quarter of 2025. The total return on the Fund’s net asset value for the first quarter of 2025 was 8.8%, with dividends and capital gains reinvested. The comparable figures for the S&P 500 Energy Sector and the S&P 500 Materials Sector were 10.2% and 2.8%, respectively. Our benchmark, which is comprised of the S&P 500 Energy Sector (80%) and the S&P 500 Materials Sector (20%), returned 8.7%. The total return on the Fund’s market price for the same period was 7.4%.

The First Quarter Report to Shareholders is expected to be released on or about April 23, 2025.

ANNUALIZED COMPARATIVE RETURNS (3/31/2025)
	1 Year		3 Year		5 Year		10 Year
Adams Natural Resources Fund (NAV)	1.4	%	10.1	%	29.1	%	6.7	%
Adams Natural Resources Fund (market price)	8.9	%	11.3	%	31.3	%	6.9	%
S&P 500 Energy Sector	2.5	%	11.1	%	31.6	%	6.2	%
S&P 500 Materials Sector	-5.7	%	1.3	%	16.1	%	8.1	%

NET ASSET VALUE ANNOUNCED

The Fund’s net asset value at March 31, 2025, compared with the year earlier, was:

	3/31/2025		3/31/2024
Net assets	$684,022,125		$712,708,809
Shares outstanding		26,575,646		25,506,011
Net asset value per share	$25.74		$27.94