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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS
BNY Mellon Equity Income Fund

February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)

        
 

Description

   

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Value ($)

 

Common Stocks - 99.2%

     

Automobiles & Components - .9%

     

Ford Motor Co.

   

712,407

 

 8,862,343

 

Banks - 4.3%

     

Bank of America Corp.

   

112,791

 

3,893,545

 

Bank OZK

   

22,882

 

1,002,232

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

   

187,341

 

34,856,666

 

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

   

32,537

 

4,789,446

 
    

44,541,889

 

Capital Goods - 4.3%

     

Emerson Electric Co.

   

111,981

 

11,965,170

 

Fastenal Co.

   

69,760

 

5,093,178

 

Illinois Tool Works, Inc.

   

14,230

 

3,730,395

 

Johnson Controls International PLC

   

60,101

 

3,562,186

 

Lockheed Martin Corp.

   

31,418

 

13,454,444

 

PACCAR, Inc.

   

54,428

 

6,035,521

 
    

43,840,894

 

Commercial & Professional Services - .8%

     

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

   

9,362

 

2,351,079

 

Paychex, Inc.

   

49,391

 

6,056,324

 
    

8,407,403

 

Consumer Discretionary Distribution & Retail - 3.8%

     

Amazon.com, Inc.

   

203,500

a 

35,970,660

 

Best Buy Co., Inc.

   

32,273

 

2,610,240

 
    

38,580,900

 

Consumer Durables & Apparel - 1.1%

     

Carter's, Inc.

   

69,254

b 

5,606,111

 

Ralph Lauren Corp.

   

30,585

 

5,686,363

 
    

11,292,474

 

Consumer Services - 1.9%

     

Darden Restaurants, Inc.

   

108,805

 

18,574,102

 

The Wendy's Company

   

59,020

 

1,068,852

 
    

19,642,954

 

Energy - 7.2%

     

Antero Midstream Corp.

   

67,155

 

899,877

 

Chevron Corp.

   

4,361

 

662,916

 

EOG Resources, Inc.

   

79,817

 

9,135,854

 

EQT Corp.

   

138,182

 

5,133,461

 

Exxon Mobil Corp.

   

28,074

 

2,934,294

 

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

   

13,998

 

2,368,882

 

ONEOK, Inc.

   

128,665

 

9,665,315

 


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

        
 

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Value ($)

 

Common Stocks - 99.2% (continued)

     

Energy - 7.2% (continued)

     

Phillips 66

   

71,266

 

10,156,118

 

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

   

16,079

 

3,781,620

 

Schlumberger NV

   

99,935

 

4,829,859

 

The Williams Companies, Inc.

   

395,831

 

14,226,166

 

Valero Energy Corp.

   

72,314

 

10,229,538

 
    

74,023,900

 

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts - 1.4%

     

Apartment Income REIT Corp.

   

13,699

c 

415,354

 

Boston Properties, Inc.

   

68,164

c 

4,411,574

 

Brandywine Realty Trust

   

29,102

c 

125,139

 

Healthpeak Properties, Inc.

   

449,862

c 

7,535,189

 

Realty Income Corp.

   

28,595

c 

1,490,085

 
    

13,977,341

 

Financial Services - 2.5%

     

BlackRock, Inc.

   

12,824

 

10,404,624

 

Blackstone, Inc.

   

28,246

 

3,610,404

 

Morgan Stanley

   

60,329

 

5,190,707

 

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

   

34,899

 

3,955,802

 

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

   

2,703

 

1,051,602

 

The Western Union Company

   

115,949

 

1,554,876

 
    

25,768,015

 

Food, Beverage & Tobacco - 8.6%

     

Altria Group, Inc.

   

590,851

 

24,171,714

 

Flowers Foods, Inc.

   

54,731

 

1,227,069

 

General Mills, Inc.

   

12,331

 

791,404

 

Molson Coors Beverage Co., Cl. B

   

34,833

 

2,174,276

 

Mondelez International, Inc., Cl. A

   

30,854

 

2,254,502

 

PepsiCo, Inc.

   

89,605

 

14,815,291

 

Philip Morris International, Inc.

   

286,352

 

25,760,226

 

The Coca-Cola Company

   

288,227

 

17,299,385

 
    

88,493,867

 

Health Care Equipment & Services - 2.1%

     

Becton, Dickinson and Co.

   

20,038

 

4,719,951

 

Medtronic PLC

   

176,670

 

14,727,211

 

The Cigna Group

   

6,845

 

2,300,878

 
    

21,748,040

 

Household & Personal Products - .9%

     

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

   

47,112

 

5,708,561

 

The Procter & Gamble Company

   

19,145

 

3,042,906

 
    

8,751,467

 

Insurance - 3.4%

     

American International Group, Inc.

   

104,752

 

7,635,373

 

Prudential Financial, Inc.

   

18,199

 

1,983,509

 

The Allstate Corp.

   

21,418

 

3,416,599

 


        
 

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Common Stocks - 99.2% (continued)

     

Insurance - 3.4% (continued)

     

The Progressive Corp.

   

115,041

 

21,807,172

 
    

34,842,653

 

Materials - 4.3%

     

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

   

5,530

 

1,294,241

 

Dow, Inc.

   

94,868

 

5,301,224

 

Eastman Chemical Co.

   

8,724

 

765,444

 

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.

   

140,396

 

5,308,373

 

International Paper Co.

   

32,595

 

1,152,559

 

LyondellBasell Industries NV, Cl. A

   

248,916

 

24,961,297

 

Packaging Corp. of America

   

30,354

 

5,499,841

 

Sylvamo Corp.

   

2,845

 

171,866

 
    

44,454,845

 

Media & Entertainment - 6.5%

     

Alphabet, Inc., Cl. A

   

148,134

a 

20,510,633

 

Alphabet, Inc., Cl. C

   

123,929

a 

17,322,796

 

Comcast Corp., Cl. A

   

30,380

 

1,301,783

 

Meta Platforms, Inc., Cl. A

   

39,712

 

19,464,043

 

Netflix, Inc.

   

9,687

a 

5,840,486

 

Omnicom Group, Inc.

   

27,378

 

2,419,941

 
    

66,859,682

 

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences - 6.8%

     

AbbVie, Inc.

   

102,822

 

18,101,813

 

Amgen, Inc.

   

8,593

 

2,353,021

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

   

61,334

 

3,112,701

 

Danaher Corp.

   

19,443

 

4,921,801

 

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

   

146,074

 

10,531,935

 

Merck & Co., Inc.

   

207,856

 

26,428,890

 

Pfizer, Inc.

   

163,166

 

4,333,689

 
    

69,783,850

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 11.5%

     

Broadcom, Inc.

   

32,522

 

42,294,536

 

Microchip Technology, Inc.

   

74,360

 

6,256,650

 

NVIDIA Corp.

   

55,686

 

44,054,308

 

Qualcomm, Inc.

   

159,013

 

25,090,661

 
    

117,696,155

 

Software & Services - 7.7%

     

Microsoft Corp.

   

190,333

 

 78,729,342

 

Technology Hardware & Equipment - 9.0%

     

Apple, Inc.

   

356,894

 

64,508,591

 

Cisco Systems, Inc.

   

153,899

 

7,444,095

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

   

263,223

 

4,008,886

 

HP, Inc.

   

77,943

 

2,208,125

 

Juniper Networks, Inc.

   

79,899

 

2,958,660

 

NetApp, Inc.

   

25,135

 

2,240,031

 


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) (continued)

        
 

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Value ($)

 

Common Stocks - 99.2% (continued)

     

Technology Hardware & Equipment - 9.0% (continued)

     

Seagate Technology Holdings PLC

   

93,281

 

8,679,797

 
    

92,048,185

 

Telecommunication Services - 5.2%

     

AT&T, Inc.

   

668,444

 

11,316,757

 

Lumen Technologies, Inc.

   

74,649

a 

120,931

 

Verizon Communications, Inc.

   

1,043,917

 

41,777,558

 
    

53,215,246

 

Transportation - 1.3%

     

United Parcel Service, Inc., Cl. B

   

92,880

 

 13,770,389

 

Utilities - 3.7%

     

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

   

22,996

 

1,959,029

 

Constellation Energy Corp.

   

107,938

 

18,182,156

 

Dominion Energy, Inc.

   

92,613

 

4,429,680

 

Duke Energy Corp.

   

9,367

 

860,172

 

Entergy Corp.

   

67,772

 

6,883,602

 

Exelon Corp.

   

37,914

 

1,358,838

 

NextEra Energy, Inc.

   

13,057

 

720,616

 

OGE Energy Corp.

   

84,934

 

2,795,178

 

The Southern Company

   

13,539

 

910,498

 
    

38,099,769

 

Total Investments (cost $648,547,956)

 

99.2%

 

1,017,431,603

 

Cash and Receivables (Net)

 

.8%

 

8,414,083

 

Net Assets

 

100.0%

 

1,025,845,686

 

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

a Non-income producing security.

b Security, or portion thereof, on loan. At February 29, 2024, the value of the fund’s securities on loan was $1,944,014 and the value of the collateral was $2,008,653, consisting of U.S. Government & Agency securities. In addition, the value of collateral may include pending sales that are also on loan.

c Investment in real estate investment trust within the United States.


The following is a summary of the inputs used as of February 29, 2024 in valuing the fund’s investments:

       
 

Level 1-Unadjusted Quoted Prices

Level 2- Other Significant Observable Inputs

 

Level 3-Significant Unobservable Inputs

Total

 

Assets ($) 

  

Investments in Securities:

  

Equity Securities - Common Stocks

1,017,431,603

-

 

-

1,017,431,603

 

 See Statement of Investments for additional detailed categorizations, if any.


The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. The fund is an investment company and applies the accounting and reporting guidance of the FASB ASC Topic 946 Financial Services-Investment Companies. The fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

The fair value of a financial instrument is the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (i.e., the exit price). GAAP establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs of valuation techniques used to measure fair value. This hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements).

Additionally, GAAP provides guidance on determining whether the volume and activity in a market has decreased significantly and whether such a decrease in activity results in transactions that are not orderly. GAAP requires enhanced disclosures around valuation inputs and techniques used during annual and interim periods.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund’s investments relating to fair value measurements. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. Valuation techniques used to value the fund’s investments are as follows:

The Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated the Adviser as the fund’s valuation designee to make all fair value determinations with respect to the fund’s portfolio investments, subject to the Board’s oversight and pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the Act.


Investments in equity securities are valued at the last sales price on the securities exchange or national securities market on which such securities are primarily traded. Securities listed on the National Market System for which market quotations are available are valued at the official closing price or, if there is no official closing price that day, at the last sales price. For open short positions, asked prices are used for valuation purposes. Bid price is used when no asked price is available. Registered investment companies that are not traded on an exchange are valued at their net asset value. All of the preceding securities are generally categorized within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

Securities not listed on an exchange or the national securities market, or securities for which there were no transactions, are valued at the average of the most recent bid and asked prices. These securities are generally categorized within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

Fair valuing of securities may be determined with the assistance of a pricing service using calculations based on indices of domestic securities and other appropriate indicators, such as prices of relevant American Depository Receipts and futures. Utilizing these techniques may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

When market quotations or official closing prices are not readily available, or are determined not to accurately reflect fair value, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded (for example, a foreign exchange or market), but before the fund calculates its net asset value, the fund may value these investments at fair value as determined in accordance with the procedures approved by the fund's Board Members (the “Board”). Certain factors may be considered when fair valuing investments such as: fundamental analytical data, the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition, an evaluation of the forces that influence the market in which the securities are purchased and sold, and public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable issuers. These securities are either categorized within Level 2 or 3 of the fair value hierarchy depending on the relevant inputs used.

For securities where observable inputs are limited, assumptions about market activity and risk are used and such securities are generally categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

Pursuant to a securities lending agreement with The Bank of New York Mellon, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon and an affiliate of BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc., the fund may lend securities to qualified institutions. It is the fund’s policy that, at origination, all loans are secured by collateral of at least 102% of the value of U.S. securities loaned and 105% of the value of foreign securities loaned. Collateral equivalent to at least 100% of the market value of securities on loan is maintained at all times. Collateral is either in the form of cash, which can be invested in certain money market mutual funds managed by BNY Mellon Investment Adviser Inc., or U.S. Government and Agency securities. The fund is entitled to receive all dividends, interest and distributions on securities loaned, in addition to income earned as a


result of the lending transaction. Should a borrower fail to return the securities in a timely manner, The Bank of New York Mellon is required to replace the securities for the benefit of the fund or credit the fund with the market value of the unreturned securities and is subrogated to the fund’s rights against the borrower and the collateral. Additionally, the contractual maturity of security lending transactions are on an overnight and continuous basis.

At February 29, 2024, accumulated net unrealized appreciation on investments was $368,883,647, consisting of $384,490,515 gross unrealized appreciation and $15,606,868 gross unrealized depreciation.

At February 29, 2024, the cost of investments for federal income tax purposes was substantially the same as the cost for financial reporting purposes (see the Statement of Investments).

Additional investment related disclosures are hereby incorporated by reference to the annual and semi-annual reports previously filed with the SEC on Form N-CSR.