Breaking News

American Funds American Balanced Fund® Class R-4 (RLBEX)

US Funds

Add to/Remove from a Portfolio Add to Watchlist

35.32 +0.03 +0.09%

30/05 - Closed. Currency in USD

Type: Fund

Market: United States

Issuer: American Funds

Underlying: S&P 500 TR

Asset Class: Equity

Morningstar Rating:
Total Assets: 4.13B

General
Chart
- Streaming charts
- Interactive Chart
News & Analysis
- News
- Analysis & Comment
Technical
- Technical Analysis
Forum

RLBEX Overview

Find basic information about the American Funds American Balanced Fund® Class R-4 mutual fund such as total assets, risk rating, Min. investment, market cap and category. Learn about the fund's agencies rating and risk rating, transparent information about the fund's management personal, policies of invested allocation and diversification, past performance. In addition we provide you related news, analysis tools, interactive charts and analysis articles. You may add RLBEX MF to your portfolio and watchlist to keep track with the fund's performance and users commentary.

Show/Hide News

Technical Chart

Last Update:

1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
3 Months
6 Months
1 Year
5 years
Max

Rating

1-Year Change4.93%

Prev. Close35.29

Risk Rating

TTM Yield1.98%

ROE27.73%

IssuerAmerican Funds

Turnover44%

ROA11.07%

Inception DateJun 21, 2002

Total Assets4.13B

Expenses0.60%

Min. Investment250

Market Cap221B

CategoryAllocation - - 50% to 70% Equity

What is your sentiment on American Funds American Balanced R4?

Market is currently closed. Voting is open during market hours.

American Funds American Balanced Fund® Class R-4 News

Stock market today: S&P 500 ends lower, but notches best month since Nov. 2023 By Investing.com - May 30, 2025

Investing.com -- S&P 500 wrapped up May with its biggest monthly gain in 18 months after cutting the bulk of its losses Friday as chip stocks including Nvidia were pressured...

S&P 500 falls amid new US-China tech sanctions By Investing.com - May 30, 2025

Investing.com -- Major averages, including the S&P 500, faced a downturn on Friday, falling 1% in response to reports of the US planning to expand technology sanctions against...

Did a meme and a microphone end the TACO trade? By Investing.com - May 30, 2025

Investing.com -- On a humid Wednesday afternoon in Washington, the White House press room buzzed with anticipation. President Trump was swearing in Jeanine Pirro when CNBC reporter...

American Funds American Balanced Fund® Class R-4 Analysis

S&P 500 Remains Overbought but Volume Strength Counters Sell Triggers By Declan Fallon - May 30, 2025

I don't like when markets gap higher, lose momentum, but hold a higher close; this leaves them vulnerable to more selling the next day, particularly if such action occurs at the...

Stocks Rise Despite Tariff Chaos but Technical Patterns Hint at Reversal Ahead By Michael Kramer - May 30, 2025

Stocks finished slightly higher on the day, with the S&P 500 up about 40 basis points, nearly half of which came in the final 30 minutes of trading—there was an approximate $3...

S&P 500 Bulls Eyeing Next Leg Up Amid Nvidia Earnings Cheer, Trump Tariff Block By Michael Kramer - May 29, 2025

Yesterday, stocks finished lower as implied volatility surged ahead of Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) earnings. The VIX 1-day jumped to roughly 19.5, significantly higher than Tuesday's...

Performance

Create Alert

Add to Watchlist

Add to/Remove from a Portfolio

	YTD	3M	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
Growth of 1000	995	967	1113	1262	1540	2126
Fund Return	-0.54%	-3.33%	11.27%	8.07%	9.02%	7.84%
Place in category	173	218	42	91	166	52
% in Category	37	47	9	20	41	19

Top Equity Funds by American Funds

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
American Funds Growth Fund Amer A	152.61B	-4.70	13.98	12.57
American Funds American Balanced A	111.66B	-0.52	8.11	7.88
American Funds Invmt Co of Amer A	94.89B	-3.01	14.74	11.18
American Funds Washington Mutual A	88.94B	-0.80	11.20	11.14
American Funds Income Fund of Amer	79.24B	4.34	6.92	6.92

Top Funds for Allocation--50% to 70% Equity Category

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
American Funds American Balanced A	111.66B	-0.52	8.11	7.88
Vanguard Wellington Admiral	94.12B	-1.53	8.15	8.06
American Funds American Balanced R6	56.53B	-0.42	8.45	8.21
Vanguard Balanced Index Adm	44.28B	-1.88	7.76	7.77
Fidelity Advisor Balanced Fund Clas	42.26B	16.10	4.96	9.64

Top Holdings

Name	ISIN	Weight %	Last	Change %
Broadcom	US11135F1012	3.29	242.07	+0.04%
Microsoft	US5949181045	2.92	460.36	+0.37%
Cap Grp Cent Fd Ser Ii	-	2.89	-	-
Philip Morris	US7181721090	2.40	180.59	+1.53%
Meta Platforms	US30303M1027	1.65	647.49	+0.38%

Technical Summary

Type	Daily	Weekly	Monthly
Moving Averages	Buy	Buy	Buy
Technical Indicators	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy
Summary	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy

We encourage you to use comments to engage with users, share your perspective and ask questions of authors and each other. However, in order to maintain the high level of discourse we’ve all come to value and expect, please keep the following criteria in mind:

Enrich the conversation
Stay focused and on track. Only post material that’s relevant to the topic being discussed.
Be respectful. Even negative opinions can be framed positively and diplomatically.
Use standard writing style. Include punctuation and upper and lower cases.
NOTE: Spam and/or promotional messages and links within a comment will be removed
Avoid profanity, slander or personal attacks directed at an author or another user.
Don’t Monopolize the Conversation. We appreciate passion and conviction, but we also believe strongly in giving everyone a chance to air their thoughts. Therefore, in addition to civil interaction, we expect commenters to offer their opinions succinctly and thoughtfully, but not so repeatedly that others are annoyed or offended. If we receive complaints about individuals who take over a thread or forum, we reserve the right to ban them from the site, without recourse.
Only English comments will be allowed.

Perpetrators of spam or abuse will be deleted from the site and prohibited from future registration at Investing.com’s discretion.

I have read and understood Investing.com Nigeria's comment guidelines and agree to the terms described.

I Agree

RLBEX Comments

Write your thoughts about American Funds American Balanced Fund® Class R-4

Are you sure you want to delete this chart?

Delete Cancel

Post

Post also to:

Replace the attached chart with a new chart ?

Replace Cancel

1000

Comment Guidelines

Your ability to comment is currently suspended due to negative user reports. Your status will be reviewed by our moderators.

Please wait a minute before you try to comment again.

Thanks for your comment. Please note that all comments are pending until approved by our moderators. It may therefore take some time before it appears on our website.

<div id="comment">
				<div class="comment js-comment" data-comment-id="{commentID}" id="comment-{commentID}" data-user-id="">
    <div class="mainComment js-content">
       <div class="commentInnerWrapper">
        <a href="{userLink}" class="js-user-link"><img src="{userImage}" width="33" height="33" alt="{usernameAlt}" class="img" onerror="this.src='https://i-invdn-com.investing.com/defaultUserMaleTmp.png';"></a><div class="commentBody">
                					<span class="commentUsername">
                    	<a href="{userLink}" class="js-user-link js-user-name">{username}</a>
					</span>
                                <span class="js-date" comment-date="{dateFormat}" comment-date-formatted="{dateFormatted}" title="{dateTitle}">Just Now</span>
                <div class="commentDropDown js-commentDropDownWrapper " data-user-id="" data-cid="{commentID}">
	<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="threeDotsIconSmall js-thinDropdownArrow"></a>
	<div class="tooltipPopup commentActionsPop noHeader js-commentDropDownOptions displayNone">
		<div class="addRow js-option share">
			<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="js-commentSharePopup" data-cid="{commentID}" data-curl="{commentLink}"><span class="smallShareIcon middle"></span>Share</a>
		</div>

<div class="js-option addRow follow">
            <div class="js-follow-post-button" data-reg_ep="follow comment">
                <span class="alertfollowIcon middle"></span>Follow this post            </div>
            <div class="js-unfollow-post-button displayNoneImp">
                <span class="alertUnfollowIcon middle"></span>Unfollow this post            </div>
        </div>

<div class="addRow js-option save"  data-reg_ep="save comment">
		<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="js-save-item-btn" data-item-type="comments" data-item-id="{commentID}">
			<i class="saveItemBigIcon middle"></i>
			Save		</a>
	</div>
	<div class="addRow saveItemsConfirmation noHover displayNone js-saveItemResult">
		
<div class="content js-saveItemSuccess displayNone">
	<span class="mediumGreenSuccessIcon"></span><span>Saved. See <a href="/members-admin/saved-items" target="_blank">Saved Items</a>.</span>
	<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="bugCloseIcon js-close"></a>
</div>
<div class="content js-saveItemAlreadySaved saveItemAlreadySaved displayNoneImp">
	<span>This comment has already been saved in your <a href="/members-admin/saved-items" target="_blank">Saved Items</a></span>
	<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="bugCloseIcon js-close"></a>
</div>
	</div>

<div class="addRow shareButtons js-sharePopup displayNone">
			<div class="js-shareComment"><span class="js-shareCommentSpan"></span></div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
                 <div class="commentAuthor js-comment-by-author"><span class="commentAuthorIcon"></span>Author's response</div>             </div>
		<div id="commentText-{commentID}" class="js-text-wrapper commentText withImage">
							<div id="commentBigChart{commentID}" class="commentBigChart js-comment-chart" onclick="openViewChartPopup('{commentID}')">
					<img src="https://d72-invdn-com.investing.com/comments_images/{commentImage}" alt="{commentAlt}">
					<i class="newMagnifyChartIcon"></i>
				</div>
						<span class="js-text">{commentContent}</span>
			<div class="clear"></div>
							<div class="commentButtons js-not-master-user">
					<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="reply js-reply-btn" data-real-parent-id="{commentID}" data-to-user-name="{username}" data-to-user-id="">Reply</a>
					<div class="inlineblock likeDislikeBox js-like-dislike-box" data-item-id="{commentID}">
	<input class="js-like-checkbox" type="checkbox" name="option" value="Yes" id="like_{commentID}">
	<label for="like_{commentID}" class="like" title="I agree"></label>
	<span class="numOfLikes js-like-count lighterGrayFont">0</span>
	<input class="js-dislike-checkbox" type="checkbox" name="option" value="No" id="dislike_{commentID}">
	<label for="dislike_{commentID}" class="dislike" title="I disagree"></label>
	<span class="numOfDislikes js-dislike-count lighterGrayFont">0</span>
</div>

<div class="reportComment js-flag float_lang_base_2">
                            <a href="javascript:void(0);" id="commentFlag_{commentID}">
                                <span class="reportCommentIcon middle"></span><span class="inlineblock middle">Report</span>
                            </a>
                        </div>
                    				</div>
					</div>
	   </div>
	</div>
	</div>			</div>
			<div id="reply">
				
    <div class="commentReply js-comment js-comment-reply" data-comment-id="{commentID}" id="comment-{commentID}" data-user-id="">
		<div class="commentInnerWrapper"><a href="{userLink}" class="js-user-link"><img src="{userImage}" width="33" height="33" alt="{usernameAlt}" class="img" onerror="this.src='https://i-invdn-com.investing.com/defaultUserMaleTmp.png';"></a><div class="commentBody js-content">
            				<span class="commentUsername">
					<a href="{userLink}" class="commentUsername js-user-link js-user-name" onMouseOver="">{username}</a>
				</span>
                        <span class="js-date" comment-date="{dateFormat}" comment-date-formatted="{dateFormatted}" title="{dateTitle}">Just Now</span>
			 <div class="commentAuthor js-comment-by-author"><span class="commentAuthorIcon"></span>Author's response</div> 			<div class="commentDropDown js-commentDropDownWrapper " data-user-id="" data-cid="{commentID}">
	<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="threeDotsIconSmall js-thinDropdownArrow"></a>
	<div class="tooltipPopup commentActionsPop noHeader js-commentDropDownOptions displayNone">
		<div class="addRow js-option share">
			<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="js-commentSharePopup" data-cid="{commentID}" data-curl="{commentLink}"><span class="smallShareIcon middle"></span>Share</a>
		</div>

</div>
		<div id="commentText-{commentID}" class="js-text-wrapper commentText withImage">
							<div id="commentBigChart{commentID}" class="replyBigChart displayNone js-comment-chart">
					<img src="https://d72-invdn-com.investing.com/comments_images/{commentImage}" alt="{commentAlt}">
					<i class="newMagnifyChartIcon"></i>
				</div>
				<span id="commentSmallChart{commentID}" class="commentSmallChart pointer js-comment-chart" onclick="openViewChartPopup('{commentID}')">
                    <img src="https://d72-invdn-com.investing.com/comments_images/{commentImageSmall}" width="116" height="52" alt="{commentAlt}">
                    <span class="chartMagnifyOverlay displayNone"></span>
                    <span class="searchGlassIcon chartMagnify displayNone"></span>
                </span>
						<span class="js-text">{commentContent}</span>
			<div class="clear"></div>
							<div class="commentButtons js-not-master-user">
					<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="reply js-reply-btn" data-real-parent-id="{commentID}" data-to-user-name="{username}" data-to-user-id="">Reply</a>
					<div class="inlineblock likeDislikeBox js-like-dislike-box" data-item-id="{commentID}">
	<input class="js-like-checkbox" type="checkbox" name="option" value="Yes" id="like_{commentID}">
	<label for="like_{commentID}" class="like" title="I agree"></label>
	<span class="numOfLikes js-like-count lighterGrayFont">0</span>
	<input class="js-dislike-checkbox" type="checkbox" name="option" value="No" id="dislike_{commentID}">
	<label for="dislike_{commentID}" class="dislike" title="I disagree"></label>
	<span class="numOfDislikes js-dislike-count lighterGrayFont">0</span>
</div>

Are you sure you want to delete this chart?

Delete Cancel

Post

Replace the attached chart with a new chart ?

Replace Cancel

1000

Comment Guidelines

Your ability to comment is currently suspended due to negative user reports. Your status will be reviewed by our moderators.

Please wait a minute before you try to comment again.

I feel that this comment is:

Spam

Offensive

Thank You!

Your report has been sent to our moderators for review

More Categories

1D1W1M6M1Y5YMax

NSE 30	4,120.12	-0.15	0.00%
NSE All Share	111,742.01	-76.07	-0.07%
US 30	42,219.5	+3.8	+0.01%
US 500	5,903.8	-8.4	-0.14%
FTSE 100	8,772.38	+55.93	+0.64%
DAX	23,997.48	+64.25	+0.27%
South Africa Top 40	86,553.42	-501.15	-0.58%

Brent Oil	62.78	-0.57	-0.90%
Crude Oil WTI	60.79	-0.15	-0.25%
Gold	3,315.40	-28.50	-0.85%
Silver	33.179	-0.391	-1.16%
Copper	4.7025	+0.0010	+0.02%
London Cocoa	6,541.00	+340.00	+5.48%
London Wheat	157.20	-0.35	-0.22%

Nigeria 10Y	19.409	+0.048	+0.25%
Nigeria 2Y	27.974	0.000	0.00%
U.K. 10Y	4.6390	-0.0110	-0.24%
Germany 10Y	2.5080	-0.0040	-0.16%
U.S. 10Y	4.397	-0.027	-0.61%
U.S. 5Y	3.959	-0.040	-1.00%
U.S. 2Y	3.898	-0.040	-1.02%

Fidelitybk	19.400	0.000	0.00%
Zenith Bank	49.00	+0.50	+1.03%
UBA	34.70	0.00	0.00%
First HoldCo	25.00	-0.45	-1.77%
Guaranty Trust Holding	67.00	-2.00	-2.90%
Sterling Bank	5.650	-0.100	-1.74%
Dangote Cement	440.00	0.00	0.00%

Recent Quotes

	Name	Price	Chg.	Chg. %
	American Funds Am.	35.32	+0.03	+0.09%
	Harvard House BCI.	3.080	+0.004	+0.11%