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78.17 -0.28 -0.36%

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Type: Fund

Market: United States

Issuer: American Funds

Underlying: S&P 500 TR

Asset Class: Equity

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Total Assets: 154.72B

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Find basic information about the American Funds The Growth Fund Of America® Class A 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 AGTHX MF to your portfolio and watchlist to keep track with the fund's performance and users commentary.

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1-Year Change6.3%

Prev. Close78.45

Risk Rating

TTM Yield0.37%

ROE30.97%

IssuerAmerican Funds

Turnover19%

ROA13.21%

Inception DateNov 30, 1973

Total Assets154.72B

Expenses0.60%

Min. Investment250

Market Cap252.02B

CategoryLarge Growth

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American Funds The Growth Fund Of America® Class A Analysis

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	YTD	3M	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
Growth of 1000	1033	1020	1184	1639	2008	3490
Fund Return	3.26%	2.03%	18.41%	17.89%	14.96%	13.31%
Place in category	180	370	234	499	382	433
% in Category	19	34	22	49	45	58

Top Equity Funds by American Funds

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
American Funds American Balanced A	113.04B	3.42	8.95	8.27
American Funds Invmt Co of Amer A	96.13B	4.19	16.94	11.91
American Funds Washington Mutual A	88.97B	4.43	12.37	11.66
American Funds Income Fund of Amer	79.76B	7.60	7.41	7.24
American Funds Fundamental Invs A	77.8B	4.93	15.61	12.02

Top Funds for Large Growth Category

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
Fidelity Contrafund	133.44B	4.72	21.82	15.21
Vanguard Growth Index Adm	89.14B	0.89	19.98	15.30
JPMorgan Large Cap Growth R6	68.68B	0.30	19.54	17.00
Fidelity Blue Chip Growth	54.71B	-3.61	21.81	16.87
Fidelity Growth Company	52.49B	-3.07	21.04	17.72

Top Holdings

Name	ISIN	Weight %	Last	Change %
Meta Platforms	US30303M1027	5.51	682.35	-1.93%
Microsoft	US5949181045	4.69	477.40	-0.59%
Amazon.com	US0231351067	4.03	209.69	-1.33%
NVIDIA	US67066G1040	3.90	143.85	-1.12%
Eli Lilly	US5324571083	3.14	762.73	-2.84%

Technical Summary

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

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