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Total Assets: 119B

Type: Fund

Market: United States

Issuer: American Funds

Underlying: S&P 500 TR

Asset Class: Equity

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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. (ISIN: US3998741066)

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1-Year Change16.71%

Prev. Close63.83

Risk Rating

TTM Yield0.28%

ROE26.32%

IssuerAmerican Funds

Turnover31%

ROA9.64%

Inception DateNov 30, 1973

Total Assets119B

Expenses0.63%

Min. Investment250

Market Cap136.67B

CategoryLarge Growth

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American Funds The Growth Fund Of America® Class A Analysis

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Performance

	YTD	3M	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
Growth of 1000	1163	908	1137	1144	1594	2738
Fund Return	16.31%	-9.23%	13.69%	4.6%	9.77%	10.6%
Place in category	738	827	725	653	731	518
% in Category	56	68	57	63	69	63

Top Equity Funds by American Funds

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
American Funds American Balanced A	95.71B	2.17	4.45	6.77
VA CollegeAmerica 529 AMCAP 529A	81.1B	11.18	3.98	8.83
American Funds Washington Mutual A	75.84B	3.99	12.01	9.86
American Funds Invmt Co of Amer A	75.96B	11.51	10.49	9.63
American Funds Income Fund of Amer	72.97B	-2.90	5.87	5.66

Top Funds for Large Growth Category

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
Fidelity Contrafund	128.94B	23.85	7.30	12.09
Fidelity Contrafund K	128.94B	23.93	7.37	12.19
Vanguard Growth Index Adm	57.87B	26.05	7.30	12.88
Fidelity Blue Chip Growth	45.03B	31.98	6.23	14.60
JPMorgan Large Cap Growth R6	44.49B	16.05	6.07	14.65

Top Holdings

Name	ISIN	Weight %	Last	Change %
Microsoft	US5949181045	5.57	374.51	-1.16%
Meta Platforms	US30303M1027	4.28	324.82	-0.71%
Amazon.com	US0231351067	3.09	147.03	+0.64%
Broadcom	US11135F1012	2.90	930.00	+0.46%
Tesla	US88160R1014	2.53	238.83	-0.52%

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

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