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Total Assets: 152.78B

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.

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1-Year Change27.59%

Prev. Close80.88

Risk Rating

TTM Yield0.45%

ROE29.22%

IssuerAmerican Funds

Turnover25%

ROA13.04%

Inception DateNov 30, 1973

Total Assets152.78B

Expenses0.61%

Min. Investment250

Market Cap257.09B

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	1224	1049	1444	1140	2062	3458
Fund Return	22.4%	4.87%	44.39%	4.47%	15.57%	13.21%
Place in category	544	367	403	656	541	465
% in Category	47	30	33	64	53	57

Top Equity Funds by American Funds

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
American Funds American Balanced A	110.15B	13.30	5.24	8.16
American Funds Invmt Co of Amer A	93.83B	21.32	10.63	11.49
American Funds Washington Mutual A	88.35B	17.54	9.75	11.40
VA CollegeAmerica 529 AMCAP 529A	85.7B	17.00	2.94	10.60
American Funds Income Fund of Amer	78.26B	11.98	5.29	6.88

Top Funds for Large Growth Category

Name	Total Assets	YTD%	3Y%	10Y%
Fidelity Contrafund	128.94B	30.86	9.80	15.03
Fidelity Contrafund K	128.94B	30.89	9.88	15.12
Vanguard Growth Index Adm	83.57B	23.69	7.47	15.16
JPMorgan Large Cap Growth R6	66.25B	26.92	9.12	17.38
Fidelity Blue Chip Growth	62.16B	28.77	6.99	17.42

Top Holdings

Name	ISIN	Weight %	Last	Change %
Meta Platforms	US30303M1027	5.89	565.52	+0.79%
Microsoft	US5949181045	5.86	415.49	-0.55%
Amazon.com	US0231351067	3.67	202.88	-0.85%
Broadcom	US11135F1012	3.38	163.25	-1.27%
NVIDIA	US67066G1040	3.31	145.89	-0.76%

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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