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The Growth Fund Of America Class 529-a Shares: (MF: CGFAX)

(NASDAQ Mutual Funds) As of Aug 28, 2025 08:00 PM ET

$84.56 USD

+0.53 (0.63%)

Zacks MF Rank

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2 Buy
3 Hold
4 Sell
5 Strong Sell

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1-Strong Buy of 5 1        

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Latest Performance as of Jul 31, 2025

Total Return %* Percentile Rank Objective
YTD 12.54 8
3 months 18.10 21
6 months 7.03 14
1 Year 23.83 11
3 Year 21.38 12
5 Year 14.70 28
10 Year 13.43 21

* Annual for three years and beyond.

Bull Market (9/02 - 10/07) 135.19
Bear Market (10/07 - 2/09) -48.78
Bull Market (2/09 - 3/21) 978.57

Load Adjusted Returns as of Jul 31, 2025

1 Year 17.25
5 Year 14.84
10 Year 13.08
Since Inception 13.48

Quarterly Return

1st Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr.
2025 -6.43 17.96 NA NA
2024 12.55 3.76 5.23 4.48
2023 11.15 10.64 -2.43 14.27
2022 -10.70 -21.98 -2.70 2.19
2021 2.46 8.28 0.96 6.48
2020 -15.09 25.98 11.01 16.01

Annual Return

20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015
% Total Return 12.5428.4037.12-30.7319.2737.7728.06-2.9818.278.365.29
% Total Return Rel to Index 3.963.3810.87-12.52-9.4019.37-3.431.41-3.51-3.573.90
% Total Return Rel to Peer 5.609.0114.12-11.03-2.7817.85-0.363.88-2.390.546.89
% Perf Quintile vs Peer* 0.000.001.005.004.001.004.002.004.003.001.00
% Dividends 0.000.280.350.150.030.150.350.260.230.220.23
% Yield 0.000.350.400.280.040.210.630.540.450.480.51
Capital Gains ($) 0.006.384.301.846.012.733.274.820.002.533.39
Expense Ratio 0.630.650.670.640.640.680.700.700.710.740.73

* 1 = Top 20%, 5 = Bottom 20%