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American Funds IS® Growth 1
Release date as of 2024-03-31. Data on page is subject to change.
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Total Fund Assets ($ Mil)
43,310.54
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  Investment Objective & Strategy  
The investment seeks growth of capital.
The fund invests primarily in common stocks and seeks to invest in companies that appear to offer superior opportunities for growth of capital. It may invest up to 25% of its assets in common stocks and other securities of issuers domiciled outside the United States.
  Morningstar Category: Large Growth
Large-growth portfolios invest primarily in big U.S. companies that are projected to grow faster than other large-cap stocks. Stocks in the top 70% of the capitalization of the U.S. equity market are defined as large cap. Growth is defined based on fast growth (high growth rates for earnings, sales, book value, and cash flow) and high valuations (high price ratios and low dividend yields). Most of these portfolios focus on companies in rapidly expanding industries. 
  Investment Risks
There are no additional fund specific investment risks (e.g. liquidity risk, currency risk, foreign investment risk, etc.) associated with this fund beyond the normal risks generally associated with investing in a mutual fund.
  Portfolio Profile
Asset Allocation
% of Net Assets
Bullet U.S. Stocks U.S. Stocks 85.9
Bullet Non-U.S. Stocks Non-U.S. Stocks 7.9
Bullet Bonds Bonds 0.0
Bullet Cash Cash 5.8
Bullet Other Other 0.4
Asset Allocation Rescaled Graph
Data through 2024-03-31
Morningstar Equity Sectors
% of Stocks
Cyclical 20.82
Basic Materials 1.58
Consumer Cyclical 12.88
Financial Services 6.32
Real Estate 0.04
Sensitive 60.68
Communication Services 20.71
Energy 3.87
Industrials 10.46
Technology 25.64
Defensive 18.50
Consumer Defensive 3.87
Healthcare 13.82
Utilities 0.81
Data through 2024-03-31
Holding Status
Total Number of Stock Holdings 231
Total Number of Bond Holdings 0
% of Net Assets in Top 10 Holdings 34.72
Turnover % (as of 2023-12-31) 23.00
30 Day SEC Yield % 0.41
Top Holdings
Sector P/E % of Net
Assets
Meta Platforms Inc Class A 32.66 8.87
Microsoft Corp 38.04 5.38
Netflix Inc 50.48 4.39
Tesla Inc 40.88 3.53
Broadcom Inc 49.25 2.58
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc 27.68 2.19
TransDigm Group Inc 52.25 2.10
Alphabet Inc Class C 26.25 2.02
Intuitive Surgical Inc 79.34 1.83
Visa Inc Class A 32.15 1.83
Data through 2024-03-31
  Principal Risks   
Foreign Securities, Long-Term Outlook and Projections, Loss of Money, Not FDIC Insured, Growth Investing, Active Management, Issuer, Market/Market Volatility
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Inception Date: 1984-02-08
Portfolio Manager(s)
Irfan M. Furniturewala   (2021-05-01)
Irfan M. Furniturewala is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 24 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 23 years. Earlier in his career at Capital, as an equity investment analyst, he covered U.S. hardware and semiconductor companies. Prior to joining Capital, Irfan was a senior design engineer at Motorola, Inc., and he is a co-inventor of two patents approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Mumbai. Irfan is based in Los Angeles.
Mark L. Casey   (2017-05-01)
Mark L. Casey is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 23 years of investment industry experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career at Capital, Mark was an equity investment analyst and covered U.S. media, entertainment, newspapers, infrastructure software, internet and document imaging. Prior to joining Capital, he was a director and product manager for Siebel Systems. He holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University graduating magna cum laude. Mark is based in San Francisco.
Paul R. Benjamin   (2018-05-01)
Paul Benjamin is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 18 years of investment industry experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career at Capital, he was an equity investment analyst, covering U.S. large-cap software companies. Prior to joining Capital, he managed the European operations for Interelate, a technology start-up funded by Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in finance and religion from Northwestern College graduating magna cum laude. Paul is based in Los Angeles.
Anne-Marie Peterson   (2018-01-01)
Anne-Marie Peterson is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. She has 29 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 19 years. Earlier in her career at Capital, she was an equity investment analyst covering U.S. retail and restaurants. Prior to joining Capital, she was a partner and research analyst for Thomas Weisel Partners and before that, she was a research associate at Montgomery Securities. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Irvine. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Anne-Marie is based in San Francisco.
Andraz Razen   (2013-05-01)
Andraz Razen is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. As an equity investment analyst at Capital, Andraz is a generalist covering small-cap companies. He has 25 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 18 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he also covered U.S. health care and supplies companies. Prior to joining Capital, he was an analyst and portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments in Boston. He holds a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics from Tufts University graduating summa cum laude. Andraz is based in London.
Alan J. Wilson   (2014-05-01)
Alan J. Wilson is a portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 39 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 33 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered U.S. construction & housing, machinery & engineering, environmental services, energy equipment, trucks, personal care, household products and energy (oil & gas drilling) companies. Before joining Capital, Alan was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and an engineer with Texas Eastern Corp.
Investment Advisor(s)
Capital Research and Management Company
Issuer
American Funds
Subadvisor(s)
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