Is American Century Equity Growth Investor Fund (BEQGX) Worth Another Look?

American Century Equity Growth Investor (BEQGX) a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) invests in securities from the 1,500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies. The fund also invests in equity securities of smaller capitalization U.S. companies and the fund may invest in foreign securities as well.

This Large Blend fund, as of the last filing, allocates their fund in three major groups; Large Growth, Large Value and Foreign Bond. Further, as of the last filing, ALPHABET INC, MICROSOFT CORP and AMAZON.COM INC were the top holdings for BEQGX.

The American Century Equity Growth Investor fund, managed by American Cent, carries an expense ratio of 0.67%. Moreover, BEQGX requires a minimal initial investment of $2,500.

BEQGX has a history of positive total returns for over 10 years. Specifically, the fund’s returns over the 1, 3, 5 year benchmarks; 1 year 9.98%, 3 year 6.10% and 5 year 13.06%. To see how this fund performed compared in its category and other #1 and #2 Ranked Mutual Funds, please click here .

BEQGX’s performance, as of the last filing, when compared to funds in its category was in the top 39% in 1 year, top 46% over the past 3 years, and in the 46% over the past 5 years.

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