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Growth Fund of America

Ticker symbol

AGTHX

Fund family

American Funds

Overall
activism
score

13.4

Percentile

8

What does this mean?

This fund has voted against the recommendation of management on 13.4% of the proposals it has faced. This makes it more activist than 8% of the funds in our database, as shown by the small blue and red plot above.

Activism Profile

Issue area	Activism Score	Activism Percentile	Activism Plot
Directors D	2.0	6
Executive compensation EC	13.8	8
Corporate governance CG	35.8	19
Corporate impact CI	1.9	29

Activism footprint: More activist funds have larger footprints. Each corner depicts the fund's activism percentile on one issue area. (More detailed explanation)

Detailed Vote Record

	Activism Score	Activism Plot	Votes
Directors			Against mgmt	With mgmt	Abstain
Director Election	2.0		37	1,813	0
Executive compensation
Management Proposals	16.9		21	113	2
Shareholder Proposals	10.7		9	75	0
Corporate governance
Board Independence and Performance	15.4		4	22	0
Voting Rules	41.9		13	18	0
Takeover Defenses	50.0		7	7	0
Corporate impact
Employment and Working Conditions	5.6		1	17	0
Environmental and Social	0.0		0	53	0
Political Influence and Charitable Contributions	0.0		0	21	0