BALCX — American Balanced Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-27
BALCX — American Balanced Fund. Balanced Allocation · $288.23B AUM · 1.30% expense ratio · 19.7% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
BALCX Fund Overview
BALCX — American Balanced Fund is a US mutual fund managed by American Balanced Fund, categorised as Balanced Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: American Balanced Fund
- Category: Balanced Allocation
- Assets under management: $288.23B
- 1-year return: 19.7%
- Ticker: BALCX
- SEC CIK: 0000004568
- SEC series ID: S000008801
- Share class ID: C000023944
BALCX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of American Balanced Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Capital Group Central Cash Fund | 4.41% |
| Broadcom, Inc. | 4.37% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | 3.02% |
| Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund | 2.59% |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | 2.55% |
| Philip Morris International, Inc. | 2.27% |
| Alphabet, Inc. | 2.13% |
| Microsoft Corp. | 1.69% |
| NVIDIA Corp. | 1.56% |
| Eli Lilly And Co. | 1.47% |
BALCX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of American Balanced Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 64.5% |
| Fixed Income | 22.1% |
| Securitized | 10.1% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 4.4% |
| Real Estate | 0.1% |
BALCX Performance
Total returns for BALCX (as of 2026-09-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 9.7% |
| 1 year | 19.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 16.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 8.9% |
BALCX Risk Information
Risk metrics for BALCX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.7%
BALCX Costs and Fees
BALCX costs about $130 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.30%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.30%
- Portfolio turnover: 104%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.64 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
BALCX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, American Balanced Fund had net inflows of $6.18B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$208.70M |
| 2026-05 | −$807.89M |
| 2026-04 | −$3.49B |
| 2026-03 | −$18.04M |
| 2026-02 | −$183.26M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.08B |
BALCX Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of American Balanced Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 0.75% |
| United States Treasury | 0.63% |
| United States Treasury | 0.58% |
| United States Treasury | 0.52% |
| United States Treasury | 0.50% |
| United States Treasury | 0.35% |
| United States Treasury | 0.32% |
| United States Treasury | 0.29% |
| United States Treasury | 0.29% |
| United States Treasury | 0.29% |
BALCX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official American Balanced Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-02-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-16
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-17
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.