DWS Small Cap Growth Fund

C000113854 Fund Overview

DWS Small Cap Growth Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Deutsche Dws Investment Trust, categorised as United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: Deutsche Dws Investment Trust
• Category: United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity
• Assets under management: $308.09M
• 1-year return: 10.1%
• SEC CIK: 0000088064
• SEC series ID: S000031150
• Share class ID: C000113854

C000113854 Investment Objective and Strategy

DWS Small Cap Growth Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Deutsche Dws Investment Trust.

Investment objective

The fund seeks long-term capital growth.

Principal investment strategy

"Main investments. Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets, determined at the time of purchase, in stocks and other securities with equity characteristics of US smaller capitalization companies. For purposes of this 80% investment limitation, the term assets is defined as net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, and the small capitalization equity universe is defined as the bottom 20% of the total domestic equity market capitalization (at the time of initial investment), using a minimum market capitalization of $10 million. As of December 31, 2017, companies in which the fund typically invests have a market capitalization range of between $14 million and $12.1 billion. The fund may also invest in other types of equity securities such as preferred stocks or convertible securities.

The fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in the stocks of non-US companies, including those in emerging markets, and large capitalization stocks. Management process. In choosing stocks, portfolio management focuses on individual security selection rather than industry selection. Portfolio management uses an active process that combines financial analysis with company visits to evaluate management and strategies. Company research is significant to the investment process. Portfolio management uses a ""bottom-up"" approach to picking securities, focusing on stocks that it believes have superior growth prospects and above average intermediate to long-term performance potential. Portfolio management emphasizes individual selection of small company stocks across all economic sectors, early in their growth cycles and which portfolio management believes to have the potential to be the blue chips of the future.

Portfolio management generally seeks companies it believes have a leading or dominant position in their niche markets, a high rate of return on invested capital and the ability to finance a major part of future growth from internal sources. Portfolio management also looks for estimated above-average growth in revenues and earnings and a balance sheet that portfolio management believes can support this growth potential with sufficient working capital and manageable levels of debt. Portfolio management follows a disciplined selling process that seeks to lessen risk, and will normally sell a stock when its price reaches portfolio management's expectations, portfolio management believes there is a material change in the company's fundamentals, other investments offer better opportunities or in an effort to readjust the weighted average market capitalization of the fund.

Securities Lending. The fund may lend securities (up to one-third of total assets) to approved institutions."

C000113854 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of DWS Small Cap Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000113854 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of DWS Small Cap Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000113854 Performance

Total returns for C000113854 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000113854 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000113854, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 19.4%

C000113854 Costs and Fees

C000113854 costs about $151 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.51%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.60%
• Portfolio turnover: 12%
• Brokerage commissions: 1.49 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000113854 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, DWS Small Cap Growth Fund had net outflows of $19.74M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000113854 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in DWS Small Cap Growth Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000113854 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official DWS Small Cap Growth Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-01-27
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-01-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-01-26
• 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 2025-12-12
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-12-10

Related Funds

Other United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (IJR)
• iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)
• Fidelity Small Cap Index Fund (FSSNX)
• Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF (SCHA)
• U.s. Small Cap Portfolio (DFSTX)

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.