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U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio

mutual fund
DSCGX
Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$28.81 +0.38 +1.34%
primary theme
U.S. Small-Cap Growth Equity
share class
DSCGX (Mutual Fund)

U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio

Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$28.81 +0.38 +1.34%
primary theme
U.S. Small-Cap Growth Equity
share class
DSCGX (Mutual Fund)

U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio

Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$28.81 +0.38 +1.34%
primary theme
U.S. Small-Cap Growth Equity
share class

Name

As of 10/04/2024

Price

Aum/Mkt Cap

YIELD

Annualized forward dividend yield. Multiplies the most recent dividend payout amount by its frequency and divides by the previous close price.

Exp Ratio

Expense ratio is the fund’s total annual operating expenses, including management fees, distribution fees, and other expenses, expressed as a percentage of average net assets.

Watchlist

$28.81

$1.34 B

0.62%

$0.18

0.32%

Vitals

YTD Return

13.8%

1 yr return

29.6%

3 Yr Avg Return

6.7%

5 Yr Avg Return

13.4%

Net Assets

$1.34 B

Holdings in Top 10

21.1%

52 WEEK LOW AND HIGH

$28.4
N/A
N/A

Expenses

OPERATING FEES

Expense Ratio 0.32%

SALES FEES

Front Load N/A

Deferred Load N/A

TRADING FEES

Turnover 29.00%

Redemption Fee N/A


Min Investment

Standard (Taxable)

$0

IRA

N/A


Fund Classification

Fund Type

Open End Mutual Fund


Name

As of 10/04/2024

Price

Aum/Mkt Cap

YIELD

Annualized forward dividend yield. Multiplies the most recent dividend payout amount by its frequency and divides by the previous close price.

Exp Ratio

Expense ratio is the fund’s total annual operating expenses, including management fees, distribution fees, and other expenses, expressed as a percentage of average net assets.

Watchlist

$28.81

$1.34 B

0.62%

$0.18

0.32%

DSCGX - Profile

Distributions

  • YTD Total Return 13.8%
  • 3 Yr Annualized Total Return 6.7%
  • 5 Yr Annualized Total Return 13.4%
  • Capital Gain Distribution Frequency Annually
  • Net Income Ratio 0.64%
DIVIDENDS
  • Dividend Yield 0.6%
  • Dividend Distribution Frequency Quarterly

Fund Details

  • Legal Name
    U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio
  • Fund Family Name
    Dimensional Funds
  • Inception Date
    Dec 20, 2012
  • Shares Outstanding
    N/A
  • Share Class
    Instl
  • Currency
    USD
  • Domiciled Country
    US
  • Manager
    Jed Fogdall

Fund Description

To achieve the U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio’s investment objective, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (the “Advisor”) implements an integrated investment approach that combines research, portfolio design, portfolio management, and trading functions. As further described below, the Portfolio’s design emphasizes long-term drivers of expected returns identified by the Advisor’s research, while balancing risk through broad diversification across companies and sectors. The Advisor’s portfolio management and trading processes further balance those long-term drivers of expected returns with shorter-term drivers of expected returns and trading costs.

The U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio, using a market capitalization weighted approach, is designed to purchase a broad and diverse group of readily marketable securities of U.S. small cap companies that the Advisor determines to have high profitability and high relative prices compared to other U.S. small cap companies at the time of purchase.

A company’s market capitalization is the number of its shares outstanding times its price per share. Under a market capitalization weighted approach, companies with higher market capitalizations generally represent a larger proportion of the Portfolio than companies with relatively lower market capitalizations. Securities are considered higher relative price (growth) stocks primarily because a company’s shares have a high price in relation to their book value (a “price to book ratio”) when compared with other U.S. small cap companies. The Portfolio may emphasize certain stocks, including smaller capitalization companies, lower relative price stocks, and/or higher profitability stocks as compared to their representation in the small-cap growth segment of the U.S. market. In assessing relative price, the Advisor may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios. An equity issuer is considered to have high profitability because it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets. The criteria the Advisor uses for assessing relative price and profitability are subject to change from time to time.

As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio will invest at least 80% of its net assets in securities of small cap U.S. companies. As of the date of this Prospectus, for purposes of the Portfolio, the Advisor considers small cap companies to be companies whose market capitalizations are generally in the lowest 10% of total market capitalization or companies whose market capitalizations are smaller than the 1,000th largest U.S. company, whichever results in the higher market capitalization break. Total market capitalization is based on the market capitalization of eligible U.S. operating companies listed on a securities exchange in the United States that is deemed appropriate by the Advisor. Under the Advisor’s market capitalization guidelines described above, based on market capitalization data as of December 31, 2023, the market capitalization of a small cap company would be below $9,960 million. This threshold will change due to market conditions.

The Advisor may also increase or reduce the U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio’s exposure to an eligible company, or exclude a company, based on shorter-term considerations, such as a company’s price momentum, short-run reversals, and investment characteristics. In assessing a company’s investment characteristics, the Advisor considers ratios such as recent changes in assets divided by total assets. The criteria the Advisor uses for assessing a company’s investment characteristics are subject to change from time to time. In addition, the Advisor seeks to reduce trading costs using a flexible trading approach that looks for opportunities to participate in the available market liquidity, while managing turnover and explicit transaction costs.

The U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio may purchase or sell futures contracts and options on futures contracts for U.S. equity securities and indices, to increase or decrease equity market exposure based on actual or expected cash inflows to or outflows from the Portfolio.

The U.S. Small Cap Growth Portfolio may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income.

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DSCGX - Performance

Return Ranking - Trailing

Period DSCGX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
YTD 13.8% -12.1% 50.2% 37.14%
1 Yr 29.6% 5.7% 54.2% 52.17%
3 Yr 6.7%* -20.2% 59.8% 3.31%
5 Yr 13.4%* -2.2% 47.9% 10.81%
10 Yr 10.6%* 1.8% 24.9% 25.06%

* Annualized

Return Ranking - Calendar

Period DSCGX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
2023 20.3% -20.5% 54.6% 16.36%
2022 -20.9% -82.1% 32.2% 7.17%
2021 16.6% -90.6% 300.1% 5.57%
2020 18.4% -63.0% 127.9% 83.85%
2019 24.5% -7.7% 42.9% 38.74%

Total Return Ranking - Trailing

Period DSCGX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
YTD 13.8% -12.1% 50.2% 37.14%
1 Yr 29.6% 5.7% 54.2% 52.17%
3 Yr 6.7%* -20.2% 59.8% 3.31%
5 Yr 13.4%* -2.2% 47.9% 10.81%
10 Yr 10.6%* 1.8% 24.9% 25.06%

* Annualized

Total Return Ranking - Calendar

Period DSCGX Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
2023 21.2% -19.0% 136.8% 15.27%
2022 -17.8% -59.9% 44.3% 7.17%
2021 25.9% -22.7% 411.9% 6.68%
2020 19.3% 1.5% 150.8% 92.88%
2019 26.2% 5.5% 55.3% 66.40%

NAV & Total Return History


DSCGX - Holdings

Concentration Analysis

DSCGX Category Low Category High DSCGX % Rank
Net Assets 1.34 B 214 K 34.3 B 36.59%
Number of Holdings 579 7 1226 3.80%
Net Assets in Top 10 282 M 52.5 K 3.24 B 41.67%
Weighting of Top 10 21.11% 7.9% 100.0% 61.71%

Top 10 Holdings

  1. DFA Investment Trust Co. 8.15%
  2. DFA Short Term Investment Fund 7.86%
  3. Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. 0.88%
  4. Eagle Materials, Inc. 0.68%
  5. Louisiana-Pacific Corp. 0.62%
  6. Graphic Packaging Holding Co. 0.62%
  7. Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc. 0.59%
  8. Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. 0.59%
  9. Installed Building Products, Inc. 0.57%
  10. Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. 0.56%

Asset Allocation

Weighting Return Low Return High DSCGX % Rank
Stocks
107.62% 85.75% 107.62% 0.18%
Cash
8.37% 0.00% 28.78% 7.97%
Other
0.01% -0.26% 6.70% 31.34%
Preferred Stocks
0.00% 0.00% 4.63% 13.41%
Convertible Bonds
0.00% 0.00% 1.57% 20.65%
Bonds
0.00% 0.00% 3.83% 20.47%

Stock Sector Breakdown

Weighting Return Low Return High DSCGX % Rank
Industrials
25.21% 0.00% 36.64% 5.80%
Consumer Cyclical
18.26% 0.00% 24.04% 5.62%
Technology
17.39% 2.91% 75.51% 85.33%
Healthcare
13.05% 0.00% 47.90% 91.12%
Financial Services
7.14% 0.00% 42.95% 46.92%
Consumer Defense
5.79% 0.00% 13.56% 19.02%
Basic Materials
5.20% 0.00% 9.24% 8.70%
Communication Services
3.57% 0.00% 15.31% 26.63%
Energy
3.46% 0.00% 55.49% 36.05%
Real Estate
0.91% 0.00% 15.31% 65.22%
Utilities
0.03% 0.00% 5.57% 32.43%

Stock Geographic Breakdown

Weighting Return Low Return High DSCGX % Rank
US
107.62% 17.30% 107.62% 0.18%
Non US
0.00% 0.00% 77.12% 38.77%

DSCGX - Expenses

Operational Fees

DSCGX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Expense Ratio 0.32% 0.05% 23.20% 97.46%
Management Fee 0.28% 0.05% 1.62% 3.99%
12b-1 Fee N/A 0.00% 1.00% N/A
Administrative Fee N/A 0.01% 0.40% 0.91%

Sales Fees

DSCGX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Front Load N/A 3.50% 5.75% N/A
Deferred Load N/A 1.00% 5.00% N/A

Trading Fees

DSCGX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Max Redemption Fee N/A 1.00% 2.00% N/A

Related Fees

Turnover provides investors a proxy for the trading fees incurred by mutual fund managers who frequently adjust position allocations. Higher turnover means higher trading fees.

DSCGX Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Turnover 29.00% 3.00% 439.00% 20.66%

DSCGX - Distributions

Dividend Yield Analysis

DSCGX Category Low Category High DSCGX % Rank
Dividend Yield 0.62% 0.00% 6.91% 8.70%

Dividend Distribution Analysis

DSCGX Category Low Category High Category Mod
Dividend Distribution Frequency Quarterly Annual Annual Annual

Net Income Ratio Analysis

DSCGX Category Low Category High DSCGX % Rank
Net Income Ratio 0.64% -2.47% 1.10% 2.20%

Capital Gain Distribution Analysis

DSCGX Category Low Category High Capital Mode
Capital Gain Distribution Frequency Annually Annually Annually Annually

Distributions History

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DSCGX - Fund Manager Analysis

Managers

Jed Fogdall


Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Dec 20, 2012

9.45

9.5%

Jed S. Fogdall is a Co-Head of Portfolio Management and Vice President of Dimensional and a member of Dimensional’s Investment Committee. Mr. Fogdall has an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BS from Purdue University. Mr. Fogdall joined Dimensional as a Portfolio Manager in 2004 and has been responsible for international portfolios since 2010 and domestic portfolios since 2012.

Joel Schneider


Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Feb 28, 2017

5.25

5.3%

Mr. Schneider is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Vice President of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. Mr. Schneider holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MS from the University of Minnesota, and a BS from Iowa State University. Mr. Schneider joined Dimensional in 2011, has been a portfolio manager since 2013.

Marc Leblond


Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Feb 28, 2020

2.25

2.3%

Mr. Leblond is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Vice President of Dimensional. He joined Dimensional in 2015. Prior to joining Dimensional, Mr. Leblond was an associate at Duchossois Capital Management from June to December 2014.

Tenure Analysis

Category Low Category High Category Average Category Mode
0.08 30.44 9.12 5.25