Franklin Growth Fund
Franklin Custodian Funds · Series S000006755 · 5 share classes
data updated 2026-09-08
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
Capital appreciation.
The fund pursues capital appreciation by selecting large and medium-cap U.S. equities that the manager believes are positioned for above-average growth, using bottom-up fundamental analysis of factors including revenue and earnings potential, management quality, and competitive positioning. The fund may invest up to 25% of assets in smaller companies and may concentrate significantly in sectors such as information technology, industrials, and health care based on economic conditions. Because security selection depends on the manager's assessments of individual companies, fund performance will diverge from broad market returns.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| FKGRX | 0.78% |
| FRGSX | 1.53% |
| FCGAX | 0.52% |
| FGSRX | 1.03% |
| FIFRX | 0.46% |
Portfolio turnover 8.28% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 97.52% |
| Cash & short-term | 2.54% |
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +25.96% | +65.14% | +52.84% | 14.37% | -9.52% | |
| +25.01% | +61.46% | +47.22% | 14.37% | -9.70% | |
| +26.26% | +66.36% | +54.75% | 14.37% | -9.47% | |
| +25.64% | +63.90% | +50.96% | 14.36% | -9.58% | |
| +26.36% | +66.74% | +55.37% | 14.38% | -9.45% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 8.15pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.63pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
May 2026 and Jun 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | NVIDIA Corp.NVDA | 8.53% | $200.09 | $1.49B | 7.4M |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corp.MSFT | 5.27% | $373.02 | $919.15M | 2.5M |
| AMZN | Amazon.com, Inc.AMZN | 4.91% | $238.34 | $856.43M | 3.6M |
| AAPL | Apple, Inc.AAPL | 3.60% | $289.36 | $627.04M | 2.2M |
| GOOG | Alphabet, Inc.GOOG | 3.44% | $353.33 | $599.90M | 1.7M |
| GOOGL | Alphabet, Inc.GOOGL | 3.36% | $357.37 | $585.28M | 1.6M |
| APH | Amphenol Corp.APH | 3.30% | $176.32 | $575.79M | 3.3M |
| AVGO | Broadcom, Inc.AVGO | 3.30% | $377.75 | $574.99M | 1.5M |
| INFXX | Franklin Institutional U.S. Government Money Market FundINFXX | 2.54% | — | $442.12M | — |
| LLY | Eli Lilly & Co.LLY | 2.01% | $1,199.43 | $350.63M | 292.3K |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-06-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 40.26% of net assets, top 25 63.81%, across 78 issuers.
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