U.S. Growth Fund
John Hancock Funds III · 7 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
U.S. Growth Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund. 35% of JSGAX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 97% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Features
- Non-diversified
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q3
To seek long-term capital appreciation.
The fund invests in U.S.-tied equity securities selected for high quality free cash flow margins, capital returns, and revenue growth that exceed minimum thresholds, ranked by quality, growth, valuation, capital returns, and earnings revisions; the manager seeks to outperform the Russell 1000 Growth Index. Because the fund is non-diversified, it may invest in a smaller number of issuers and concentrate more assets in individual securities than a diversified fund. Active trading may result in higher transaction costs and capital gains tax liabilities than a buy-and-hold approach.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| JSGAX | 0.97% | 0.96% |
| JSGIX | 0.72% | 0.71% |
| JSGBX | 0.60% | — |
| JSGCX | 1.72% | 1.71% |
| JSGRX | 1.11% | 1.10% |
| JHSGX | 0.96% | 0.85% |
| JSGTX | 0.61% | 0.60% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 80.00% · as of 2025 Q3
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.61% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.33% |
Look-through blends 1 underlying fund; 0.0% of NAV was not looked through and stays direct-classified. The blend is as of 2026Q1, one or more quarters before the direct holdings (2026Q2).
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Information Technology | 50.2% |
| Communication Services | 11.4% |
| Consumer Discretionary | 9.2% |
| Health Care | 9.1% |
| 9 smaller | 20.2% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Portfolio growth profile
How much of the fund’s stock holdings are in fast-growing companies · as of 2026 Q2
Share of the fund’s equity (by value) in companies whose trailing five-year revenue — or net-income — growth ranks in the top 25% of U.S. public companies. Foreign and newly-listed holdings are excluded, so the figure covers only part of the book. From SEC filings — not investment advice. How we measure this.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +30.59% | +99.69% | +86.87% | 17.68% | -10.87% | |
| +30.95% | +101.20% | +89.26% | 17.68% | -10.83% | |
| +31.04% | +101.75% | +90.26% | 17.64% | -10.85% | |
| +29.66% | +95.20% | +79.99% | 17.69% | -11.00% | |
| +30.41% | +98.83% | +85.60% | 17.65% | -10.92% | |
| +30.71% | +100.47% | +88.20% | 17.68% | -10.89% | |
| +31.08% | +101.77% | +90.28% | 17.69% | -10.84% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 10.29pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 2.06pp 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 CorporationNVDA | 12.59% | $200.09 | $427.03M | 2.1M |
| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc.GOOGL | 9.01% | $357.37 | $305.54M | 855.0K |
| AAPL | Apple Inc.AAPL | 5.18% | $289.36 | $175.81M | 607.6K |
| AVGO | Broadcom Inc.AVGO | 4.76% | $377.75 | $161.41M | 427.3K |
| KLAC | KLA CorporationKLAC | 4.45% | $301.71 | $150.94M | 500.3K |
| LLY | Eli Lilly and CompanyLLY | 3.93% | $1,199.43 | $133.40M | 111.2K |
| TSLA | Tesla Inc.TSLA | 3.65% | $420.60 | $123.89M | 294.6K |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices Inc.AMD | 3.55% | $580.91 | $120.26M | 207.0K |
| MU | Micron Technology Inc.MU | 3.18% | $1,154.29 | $107.89M | 93.5K |
| MSFT | Microsoft CorporationMSFT | 3.05% | $373.02 | $103.35M | 277.1K |
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 53.35% of net assets, top 25 78.75%, across 49 issuers.
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