15 important things you should know about American Beacon ABCYX mutual fund

Updated: December 27, 2020

Bull Case

3-year return above the benchmark
5-year return above the benchmark
No sales load or distribution fees

Bear Case

Low net assets
High expense ratio

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In this ABCYX mutual fund review, we’ll address key questions our readers have been asking us about this fund, above and beyond what you can find in its prospectus, and on Morningstar or Yahoo Finance.

Here is what you’ll be able to find in this review:

Fact Sheet: ABCYX performance, returns, expense ratio, holdings and dividend yield;
Analysis: ABCYX buy or sell; the pros and cons of investing in ABCYX mutual fund;
Alternatives: other ETFs and mutual funds you should consider as alternatives to ABCYX.

And here is the list of questions we’ll answer:

Describe American Beacon Funds: American Beacon The London Company Income Equity Fund; Class Y Shares (ABCYX).
What are ABCYX holdings?
What is ABCYX performance? What are ABCYX historical returns?
How many up and down years did ABCYX have historically?
What is ABCYX dividend yield?
What is ABCYX minimum initial investment amount?
What is ABCYX expense ratio?
Does ABCYX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?
What is ABCYX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?
What is ABCYX beta? How would you assess ABCYX risk?
What is ABCYX Sharpe ratio?
What is ABCYX Finny Score? ABCYX buy or sell?
What are the pros of investing in ABCYX? What are ABCYX buy reasons?
What are the cons of investing in ABCYX? What are ABCYX sell reasons?

So let’s start. Scroll down to the question that interests you the most.

Fact Sheet

1. Describe American Beacon Funds: American Beacon The London Company Income Equity Fund; Class Y Shares (ABCYX).

The Fund seeks providing current income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. The Funds investment sub-advisor, emphasizes investments in profitable, financially stable, core companies that focus on generating high dividend income, are run by shareholder-oriented management at reasonable valuations.

2. What are ABCYX top holdings?

ABCYX has 31 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.

The top 10 holdings represent 44.83% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:

Name	Symbol	% Assets
Future on S&P 500 Dec20	N/A	5.65%
State Street Instl US Govt MMkt Slct	GVSXX	5.60%
Apple Inc	AAPL	4.85%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class B	BRK.B	4.55%
Lowe's Companies Inc	LOW	4.38%
Texas Instruments Inc	TXN	4.20%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	4.16%
Microsoft Corp	MSFT	4.05%
United Parcel Service Inc Class B	UPS	3.77%
Norfolk Southern Corp	NSC	3.62%

3. What is ABCYX performance? What are ABCYX historical returns?

ABCYX has generated the following returns:

1-month return is 3.28%;
3-month return is 8.66%;
1-year return is 7.60%;
3-year return is 9.87%;
5-year return is 11.23%.

4. How many up and down years did ABCYX have historically?

In the last 10 years, ABCYX had 8 up years and 2 down years.

5. What is ABCYX dividend yield?

ABCYX yield is 1.77%.

6. What is ABCYX minimum initial investment amount?

ABCYX minimum initial investment amount is $100.00K.

7. What is ABCYX expense ratio?

ABCYX expense ratio is 0.81%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.

8. Does ABCYX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?

ABCYX 12b-1 distribution fee is 0. ABCYX front-end sales load is 0. ABCYX back-end sales load is 0.

9. What is ABCYX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?

1-year ax cost ratio is 2.22%;
3-year ax cost ratio is 1.44%.

10. What is ABCYX beta? How would you assess ABCYX risk?

3-year beta is 0.90;
5-year beta is 0.88.

11. What is ABCYX Sharpe ratio?

3-year Sharpe ratio is 0.45;
5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.56.

Analysis

12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?

Finny Score is 60. Our quantitative analysis shows 3 reasons to buy and 2 reasons to sell it, resulting in the Finny Score of 60.

13. What are the pros of investing in ABCYX? What are ABCYX buy reasons?

The following are ABCYX strengths from our perspective:

ABCYX 3-year return is 9.87%, which is higher than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 1000 Value TR USD), 5.61%.
ABCYX 5-year return is 11.23%, which is higher than the 5-year return of the benchmark index (Russell 1000 Value TR USD), 9.96%.
Good news: this fund does not have 12b1, front-end or back-end sales fees.

14. What are the cons of investing in ABCYX? What are ABCYX negatives?

The following are ABCYX weaknesses from our perspective:

ABCYX net assets are $847.20 million. This fund is not a popular choice with retail investors.
ABCYX expense ratio is 0.81%, which is not negligible. Is the fund expensive to you, and does it align to your investment strategy?

In the ABCYX review, we covered ABCYX key stats (return, performance, yield, expense ratio, and holdings), buy and sell analysis, and alternative investments. If this review was helpful to you, feel free to check out other mutual fund and ETF reviews.