15 important things you should know about American Funds PPVAX mutual fund

Updated: July 11, 2021

Bull Case

3-year return above the benchmark
5-year return above the benchmark

Bear Case

Sales load and/or distribution fees

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Are you looking to buy or sell PPVAX? Or perhaps you’re looking for PPVAX fact sheet, and learn about its alternatives? If so, you came to the right place.

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

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

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

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

Fact Sheet

1. Describe American Funds Portfolio Series: American Funds Preservation Portfolio; Class A Shares (PPVAX).

The Fund seeks current income, consistent with preservation of capital. The Fund principally invests through bond investment with exposure to higher quality bonds with intermediate to short term durations. The Fund may, however, invest in underlying funds with exposure to lower quality, higher yielding securities.

2. What are PPVAX top holdings?

PPVAX has 0 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.

The top 2 holdings represent 100.02% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:

Name	Symbol	% Assets
American Funds Interm Bd Fd of Amer R6	RBOGX	60.01%
American Funds ST Bd Fd of Amer R6	RMMGX	40.01%

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

PPVAX has generated the following returns:

1-month return is -0.14%;
3-month return is 0.36%;
1-year return is 0.36%;
3-year return is 3.58%;
5-year return is 1.93%.

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

In the last 10 years, PPVAX had 9 up years and 1 down year.

5. What is PPVAX dividend yield?

PPVAX yield is 1.85%.

6. What is PPVAX minimum initial investment amount?

PPVAX minimum initial investment amount is $1.00K.

7. What is PPVAX expense ratio?

PPVAX expense ratio is 0.39%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.

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

PPVAX 12b-1 distribution fee is 0.3. PPVAX front-end sales load is 2.5. PPVAX back-end sales load is 0.

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

1-year ax cost ratio is 0.76%;
3-year ax cost ratio is 0.73%.

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

3-year beta is 0.38;
5-year beta is 0.42.

11. What is PPVAX Sharpe ratio?

3-year Sharpe ratio is 1.05;
5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.75.

Analysis

12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?

Finny Score is N/A. Our quantitative analysis shows 2 reasons to buy and 1 reason to sell. Finny Scores are not available if there are insufficient data points from the analysis.

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

The following are PPVAX strengths from our perspective:

PPVAX 3-year return is 3.58%, which is higher than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (Bloomberg Barclays US Government/Credit A+ 1-5 Yr TR USD), 3.53%.
PPVAX 5-year return is 1.93%, which is in line with the 5-year return of the benchmark index (Bloomberg Barclays US Government/Credit A+ 1-5 Yr TR USD), 1.99%.

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

The following are PPVAX weaknesses from our perspective:

Warning: this fund has a 12b1 and front-end sales fee. The maximum 12b1 fee is 0.3%, while the maximum front-end sales load is 2.5%. A 12b-1 fee is an annual marketing or distribution fee on a mutual fund. Front-end sales load, also known as sales charge, is a fee paid when mutual funds shares are purchased. Those fees are subtracted from your total investable assets.

In the PPVAX review, we covered PPVAX 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.