Summary
American Funds Short-Term Bond Fund of America;F1 is a mutual fund run by Capital Group. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day.
- Yearly costs
- 0.67%
- Fund size
- $12.9B
- Dividend yield
- 2.50%
- Running since
- 2006
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $12.9B under management.
- It has been running since 2006.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.67% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.27%).
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- +0.4%
- 3 months
- -0.9%
- This year
- -2.5%
- 1 year
- -2.4%
- 3 years
- +0.1%
- 5 years
- -6.0%
- 10 years
- -6.0%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $67.00
- Over 20 years
- $3,189
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $67.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $3,189.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -0.6%
- Deepest drop
- -7.4%
- Yearly volatility
- 1.6%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 0.6%. Deepest drop in these years: 7.4% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.50%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.03
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.23 per share, which is 2.50% of today's price. The last payment was $0.03 on Apr 30, 2026.