Summary
Washington Mutual Investors Fund A 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
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $210.2B
- Dividend yield
- 9.47%
- Running since
- 1952
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $210.2B under management.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.4%.
- It has been running since 1952.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.55% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.40%).
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
- +2.3%
- 3 months
- +1.6%
- This year
- +4.6%
- 1 year
- +1.2%
- 3 years
- +30%
- 5 years
- +16%
- 10 years
- +69%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $55.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,646
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $55.00 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 $2,646.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +5.4%
- Deepest drop
- -22%
- Yearly volatility
- 12%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 22% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 9.47%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.21
Over the last 12 months it paid $6.45 per share, which is 9.47% of today's price. The last payment was $0.21 on Sep 16, 2026.