Summary
American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bd Fd Cl F-1 Shs 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
- 0.62%
- Fund size
- $2.42B
- Dividend yield
- 1.99%
- Running since
- 2009
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $2.42B under management.
- It has been running since 2009.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.62% 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
- -0.2%
- 3 months
- -1.3%
- This year
- -1.7%
- 1 year
- -1.8%
- 3 years
- +2.9%
- 5 years
- -3.6%
- 10 years
- -2.4%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $62.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,964
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $62.00 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 $2,964.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -0.2%
- Deepest drop
- -7.1%
- Yearly volatility
- 1.5%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 0.2%. Deepest drop in these years: 7.1% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 1.99%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.02
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.20 per share, which is 1.99% of today's price. The last payment was $0.02 on Apr 30, 2026.