what are the definitions of growth, value, and blend fund?

Answer 1

A growth fund is comprised of investments that typically have relatively high valuations and whose underlying business is expected to grow very rapidly. A value fund is comprised of investments that have relatively low valuations and whose underlying business is not expected to grow quickly. A blended fund is comprised of both growth and value investments.

In stock investments, one of the most widely used metrics used to differentiate growth and value stocks is the price-earnings (P/E) ratio. Growth stocks typically have high P/E ratios and value stocks typically have low P/E ratios.

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Answer 2

Different screeners have different opinions at the cutoff. Generally anything resembling a company in the SP 500 is value (often called blue chips from poker which mark the highest value), anything resembling a company in the Russel 2000 (small caps) is a growth stock. A blend could be companies resembling both (for instance a mutual fund on energy could be buying stock in every big or small company that deals with energy).