Overview:

Fund data as of 09/30/2019 unless otherwise specified.

Investment Objective:

The Fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation. Any income received is incidental to this objective.

Investment Strategy:

The Fund is actively managed and invests mainly in a diversified portfolio of  U.S. companies that, at the time of purchase, are in the small capitalization range of companies comprising the Russell 2000® Index. The Fund's portfolio is not limited to the companies listed in the Russell 2000® Index and, as such, is diversified among a large number of companies across different industries and economic sectors. Because the Fund may continue to hold a security whose market capitalization increase or decreases over time, a portion of the Fund's holdings may have market capitalizations outside the range of the Russell 2000® Index at any given time.

Investment Suitability:

This Fund may be suitable for investors who seek higher, long-term rates of return, can accept significant short-term fluctuations in account value, want to invest in stocks of small to medium-size U.S. companies and would like to diversify their portfolio by adding a potentially higher return, higher risk option of stocks.

Small company stocks are generally riskier than large company stocks due to greater volatility and less liquidity. This description of risks is provided as a summary of the principal investment risks associated with this mutual fund. Refer to the Fund's prospectus for more detailed risk information.

  • NASDAQ Ticker: GSCZX
  • Inception Date: 8/27/2001
Fund Size ($ in millions)
Total fund net assets for all share classes 554
Number of holdings 646

*Does not include currencies or forward currency contracts

Benchmark^
100%
Russell 2000® Index 100%
Sub-Adviser Composite
39% 25% 18% 18%
TimeSquare Capital Management 39%
Delaware Investments Fund Advisers 25%
AJO, LP 18%
Jacobs Levy Equity Management 18%

Performance

Net Asset Value (as of 1/24/2020)
Net Asset Value $15.67
Inception Date
Inception Date 8/27/2001
FEES AND EXPENSES (annualized)
Gross Expense Ratio 1.26%
Net Expense Ratio 1.26%
Daily Performance (as of 1/24/2020)
One Month -0.32%
Three Month 7.18%
Year To Date 0.06%
One Year 15.22%
Three Year* 6.93%
Five Year* 6.67%
Ten Year* 11.39%
Since Inception* 7.32%
*Returns are annualized.
The performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results.
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Quarterly Performance (as of 9/30/2019)
Fund Benchmark
Three Month -3.66% -2.40%
YTD 15.45% 14.18%
One Year -8.48% -8.89%
Three Year* 7.38% 8.23%
Five Year* 6.20% 8.18%
Ten Year* 10.96% 11.19%
Since Inception* 6.98% 8.01%
*Returns are annualized.
The performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Performance data current to the most recent month-end and complete calendar year may be obtained at GuideStoneFunds.com/Funds. The investment return of an investment will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance would have been lower without fee waivers and reimbursements to the Fund in effect. Returns exceeding 20% reflect unusual market conditions and may not be sustained at this level over the long term.
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Annual Performance (as of 9/30/2019)
Fund Benchmark
2012 15.02% 16.35%
2013 38.01% 38.82%
2014 3.89% 4.89%
2015 -5.90% -4.41%
2016 17.17% 21.31%
2017 12.67% 14.65%
2018 -12.22% -11.01%
Benchmark: Russell 2000® Index
The performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results.
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Morningstar
Morningstar Rating based upon risk-adjusted return as of 12/31/2019
Category: Small Blend
(Three Stars) Overall rating among 630 funds in this category.
(Three Stars) Three year rating among 630 funds in this category.
(Two Stars) Five year rating among 507 funds in this category.
(Three Stars) Ten year rating among 367 funds in this category.

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The Morningstar Rating™ for funds, or “star rating,” is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds and separate accounts) with at least a 3-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product’s monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its 3-, 5- and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% 3-year rating for 36–59 months of total returns, 60% 5-year rating/40% 3-year rating for 60–119 months of total returns and 50% 10-year rating/30% 5-year rating/20% 3-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent 3-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods. Ratings are for the share class shown only; other classes may vary. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Characteristics

Asset Allocation
98%
U.S. Equities 98%
Cash* 2%
Total 100%
*Cash is maintained by the Fund for liquidity purposes and may be overlaid with equity and / or U.S. Treasury futures to provide capital market exposure.

 

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Equity Sector Holdings
13.92% 25.11% 12.18% 17.29% 14.49%
Consumer Discretionary 13.92%
Consumer Staples 1.15%
Energy 2.77%
Financial Services 25.11%
Health Care 12.18%
Materials & Processing 7.34%
Producer Durables 17.29%
Technology 14.49%
Utilities 5.74%
Total 99.99%

Due to rounding, portfolio holdings data may not sum to 100%.

Top Ten Equity Holdings
j2 Global, Inc. 1.18%
Q2 Holdings, Inc. 1.12%
Paylocity Holding Corp. 0.99%
ASGN Inc 0.99%
EMCOR Group, Inc. 0.95%
TriNet Group, Inc. 0.90%
ExlService Holdings, Inc. 0.89%
WNS (Holdings) Limited Sponsored ADR 0.78%
Strategic Education, Inc. 0.74%
RealPage, Inc. 0.72%
Total 9.26%
Risk/Return Characteristics
Standard Deviation 15.94%
R-Squared 97.99%
Beta vs. Benchmark 0.98
Beta vs. S&P 500 Index 1.14
Sharpe Ratio 0.33
Information Ratio -0.87
Calculated over previous 5 years
Portfolio Characteristics
Price to Earnings Ratio 25.50x
Price to Book Ratio 3.00x
5 Year EPS Growth 13.30%
Weighted Avg Market Cap* $2,747
* $ in millions

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Portfolio composition subject to change at any time.

^ The Russell 2000 Index measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe and is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index, representing approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of that index. It includes approximately 2,000 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership. The index is completely reconstituted annually to ensure that larger stocks do not distort the performance and characteristics of the actual small-cap opportunity set. Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) is the source and owner of the trademarks, service marks and copyrights related to the Russell Indexes. Russell® is a trademark of Frank Russell Company. Neither Russell nor its licensors accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings and/or underlying data and no party may rely on any Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings and/or underlying data contained in this communication. No further distribution of Russell Data is permitted without Russell’s express written consent. Russell does not promote, sponsor or endorse the content of this communication. Index used with permission. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Price to Earnings Ratio - A ratio used to compare the price of a fund’s stocks with their per-share earnings.

Price to Book Ratio - A ratio used to compare the book value of fund’s stocks with their market value.

5 Year EPS Growth - Five-year weighted average annualized earnings growth for companies within a fund.

Weighted Average Market Cap - An index of stocks in which companies that have a greater overall market capitalization are more strongly represented than companies with smaller market capitalizations.

Standard Deviation — Depicts how widely returns varied over a certain period of time. A high standard deviation implies greater volatility and greater risk.

R-squared - Shows the percentage of a fund's performance that is explained by movements in the benchmark index. An R-squared of 100% indicates that all movements of a fund can be explained by movements in the benchmark.

Beta vs. Benchmark - Beta is a measure of a fund's sensitivity to market movements as defined by the fund's benchmark. A fund with a higher beta relative to the benchmark is more volatile than the benchmark.

Beta vs. S&P 500© Index — Beta is a measure of a fund’s sensitivity to market movements as defined by the S&P 500© Index. A fund with a higher beta relative to the S&P 500© Index is more volatile than the S&P 500© Index.

Sharpe Ratio - A risk-adjusted measure that measures reward per unit of risk. The higher the Sharpe ratio, the better the fund's historical risk adjusted performance.

Information Ratio - Measures how much the fund outperformed the benchmark per unit of additional risk taken.

Net Asset Value — The Net Asset Value (NAV) is calculated by taking the closing market value of all the investments owned by the Fund, plus all other assets such as cash, subtracting all liabilities, then dividing the result (total net assets) by the total number of shares outstanding.

Record Date — The distribution that an investor receives is calculated based on the number of shares that an investor owns on Record Date, typically using the share balance in an investor's account at the close of that day’s business.

Pay / Reinvest Date — The date on which distributions are posted to accounts for reinvestment or paid to shareholders who take distributions in cash.

Dividends — Dividends are income distributions to shareholders out of income from the fund's investments.

Short-Term Capital Gains — Distributions to shareholders derived from the profit of the sale of stocks or bonds held within the Fund for a period of one year or less.

Long-Term Capital Gains — Distributions to shareholders derived from the profit of the sale of stocks or bonds held within the Fund for a period of more than one year.