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NT Disciplined Growth - TF NT Disciplined Growth - TF Schedule of Investments as of 2021-06-30 (Unaudited) Holding Shares/Principal Amount Market Value ($) Microsoft Corp 242,872 65,794,025 Apple Inc 430,121 58,909,372 Amazon.com Inc 11,141 38,326,823 Facebook Inc 95,343 33,151,715 Alphabet Inc 12,253 29,919,253 NVIDIA Corp 25,003 20,004,900 Adobe Inc 26,003 15,228,397 Home Depot Inc/The 45,086 14,377,475 QUALCOMM Inc 92,506 13,221,883 Starbucks Corp 115,423 12,905,446 Visa Inc 54,683 12,785,979 PayPal Holdings Inc 42,890 12,501,577 Tesla Inc 18,012 12,242,756 Mastercard Inc 32,742 11,953,777 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc 21,103 11,786,870 AbbVie Inc 101,386 11,420,119 Eli Lilly & Co 38,378 8,808,519 IDEXX Laboratories Inc 12,721 8,033,948 Intuit Inc 16,220 7,950,557 ServiceNow Inc 14,159 7,781,078 NIKE Inc 50,294 7,769,920 Broadcom Inc 16,014 7,636,116 Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp 81,235 6,919,597 Texas Instruments Inc 35,799 6,884,148 Intuitive Surgical Inc 7,441 6,843,041 Applied Materials Inc 45,424 6,468,378 Ross Stores Inc 47,947 5,945,428 Etsy Inc 25,751 5,300,586 Palo Alto Networks Inc 14,257 5,290,060 Autodesk Inc 17,794 5,194,069 Edwards Lifesciences Corp 49,735 5,151,054 Old Dominion Freight Line Inc 20,221 5,132,090 Cadence Design Systems Inc 36,353 4,973,817 Netflix Inc 9,406 4,968,343 Align Technology Inc 7,922 4,840,342 Moody's Corp 12,911 4,678,559 Cognex Corp 55,409 4,657,126 MSCI Inc 8,689 4,631,932 Boston Beer Co Inc/The 4,496 4,589,517 Domino's Pizza Inc 9,708 4,528,685 Estee Lauder Cos Inc/The 14,008 4,455,665 Advanced Micro Devices Inc 46,151 4,334,963 Oshkosh Corp 34,285 4,273,282 Workday Inc 17,709 4,227,847 Electronic Arts Inc 28,136 4,046,801 Micron Technology Inc 45,713 3,884,691 Veeva Systems Inc 12,146 3,776,799 Accenture PLC 12,523 3,691,655 EPAM Systems Inc 7,096 3,625,772 NT Disciplined Growth - TF Holding Shares/Principal Amount Market Value ($) Alphabet Inc-CL C 1,425 3,571,506 Ulta Beauty Inc 10,322 3,569,038 American Tower Corp 13,147 3,551,531 Atlassian Corp PLC 13,735 3,527,972 Keysight Technologies Inc 22,047 3,404,277 Arista Networks Inc 9,327 3,379,265 TJX Cos Inc/The 49,187 3,316,188 DocuSign Inc 11,698 3,270,410 Fortinet Inc 13,019 3,100,996 Lululemon Athletica Inc 8,157 2,977,060 Simon Property Group Inc 22,671 2,958,112 Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 11,607 2,916,955 Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc 1,859 2,882,082 Box Inc 109,817 2,805,824 NXP Semiconductors NV 13,160 2,707,275 Zscaler Inc 12,037 2,600,714 Monolithic Power Systems Inc 6,824 2,548,423 Cerner Corp 32,045 2,504,637 Yum China Holdings Inc 36,793 2,437,536 CoStar Group Inc 28,750 2,381,075 Williams-Sonoma Inc 14,448 2,306,623 Gartner Inc 9,521 2,305,986 Acuity Brands Inc 11,918 2,229,024 ABIOMED Inc 7,089 2,212,548 IQVIA Holdings Inc 8,976 2,175,064 Crown Castle International Corp 10,752 2,097,715 Moderna Inc 8,834 2,075,813 Hologic Inc 29,656 1,978,648 Mettler-Toledo International Inc 1,424 1,972,724 Jacobs Engineering Group Inc 14,338 1,912,976 Toro Co/The 16,921 1,859,279 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 9,185 1,851,972 SVB Financial Group 3,276 1,822,865 A O Smith Corp 23,889 1,721,441 Magna International Inc 17,791 1,648,932 Teradyne Inc 12,120 1,623,595 Laboratory Corp of America Holdings 498 137,373 This schedule of investments provides information about the fund's portfolio holdings as of the date on the schedule. It is unaudited, and American Century assumes no obligation to update or supplement the schedule to reflect subsequent changes. More information is available in the fund's most recent annual or semiannual shareholder report..
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