N-CSR 1 d529227dncsr.htm PRUDENTIAL JENNISON MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC. Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

 

Investment Company Act file number:    811-07811
Exact name of registrant as specified in charter:    Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.
Address of principal executive offices:    655 Broad Street, 6th Floor
     Newark, New Jersey 07102
Name and address of agent for service:    Andrew R. French
     655 Broad Street, 6th Floor
     Newark, New Jersey 07102
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:    800-225-1852
Date of fiscal year end:    8/31/2023
Date of reporting period:    8/31/2023


Item 1 – Reports to Stockholders

 


LOGO

 

PGIM JENNISON MID-CAP GROWTH FUND

 

ANNUAL REPORT

AUGUST 31, 2023

 

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

Letter from the President

       3  

Your Fund’s Performance

       4  

Growth of a $10,000 Investment

       5  

Strategy and Performance Overview

       8  

Fees and Expenses

       12  

Holdings and Financial Statements

       14  

Approval of Advisory Agreements

        

 

 

This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

The views expressed in this report and information about the Fund’s portfolio holdings are for the period covered by this report and are subject to change thereafter.

Mutual funds are distributed by Prudential Investment Management Services LLC, member SIPC. Jennison Associates LLC is a registered investment adviser. Both are Prudential Financial companies. © 2023 Prudential Financial, Inc. and its related entities. Jennison Associates, Jennison, PGIM, and the PGIM logo are service marks of Prudential Financial, Inc. and its related entities, registered in many jurisdictions worldwide.

 

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Letter from the President

 

LOGO  

Dear Shareholder:

 

We hope you find the annual report for the PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund informative and useful. The report covers performance for the 12-month period that ended August 31, 2023.

 

Although central banks raised interest rates aggressively to tame surging inflation during the period, the global economy and financial markets demonstrated resilience. Employers continued to hire, consumers continued to spend, home prices rose, and recession fears receded.

Stocks fell early in the period, bottomed in October, and then began a rally that eventually ended a bear market. Despite a banking industry crisis in March, stocks have continued to rise globally throughout 2023 as inflation cooled and the Federal Reserve slowed the pace of its rate hikes. Equities in both US and international markets posted gains during the period.

Bond market returns were mixed during the period as rising interest rates lifted yields to their highest level in two decades. US and global investment-grade bonds fell, while US high yield corporate bonds and emerging-market debt rose.

Regarding your investments with PGIM, we believe it is important to maintain a diversified portfolio of funds consistent with your tolerance for risk, time horizon, and financial goals. Your financial advisor can help you create a diversified investment plan that may include funds covering all the basic asset classes and that reflects your personal investor profile and risk tolerance. However, diversification and asset allocation strategies do not assure a profit or protect against loss in declining markets.

At PGIM Investments, we provide access to active investment strategies across the global markets in the pursuit of consistent outperformance for investors. PGIM is the world’s 14th-largest investment manager with more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management. Our scale and investment expertise allow us to deliver a diversified suite of actively managed solutions across a broad spectrum of asset classes and investment styles.

Thank you for choosing our family of funds.

Sincerely,

 

LOGO

Stuart S. Parker, President

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund

October 16, 2023

 

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Your Fund’s Performance (unaudited)

Performance data quoted represent past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the past performance data quoted. An investor may obtain performance data as of the most recent month-end by visiting our website at pgim.com/investments or by calling (800) 225-1852.

 

  

Average Annual Total Returns as of 8/31/23

 

   One Year (%)    Five Years (%)    Ten Years (%)    Since Inception (%) 

Class A

           

(with sales charges)

     6.43     8.51    9.45   

(without sales charges)

   12.63     9.74    10.07   

Class C

           

(with sales charges)

   10.64     8.88    9.26   

(without sales charges)

   11.64     8.88    9.26   

Class R

           

(without sales charges)

   12.37     9.52    9.85   

Class Z

           

(without sales charges)

   13.04    10.10    10.41   

Class R2

           

(without sales charges)

   12.60     9.71    N/A    9.97 (12/27/2017)

Class R4

           

(without sales charges)

   12.92     9.99    N/A    10.25 (12/27/2017)

Class R6

           

(without sales charges)

   13.18    10.24    10.58   

Russell Midcap Growth Index

           
   13.00     7.95    11.03   

Russell Midcap Index

           
        8.38     7.35    10.04   

 

Average Annual Total Returns as of 8/31/23 Since Inception (%)

     Class R2, Class R4 
(12/27/2017) 

Russell Midcap Growth Index

   9.46

Russell Midcap Index

   7.94

Since Inception returns are provided for any share class with less than 10 fiscal years of returns. Since Inception returns for the Indexes are measured from the closest month-end to the class’s inception date.

 

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Growth of a $10,000 Investment (unaudited)

 

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The graph compares a $10,000 investment in the Fund’s Class Z shares with a similar investment in the Russell Midcap Growth Index and the Russell Midcap Index by portraying the initial account values at the beginning of the 10-year period (August 31, 2013) and the account values at the end of the current fiscal year (August 31, 2023) as measured on a quarterly basis. For purposes of the graph, and unless otherwise indicated, it has been assumed that (a) all recurring fees (including management fees) were deducted and (b) all dividends and distributions were reinvested. The line graph provides information for Class Z shares only. As indicated in the tables provided earlier, performance for other share classes will vary due to the differing fees and expenses applicable to each share class (as indicated in the following paragraphs). Without waiver of fees and/or expense reimbursements, if any, the returns would have been lower.

Past performance does not predict future performance. Total returns and the ending account values in the graphs include changes in share price and reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions in a hypothetical investment for the periods shown. The Fund’s total returns do not reflect the deduction of income taxes on an individual’s investment. Taxes may reduce your actual investment returns on income or gains paid by the Fund or any gains you may realize if you sell your shares.

 

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Your Fund’s Performance (continued)

 

The returns in the tables do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or following the redemption of Fund shares. The average annual total returns take into account applicable sales charges, which are described for each share class in the table below.

 

   

 

Class A

 

 

Class C

 

 

Class R

 

 

Class Z

 

  Class R2 

 

  Class R4

 

  Class R6

 

         
Maximum initial sales charge   5.50% of the public offering price   None   None   None   None   None   None
         
Contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) (as a percentage of the lower of the original purchase price or the net asset value at redemption)   1.00% on sales of $1 million or more made within 12 months of purchase   1.00% on sales made within 12 months of purchase   None   None   None   None   None
         
Annual distribution and service (12b-1) fees (shown as a percentage of average daily net assets)   0.30%   1.00%   0.75% (0.50% currently)   None   0.25%   None   None
         
Shareholder service fee*   None   None   None   None   0.10%   0.10%   None

*Shareholder service fee reflects maximum allowable fees under a shareholder services plan.

Benchmark Definitions

Russell Midcap Growth Index—The Russell Midcap Growth Index is an unmanaged index which is a market value-weighted index that measures the performance of those Russell Midcap companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values.

Russell Midcap Index—The Russell Midcap Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the 800 smallest companies in the Russell 1000 Index, which represent approximately 27% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 1000 Index.

Investors cannot invest directly in an index. The returns for the Indexes would be lower if they included the effects of sales charges, operating expenses of a mutual fund, or taxes that may be paid by an investor.

 

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Presentation of Fund Holdings as of 8/31/23

 

 

 Ten Largest Holdings

   Line of Business    % of Net Assets 

Performance Food Group Co.

   Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail    2.5%

Universal Display Corp.

   Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment    2.5%

HEICO Corp.

   Aerospace & Defense    2.3%

CoStar Group, Inc.

   Real Estate Management & Development    2.2%

WEX, Inc.

   Financial Services    2.1%

Pinterest, Inc. (Class A Stock)

   Interactive Media & Services    2.0%

Hess Corp.

   Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels    2.0%

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc.

   Specialty Retail    2.0%

HubSpot, Inc.

   Software    2.0%

Trade Desk, Inc. (The) (Class A Stock)

   Media    1.9%

Holdings reflect only long-term investments and are subject to change.

 

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Strategy and Performance Overview* (unaudited)

How did the Fund perform?

The PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund’s Class Z shares returned 13.04% in the 12-month reporting period that ended August 31, 2023, outperforming the 13.00% return of the Russell Midcap Growth Index (the Index).

What were the market conditions?

The investment backdrop for growth stocks during the reporting period can be divided into two sections. In the last four months of 2022, investors remained uncertain about inflationary pressures and US Federal Reserve (Fed) policy, heightened geopolitical tension, war in Ukraine, and expectations that US economic growth would slow and could enter a recession.

 

In the first eight months of 2023, however, the economy delivered better-than-feared results, with continued—albeit moderating—growth led by resilient consumer spending amid ongoing labor market strength. As inflationary pressures eased, the Fed slowed the pace of monetary tightening, which encouraged investors, as did stronger-than-expected earnings reports. Investors appeared to be surprised that many companies were able to effectively cut their costs and reduce their head counts, enabling them to exceed Wall Street expectations. Growth companies, led by technology, rose sharply.

 

The collapse in March 2023 of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th-largest US bank by assets, was largely contained. Regulators closed several ailing banks, none of which were held by the Fund, and provided additional bank borrowing facilities and deposit guarantees. However, the underlying issue of asset/liability mismatch on many banks’ balance sheets remained unresolved.

 

Interest in artificial intelligence (AI)—catalyzed by the launch of ChatGPT in late November 2022—continued to grow through the first half of 2023. Investors expressed the greatest enthusiasm for companies supplying the foundational components to design, build, and run AI and machine-learning capabilities.

 

For the period, the consumer discretionary, industrials, and information technology sectors outpaced the Index. The consumer staples, financials, energy, healthcare, communication services, and real estate sectors advanced but lagged the Index. The utilities and materials sectors lost ground.

What worked?

Both stock selection and sector weights added value relative to the Index during the reporting period. Holdings in financials and consumer staples contributed the most to relative performance. In terms of allocation, an overweight in healthcare and an underweight in materials relative to the Index benefited relative results.

 

Top individual contributors were diversified across sectors, and included Horizon Therapeutics plc (healthcare), HubSpot Inc. (information technology), Apollo Global Management Inc. (financials), Arista Networks Inc. (information technology), and On Holding AG (consumer discretionary).

 

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Horizon Therapeutics focuses on researching, developing, and commercializing medicines that address unmet treatment needs for rare and rheumatic diseases. Shares benefited from strong sales of key treatments, especially Krystexxa and Uplinza, as well as stabilization of Tepezza sales. The position was eliminated as Jennison saw limited additional upside.

 

 

HubSpot provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses. Shares rose as the company moved upmarket and expanded its product portfolio, which now includes Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, CMS, and Operations Hub. Jennison believes its shift to a workflow platform will continue to support strong revenue growth for the next several years.

 

 

Apollo Global Management invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. Shares benefited from growth in assets under management, as well as effective containment of expenses. Apollo is part of an exclusive group of financials businesses experiencing long-term secular tailwinds (long fundraising runway, no fee pressure, and a massive total accessible market).

 

 

Arista Networks designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-frequency trading environments. Shares gained ground as the company gained market share in the core switching market, while increasing profitability.

 

 

Switzerland-based On Holding provides footwear and sports apparel. Shares benefited from accelerating brand momentum driven by strong, recent product launches. In Jennison’s view, the company has established a strong track record of consistently high growth as a global brand and faces a significant opportunity to scale profitability. It continues to enjoy strong business momentum, full-price customer engagement, and distribution expansion opportunities.

What didn’t work?

Stock selection in the industrials, information technology, and consumer discretionary sectors detracted the most from relative performance. An underweight in industrials and overweights in financials and real estate also detracted.

 

Significant individual detractors included Enphase Energy Inc. (information technology), Catalent Inc. (healthcare), Etsy Inc. (consumer discretionary), Five9 Inc. (information technology), and Paycom Software Inc. (information technology).

 

 

Shares in solar energy systems provider Enphase Energy were pressured by disappointing company guidance due to weak battery sales and share loss to competitors, as well as signs of weakening residential solar demand. Jennison eliminated the position during the reporting period.

 

 

Catalent provides integrated services, drug delivery technologies, and manufacturing solutions to help life science innovators develop and launch successful pharmaceuticals, biologics, and consumer health products. A

 

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Strategy and Performance Overview* (continued)

 

 

broad-based slowdown in the company’s Pharma, Consumer Health, and Biologics segments drove underperformance. The position was eliminated during the reporting period.

 

 

Etsy offers handmade or vintage items and craft supplies through its e-commerce website. While the company reported generally solid financial results during the period, shares were negatively affected by concerns regarding macroeconomic headwinds and discretionary spending trends. Etsy operates in a niche, differentiated, and fast-growing segment of retail as a scaled, global, two-sided marketplace for unique and creative goods. In Jennison’s view, Etsy provides an opportunity for durable high margins and increasing returns at scale in a capital-light model, with higher profitability than its e-commerce peers.

 

 

Shares in cloud contact center software provider Five9 underperformed due to macro pressure concerns on cost centers and more recently from fears of the elimination of contact centers broadly thanks to AI. Jennison likes the company as a leading, differentiated cloud contact center offering in a heavily on-premises legacy market. In Jennison’s view, the company is well positioned to produce steady share gains as business comes up for renewal.

 

 

Paycom Software delivered healthy results with both top- and bottom-line growth exceeding expectations. However, shares declined as fiscal year 2023 guidance implied a deceleration in growth against lofty expectations. Jennison believes adoption of the company’s solutions will continue to grow due to the differentiation of its single-database and user-centric approach.

Current outlook

The US economy stands in better shape than Jennison anticipated when the reporting period began. Robust employment has sustained consumer spending at a solid pace. Consumer confidence currently reflects optimism in the near term despite announced workforce reductions, interest rates at the highest levels in over a decade, and reduced credit availability in the financial system. It therefore seems likely that the slope of the economy’s slowing trajectory will remain shallower while employment remains healthy.

 

Inflationary pressures, while still evident, will likely continue to moderate.

 

Trends in technology spending, which weakened earlier last year, have begun to stabilize. A combination of easing year-over-year comparisons and the priority of digital transformation, with an emerging impetus from AI, increasingly suggests a rebound in spending and a return to longer-term investment trends moving toward the end of 2023.

 

Jennison expects to see generative AI use cases and applications spread from technology providers and developers to a wide variety of industries and companies that use these tools to increase competitive positioning through improved time to market, streamlined customer service, and accelerated efforts to harness data in

 

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increasingly sophisticated ways. Companies face a looming challenge in terms of balancing the costs of these investments against business model improvements and other priorities.

*This strategy and performance overview, which discusses what strategies or holdings (including derivatives, if applicable) affected the Fund’s performance, is compiled based on how the Fund performed relative to the Fund’s benchmark index and is viewed for performance attribution purposes at the aggregate Fund level, which in most instances will not directly correlate to the amounts disclosed in the Statement of Operations which conform to US generally accepted accounting principles.

 

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Fees and Expenses (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments and redemptions, as applicable, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees, and other Fund expenses, as applicable. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 held through the six-month period ended August 31, 2023. The example is for illustrative purposes only; you should consult the Prospectus for information on initial and subsequent minimum investment requirements.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the table on the following page provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information on this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value ÷ $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number on the first line under the heading “Expenses Paid During the Six-Month Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the table on the following page provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

The Fund’s transfer agent may charge additional fees to holders of certain accounts that are not included in the expenses shown in the table on the following page. These fees apply to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and Section 403(b) accounts. As of the close of the six-month period covered by the table, IRA fees included an annual maintenance fee of $15 per account (subject to a maximum annual maintenance fee of $25 for all accounts held by the same shareholder). Section 403(b) accounts are charged an annual $25 fiduciary maintenance fee. Some of the fees may vary in amount, or may be waived, based on your total account balance or the number of PGIM funds, including the Fund, that you own. You should consider the additional fees that were charged to your Fund account over the six-month period when you estimate the total ongoing expenses paid over the period and the impact of these fees on your ending account value, as these additional expenses are not reflected in the information

 

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provided in the expense table. Additional fees have the effect of reducing investment returns.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

       

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth

Fund

  

Beginning

 Account Value 

March 1, 2023

  

Ending

Account Value 

August 31, 2023

  

Annualized

Expense

 Ratio Based on the 

Six-Month Period

  

Expenses Paid

During the

Six-Month Period*

       

Class A

  Actual    $1,000.00    $1,080.60    1.05%    $ 5.51
       
  Hypothetical    $1,000.00    $1,019.91    1.05%    $ 5.35
       

Class C

  Actual    $1,000.00    $1,075.20    1.97%    $10.30
       
  Hypothetical    $1,000.00    $1,015.27    1.97%    $10.01
       

Class R

  Actual    $1,000.00    $1,079.30    1.22%    $ 6.39
       
  Hypothetical    $1,000.00    $1,019.06    1.22%    $ 6.21
       

Class Z

  Actual    $1,000.00    $1,081.60    0.71%    $ 3.73
       
  Hypothetical    $1,000.00    $1,021.63    0.71%    $ 3.62
       

Class R2

  Actual    $1,000.00    $1,079.50    1.08%    $ 5.66
       
  Hypothetical    $1,000.00    $1,019.76    1.08%    $ 5.50
       

Class R4

  Actual    $1,000.00    $1,081.30    0.83%    $ 4.35
       
  Hypothetical    $1,000.00    $1,021.02    0.83%    $ 4.23
       

Class R6

  Actual    $1,000.00    $1,082.50    0.60%    $ 3.15
       
    Hypothetical    $1,000.00    $1,022.18    0.60%    $ 3.06

*Fund expenses (net of fee waivers or subsidies, if any) for each share class are equal to the annualized expense ratio for each share class (provided in the table), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the 184 days in the six-month period ended August 31, 2023, and divided by the 365 days in the Fund’s fiscal year ended August 31, 2023 (to reflect the six-month period). Expenses presented in the table include the expenses of any underlying portfolios in which the Fund may invest.

 

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Schedule of Investments

as of August 31, 2023

 

 Description      Shares           Value    

LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS 98.7%

     

COMMON STOCKS

     

Aerospace & Defense 2.8%

                 

BWX Technologies, Inc.

     164,155      $ 12,108,073  

HEICO Corp.(a)

     295,714        49,889,909  
     

 

 

 
        61,997,982  

Automobile Components 1.6%

                 

Aptiv PLC*

     348,747        35,380,383  

Biotechnology 4.4%

                 

Argenx SE (Netherlands), ADR*

     77,142        38,763,083  

Exact Sciences Corp.*

     487,095        40,755,239  

Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.*

     134,214        16,241,236  
     

 

 

 
        95,759,558  

Broadline Retail 0.8%

                 

Etsy, Inc.*

     236,584        17,405,485  

Building Products 0.4%

                 

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp.

     299,643        8,875,426  

Commercial Services & Supplies 1.9%

                 

GFL Environmental, Inc. (Canada)

     1,248,790        40,460,796  

Communications Equipment 1.5%

                 

Arista Networks, Inc.*

     167,840        32,767,403  

Construction & Engineering 1.8%

                 

Quanta Services, Inc.

     128,247        26,915,198  

WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp.*

     302,885        12,424,343  
     

 

 

 
           39,339,541  

Construction Materials 1.2%

                 

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

     57,781        25,794,016  

Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail 2.5%

                 

Performance Food Group Co.*

     875,532        54,396,803  

Electrical Equipment 1.0%

                 

AMETEK, Inc.

     142,193        22,681,205  

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Schedule of Investments (continued)

as of August 31, 2023

 

 Description      Shares           Value    

COMMON STOCKS (Continued)

     

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components 5.6%

                 

Amphenol Corp. (Class A Stock)

     319,592      $ 28,245,541  

Cognex Corp.

     548,537        25,825,122  

Littelfuse, Inc.

     96,957        25,895,275  

Teledyne Technologies, Inc.*

     97,783        40,902,629  
     

 

 

 
        120,868,567  

Energy Equipment & Services 0.8%

                 

Halliburton Co.

     462,508        17,862,059  

Entertainment 1.6%

                 

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.*

     249,551        35,486,152  

Financial Services 5.6%

                 

Apollo Global Management, Inc.(a)

     385,000        33,625,900  

Shift4 Payments, Inc. (Class A Stock)*(a)

     738,812        41,957,133  

WEX, Inc.*

     232,125        45,538,283  
     

 

 

 
        121,121,316  

Food Products 1.3%

                 

Freshpet, Inc.*(a)

     289,149        21,833,641  

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.

     65,854        6,414,838  
     

 

 

 
        28,248,479  

Ground Transportation 1.4%

                 

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

     167,331        31,438,148  

Health Care Equipment & Supplies 7.7%

                 

Align Technology, Inc.*

     96,809        35,832,883  

Cooper Cos., Inc. (The)

     80,801        29,895,562  

Dexcom, Inc.*

     370,364        37,399,357  

Insulet Corp.*

     127,926        24,524,693  

STERIS PLC

     171,340        39,337,951  
     

 

 

 
        166,990,446  

Health Care Providers & Services 2.8%

                 

Molina Healthcare, Inc.*

     109,205        33,866,655  

Progyny, Inc.*

     703,062        26,252,335  
     

 

 

 
           60,118,990  

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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 Description      Shares           Value    

COMMON STOCKS (Continued)

     

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 4.1%

                 

Churchill Downs, Inc.

     202,775      $ 25,403,652  

Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.

     241,806        35,944,462  

Texas Roadhouse, Inc.

     259,838        27,049,136  
     

 

 

 
        88,397,250  

Household Durables 1.0%

                 

Lennar Corp. (Class A Stock)

     173,466        20,658,066  

Insurance 3.2%

                 

Markel Group, Inc.*

     13,445        19,884,079  

RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (Bermuda)

     159,940        30,051,127  

Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc.*

     411,885        20,079,394  
     

 

 

 
        70,014,600  

Interactive Media & Services 2.0%

                 

Pinterest, Inc. (Class A Stock)*(a)

     1,603,307        44,074,909  

IT Services 1.7%

                 

Gartner, Inc.*

     88,679        31,009,273  

Globant SA*

     32,222        6,588,432  
     

 

 

 
        37,597,705  

Life Sciences Tools & Services 2.4%

                 

Avantor, Inc.*

     863,911        18,703,673  

IQVIA Holdings, Inc.*

     153,021        34,067,065  
     

 

 

 
        52,770,738  

Media 1.9%

                 

Trade Desk, Inc. (The) (Class A Stock)*

     524,634        41,986,459  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels 3.2%

                 

Cheniere Energy, Inc.

     155,832        25,431,782  

Hess Corp.

     281,511        43,493,450  
     

 

 

 
           68,925,232  

Pharmaceuticals 1.0%

                 

Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC*

     146,072        20,940,882  

Professional Services 4.2%

                 

KBR, Inc.(a)

     462,825        28,472,994  

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund 17


Schedule of Investments (continued)

as of August 31, 2023

 

 Description      Shares       

   Value  

 

COMMON STOCKS (Continued)

     

Professional Services (cont’d.)

                 

Paycom Software, Inc.

     124,011      $ 36,563,404  

Paycor HCM, Inc.*(a)

     1,122,160        26,337,095  
     

 

 

 
        91,373,493  

Real Estate Management & Development 4.0%

                 

CBRE Group, Inc. (Class A Stock)*

     466,095        39,641,380  

CoStar Group, Inc.*

     588,045        48,213,809  
     

 

 

 
        87,855,189  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 5.8%

                 

Marvell Technology, Inc.

     679,826        39,599,865  

ON Semiconductor Corp.*(a)

     329,126        32,405,746  

Universal Display Corp.

     328,122        53,339,512  
     

 

 

 
        125,345,123  

Software 10.2%

                 

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.*

     142,837        34,343,728  

Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. (Class A Stock)*

     256,885        41,879,962  

Datadog, Inc. (Class A Stock)*

     418,095        40,337,806  

Five9, Inc.*

     220,268        15,940,795  

HubSpot, Inc.*

     78,945        43,145,021  

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.*(a)

     121,227        29,494,529  

PTC, Inc.*

     120,822        17,781,374  
     

 

 

 
           222,923,215  

Specialty Retail 4.5%

                 

Burlington Stores, Inc.*

     232,523        37,729,182  

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc.*

     45,996        43,222,441  

Tractor Supply Co.(a)

     81,635        17,837,248  
     

 

 

 
        98,788,871  

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 1.4%

                 

On Holding AG (Switzerland) (Class A Stock)*

     1,063,499        30,660,676  

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

18


 

 Description      Shares           Value    

COMMON STOCKS (Continued)

     

Trading Companies & Distributors 1.4%

                 

SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc.*

     39,016      $ 6,679,149  

Watsco, Inc.(a)

     66,165        24,120,451  
     

 

 

 
        30,799,600  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS

 

  

(cost $1,676,123,223)

        2,150,104,763  
     

 

 

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS 11.2%

     

AFFILIATED MUTUAL FUNDS

     

PGIM Core Government Money Market Fund(wi)

     43,356,511        43,356,511  

PGIM Institutional Money Market Fund

     

(cost $200,387,544; includes $199,310,633 of cash collateral for securities on loan)(b)(wi)

     200,664,604        200,564,272  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS

 

  

(cost $243,744,055)

        243,920,783  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS 109.9%

 

  

(cost $1,919,867,278)

        2,394,025,546  

Liabilities in excess of other assets (9.9)%

 

     (215,391,989
     

 

 

 

NET ASSETS 100.0%

      $  2,178,633,557  
     

 

 

 

 

 

Below is a list of the abbreviation(s) used in the annual report:

 ADR—American Depositary Receipt

 LIBOR—London Interbank Offered Rate

 SOFR—Secured Overnight Financing Rate

 

*

Non-income producing security.

(a)

All or a portion of security is on loan. The aggregate market value of such securities, including those sold and pending settlement, is $195,550,507; cash collateral of $199,310,633 (included in liabilities) was received with which the Fund purchased highly liquid short-term investments. In the event of significant appreciation in value of securities on loan on the last business day of the reporting period, the Fund may reflect a collateral value that is less than the market value of the loaned securities and such shortfall is remedied the following business day.

(b)

Represents security, or portion thereof, purchased with cash collateral received for securities on loan and includes dividend reinvestment.

(wi)

PGIM Investments LLC, the manager of the Fund, also serves as manager of the PGIM Core Government Money Market Fund and PGIM Institutional Money Market Fund, if applicable.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund 19


Schedule of Investments (continued)

as of August 31, 2023

 

Fair Value Measurements:

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below.

Level 1—unadjusted quoted prices generally in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2—quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates and yield curves, prepayment speeds, foreign currency exchange rates and other observable inputs.

Level 3—unobservable inputs for securities valued in accordance with Board approved fair valuation procedures.

The following is a summary of the inputs used as of August 31, 2023 in valuing such portfolio securities:

 

     Level 1    Level 2        

Level 3

Investments in Securities

                             

Assets

                             

Long-Term Investments

                             

Common Stocks

                             

Aerospace & Defense

     $ 61,997,982      $                  $—     

Automobile Components

       35,380,383                             

Biotechnology

       95,759,558                             

Broadline Retail

       17,405,485                             

Building Products

       8,875,426                             

Commercial Services & Supplies

       40,460,796                             

Communications Equipment

       32,767,403                             

Construction & Engineering

       39,339,541                             

Construction Materials

       25,794,016                             

Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail

       54,396,803                             

Electrical Equipment

       22,681,205                             

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

       120,868,567                             

Energy Equipment & Services

       17,862,059                             

Entertainment

       35,486,152                             

Financial Services

       121,121,316                             

Food Products

       28,248,479                             

Ground Transportation

       31,438,148                             

Health Care Equipment & Supplies

       166,990,446                             

Health Care Providers & Services

       60,118,990                             

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure

       88,397,250                             

Household Durables

       20,658,066                             

Insurance

       70,014,600                             

Interactive Media & Services

       44,074,909                             

IT Services

       37,597,705                             

Life Sciences Tools & Services

       52,770,738                             

Media

       41,986,459                             

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

       68,925,232                             

Pharmaceuticals

       20,940,882                             

Professional Services

       91,373,493                             

Real Estate Management & Development

       87,855,189                             

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

       125,345,123                             

Software

       222,923,215                             

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

20


 

     Level 1    Level 2        

Level 3

Investments in Securities (continued)

                             

Assets (continued)

                             

Long-Term Investments (continued)

                             

Common Stocks (continued)

                             

Specialty Retail

     $ 98,788,871        $—                  $—     

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods

       30,660,676                             

Trading Companies & Distributors

       30,799,600                             

Short-Term Investments

                             

Affiliated Mutual Funds

       243,920,783                             
    

 

 

      

 

 

                

 

 

      

Total

     $ 2,394,025,546      $                  $—       
    

 

 

      

 

 

           

 

 

 

Industry Classification:

The industry classification of investments and liabilities in excess of other assets shown as a percentage of net assets as of August 31, 2023 were as follows:

 

Affiliated Mutual Funds (9.1% represents investments purchased with collateral from securities on loan)

     11.2

Software

     10.2  

Health Care Equipment & Supplies

     7.7  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

     5.8  

Financial Services

     5.6  

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

     5.6  

Specialty Retail

     4.5  

Biotechnology

     4.4  

Professional Services

     4.2  

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure

     4.1  

Real Estate Management & Development

     4.0  

Insurance

     3.2  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

     3.2  

Aerospace & Defense

     2.8  

Health Care Providers & Services

     2.8  

Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail

     2.5  

Life Sciences Tools & Services

     2.4  

Interactive Media & Services

     2.0  

Media

     1.9  

Commercial Services & Supplies

     1.9  

Construction & Engineering

     1.8

IT Services

     1.7  

Entertainment

     1.6  

Automobile Components

     1.6  

Communications Equipment

     1.5  

Ground Transportation

     1.4  

Trading Companies & Distributors

     1.4  

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods

     1.4  

Food Products

     1.3  

Construction Materials

     1.2  

Electrical Equipment

     1.0  

Pharmaceuticals

     1.0  

Household Durables

     1.0  

Energy Equipment & Services

     0.8  

Broadline Retail

     0.8  

Building Products

     0.4  
  

 

 

 
     109.9  

Liabilities in excess of other assets

     (9.9
  

 

 

 
     100.0
  

 

 

 
 

 

Financial Instruments/Transactions—Summary of Offsetting and Netting Arrangements:

The Fund entered into financial instruments/transactions during the reporting period that are either offset in accordance with current requirements or are subject to enforceable master netting arrangements or similar agreements that permit offsetting. The information about offsetting and related netting arrangements for financial instruments/transactions where the legal right to set-off exists is presented in the summary below.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund 21


Schedule of Investments (continued)

as of August 31, 2023

 

Offsetting of financial instrument/transaction assets and liabilities:

 

Description    Gross Market
Value of
Recognized
Assets/(Liabilities)
   Collateral
Pledged/(Received)(1)
   Net
Amount

Securities on Loan

   $195,550,507   

$(195,550,507)

   $—  

 

(1)

Collateral amount disclosed by the Fund is limited to the market value of financial instruments/transactions.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

22


Statement of Assets and Liabilities

as of August 31, 2023

 

Assets

            

Investments at value, including securities on loan of $195,550,507:

    

Unaffiliated investments (cost $1,676,123,223)

   $ 2,150,104,763    

Affiliated investments (cost $243,744,055)

     243,920,783    

Receivable for investments sold

     4,786,046    

Receivable for Fund shares sold

     1,983,690    

Dividends receivable

     385,249    

Tax reclaim receivable

     10,704    

Prepaid expenses

     120    
  

 

 

   

Total Assets

     2,401,191,355    
  

 

 

   

Liabilities

            

Payable to broker for collateral for securities on loan

     199,310,633    

Payable for investments purchased

     13,174,580    

Payable for Fund shares purchased

     7,111,329    

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     1,598,660    

Management fee payable

     1,053,710    

Distribution fee payable

     237,221    

Affiliated transfer agent fee payable

     66,405    

Directors’ fees payable

     5,260    
  

 

 

   

Total Liabilities

     222,557,798    
  

 

 

   

Net Assets

   $ 2,178,633,557    
  

 

 

   
              

Net assets were comprised of:

    

Common stock, at par

   $ 126,589    

Paid-in capital in excess of par

     1,642,163,767    

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     536,343,201    
  

 

 

   

Net assets, August 31, 2023

   $ 2,178,633,557    
  

 

 

   

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund 23


Statement of Assets and Liabilities

as of August 31, 2023

 

Class A

                

Net asset value and redemption price per share,

    

($748,451,930 ÷ 52,681,846 shares of common stock issued and outstanding)

  $ 14.21     

Maximum sales charge (5.50% of offering price)

    0.83     
 

 

 

    

Maximum offering price to public

  $ 15.04     
 

 

 

    

Class C

                

Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share,

    

($9,936,259 ÷ 530,346 shares of common stock issued and outstanding)

  $ 18.74     
 

 

 

    

Class R

                

Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share,

    

($87,966,144 ÷ 7,428,269 shares of common stock issued and outstanding)

  $ 11.84     
 

 

 

    

Class Z

                

Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share,

    

($595,557,130 ÷ 30,356,016 shares of common stock issued and outstanding)

  $ 19.62     
 

 

 

    

Class R2

                

Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share,

    

($1,857,805 ÷ 94,390 shares of common stock issued and outstanding)

  $ 19.68     
 

 

 

    

Class R4

                

Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share,

    

($26,662,942 ÷ 1,319,331 shares of common stock issued and outstanding)

  $ 20.21     
 

 

 

    

Class R6

                

Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per share,

    

($708,201,347 ÷ 34,178,913 shares of common stock issued and outstanding)

  $ 20.72     
 

 

 

    

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

24


Statement of Operations

Year Ended August 31, 2023

 

Net Investment Income (Loss)

 

 

Income

 

Unaffiliated dividend income (net of $9,431 foreign withholding tax)

  $ 7,306,677  

Affiliated dividend income

    921,780  

Affiliated income from securities lending, net

    661,953  
 

 

 

 

Total income

    8,890,410  
 

 

 

 

Expenses

 

Management fee

    11,744,634  

Distribution fee(a)

    2,948,432  

Shareholder servicing fees(a)

    24,622  

Transfer agent’s fees and expenses (including affiliated expense of $478,805)(a)

    2,100,169  

Shareholders’ reports

    161,773  

Custodian and accounting fees

    131,661  

Registration fees(a)

    115,043  

Audit fee

    46,502  

Professional fees

    46,198  

Directors’ fees

    39,420  

Miscellaneous

    49,979  
 

 

 

 

Total expenses

    17,408,433  

Less: Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement(a)

    (17,030

 Distribution fee waiver(a)

    (212,982
 

 

 

 

Net expenses

    17,178,421  
 

 

 

 

Net investment income (loss)

    (8,288,011
 

 

 

 

Realized And Unrealized Gain (Loss) On Investments

       

Net realized gain (loss) on investment transactions (including affiliated of $62,257)

    76,851,694  

Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments (including affiliated of $(19,131))

    178,231,787  
 

 

 

 

Net gain (loss) on investment transactions

    255,083,481  
 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) In Net Assets Resulting From Operations

  $ 246,795,470  
 

 

 

 

 

(a)

Class specific expenses and waivers were as follows:

 

     Class A      Class C      Class R     Class Z      Class R2     Class R4      Class R6  

Distribution fee

     2,204,185        101,797         638,945              3,505       —          —    

Shareholder servicing fees

            —                      1,402       23,220          —    

Transfer agent’s fees and expenses

     1,210,732        27,284         125,845       677,787        2,693       35,183          20,645    

Registration fees

     26,789        12,793         8,046       31,397        5,944       5,845          24,229    

Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement

            —                      (6,776)       (10,254)         —    

Distribution fee waiver

            —         (212,982                  —          —    

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund 25


Statements of Changes in Net Assets

 

    

Year Ended

August 31,

 
  

 

 

 
     2023     2022  

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

                

Operations

    

Net investment income (loss)

   $ (8,288,011   $ (11,877,325

Net realized gain (loss) on investment transactions

     76,851,694       50,995,064  

Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments

     178,231,787       (719,933,811
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

     246,795,470       (680,816,072
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions

    

Distributions from distributable earnings

    

Class A

     (13,462,342     (313,353,305

Class C

     (138,596     (3,888,472

Class R

     (1,866,862     (42,313,219

Class Z

     (7,166,248     (182,607,940

Class R2

     (16,516     (394,367

Class R4

     (282,910     (5,326,501

Class R6

     (7,682,402     (187,635,150
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     (30,615,876     (735,518,954
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Fund share transactions (Net of share conversions)

    

Net proceeds from shares sold

     358,855,839       487,166,102  

Net asset value of shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     29,165,538       697,858,759  

Cost of shares purchased

     (473,461,801     (731,555,597
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in net assets from Fund share transactions

     (85,440,424     453,469,264  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total increase (decrease)

     130,739,170       (962,865,762

Net Assets:

                

Beginning of year

     2,047,894,387       3,010,760,149  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 2,178,633,557     $ 2,047,894,387  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

26


Financial Highlights

 

   

Class A Shares

 

                              
     

 

Year Ended August 31,

 
      2023     2022     2021     2020     2019  
   

Per Share Operating Performance(a):

                                        

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year

     $12.85       $23.79       $25.32       $29.35       $38.18  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

                                        

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.08     (0.11     (0.15     (0.10     (0.09
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment transactions      1.68       (3.99     8.28       4.84       1.46  

Total from investment operations

     1.60       (4.10     8.13       4.74       1.37  

Less Dividends and Distributions:

                                        

Distributions from net realized gains

     (0.24     (6.84     (9.66     (8.77     (10.20

Net asset value, end of year

     $14.21       $12.85       $23.79       $25.32       $29.35  

Total Return(b):

     12.63     (23.87 )%      38.68     21.73     9.98
                                          
   
Ratios/Supplemental Data:                                    

Net assets, end of year (000)

     $748,452       $755,816       $1,126,764       $925,117       $929,801  

Average net assets (000)

     $734,728       $925,727       $1,056,327       $867,188       $939,210  

Ratios to average net assets(c):

                                        

Expenses after waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.07     1.05     1.03     1.06     1.07

Expenses before waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.07     1.05     1.03     1.06     1.07

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.63 )%      (0.69 )%      (0.65 )%      (0.42 )%      (0.32 )% 

Portfolio turnover rate(d)

     38     51     71     58     31

 

(a)

Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return does not consider the effects of sales loads. Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day and a sale on the last day of each year reported and includes reinvestment of dividends and distributions, if any. Total returns may reflect adjustments to conform to GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the underlying funds in which the Fund invests.

(d)

The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements, without regard to transactions involving short-term investments, certain derivatives and in-kind transactions (if any). If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may be higher.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Financial Highlights (continued)

 

           

Class C Shares

 

                              
      Year Ended August 31,  
      2023     2022(a)     2021(a)     2020(a)     2019(a)  
   

Per Share Operating Performance(b):

                                        

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year

     $17.02       $29.48       $54.12       $79.08       $118.44  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

                                        

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.27     (0.33     (0.48     (0.60     (0.80
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment transactions      2.23       (5.29     14.48       10.72       2.24  

Total from investment operations

     1.96       (5.62     14.00       10.12       1.44  

Less Dividends and Distributions:

                                        

Distributions from net realized gains

     (0.24     (6.84     (38.64     (35.08     (40.80

Net asset value, end of year

     $18.74       $17.02       $29.48       $54.12       $79.08  

Total Return(c):

     11.64     (24.54 )%      37.57     20.95     9.19
                                          
   
Ratios/Supplemental Data:                                    

Net assets, end of year (000)

     $9,936       $10,966       $17,586       $29,633       $48,646  

Average net assets (000)

     $10,180       $13,699       $22,913       $34,773       $78,014  

Ratios to average net assets(d):

                                        

Expenses after waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.99     1.91     1.79     1.76     1.74

Expenses before waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.99     1.91     1.79     1.76     1.74

Net investment income (loss)

     (1.56 )%      (1.55 )%      (1.39 )%      (1.10 )%      (0.99 )% 

Portfolio turnover rate(e)

     38     51     71     58     31

 

(a)

The Fund had a 4-for-1 reverse stock split effective December 27, 2021. Prior year net asset values and per share amounts have been restated to reflect the impact of the reverse stock split (see Note 7 in the Notes to Financial Statements). The net asset value reported at the original dates prior to the reverse stock split were $7.37, $13.53 and $19.77 for the years ended August 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.

(b)

Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the year.

(c)

Total return does not consider the effects of sales loads. Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day and a sale on the last day of each year reported and includes reinvestment of dividends and distributions, if any. Total returns may reflect adjustments to conform to GAAP.

(d)

Does not include expenses of the underlying funds in which the Fund invests.

(e)

The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements, without regard to transactions involving short-term investments, certain derivatives and in-kind transactions (if any). If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may be higher.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Class R Shares

 

                              
      Year Ended August 31,  
      2023     2022     2021     2020     2019  
   

Per Share Operating Performance(a):

                                        

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year

     $10.77       $21.09       $23.41       $27.83       $36.85  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

                                        

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.09     (0.13     (0.18     (0.13     (0.14
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment transactions      1.40       (3.35     7.52       4.48       1.32  

Total from investment operations

     1.31       (3.48     7.34       4.35       1.18  

Less Dividends and Distributions:

                                        

Distributions from net realized gains

     (0.24     (6.84     (9.66     (8.77     (10.20

Net asset value, end of year

     $11.84       $10.77       $21.09       $23.41       $27.83  

Total Return(b):

     12.37     (24.05 )%      38.38     21.56     9.74
                                          
   
Ratios/Supplemental Data:                                    

Net assets, end of year (000)

     $87,966       $91,437       $139,403       $124,024       $137,975  

Average net assets (000)

     $85,193       $111,055       $135,345       $121,955       $144,398  

Ratios to average net assets(c):

                                        

Expenses after waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.25     1.26     1.24     1.26     1.25

Expenses before waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.50     1.51     1.49     1.51     1.50

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.82 )%      (0.90 )%      (0.86 )%      (0.61 )%      (0.51 )% 

Portfolio turnover rate(d)

     38     51     71     58     31

 

(a)

Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day and a sale on the last day of each year reported and includes reinvestment of dividends and distributions, if any. Total returns may reflect adjustments to conform to GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the underlying funds in which the Fund invests.

(d)

The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements, without regard to transactions involving short-term investments, certain derivatives and in-kind transactions (if any). If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may be higher.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Financial Highlights (continued)

 

           

Class Z Shares

 

                              
      Year Ended August 31,  
      2023     2022     2021     2020     2019  
   

Per Share Operating Performance(a):

                                        

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year

     $17.59       $29.94       $29.67       $32.84       $41.27  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

                                        

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.05     (0.08     (0.09     (0.02     (0.01
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment transactions      2.32       (5.43     10.02       5.62       1.78  

Total from investment operations

     2.27       (5.51     9.93       5.60       1.77  

Less Dividends and Distributions:

                                        

Distributions from net realized gains

     (0.24     (6.84     (9.66     (8.77     (10.20

Net asset value, end of year

     $19.62       $17.59       $29.94       $29.67       $32.84  

Total Return(b):

     13.04     (23.64 )%      39.12     22.16     10.29
                                          
   
Ratios/Supplemental Data:                                    

Net assets, end of year (000)

     $595,557       $564,177       $845,309       $771,068       $1,550,111  

Average net assets (000)

     $556,388       $682,445       $829,228       $896,694       $1,902,093  

Ratios to average net assets(c):

                                        

Expenses after waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     0.73     0.71     0.70     0.74     0.79

Expenses before waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     0.73     0.71     0.70     0.74     0.79

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.29 )%      (0.36 )%      (0.32 )%      (0.08 )%      (0.04 )% 

Portfolio turnover rate(d)

     38     51     71     58     31

 

(a)

Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day and a sale on the last day of each year reported and includes reinvestment of dividends and distributions, if any. Total returns may reflect adjustments to conform to GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the underlying funds in which the Fund invests.

(d)

The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements, without regard to transactions involving short-term investments, certain derivatives and in-kind transactions (if any). If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may be higher.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Class R2 Shares

 

                              
      Year Ended August 31,  
      2023     2022     2021     2020     2019  
   

Per Share Operating Performance(a):

                                        

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year

     $17.71       $30.19       $29.94       $33.15       $41.65  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

                                        

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.12     (0.16     (0.22     (0.12     (0.11
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment transactions      2.33       (5.48     10.13       5.68       1.81  

Total from investment operations

     2.21       (5.64     9.91       5.56       1.70  

Less Dividends and Distributions:

                                        

Distributions from net realized gains

     (0.24     (6.84     (9.66     (8.77     (10.20

Net asset value, end of year

     $19.68       $17.71       $30.19       $29.94       $33.15  

Total Return(b):

     12.60     (23.92 )%      38.60     21.74     9.93
                                          
   
Ratios/Supplemental Data:                                    

Net assets, end of year (000)

     $1,858       $1,269       $1,851       $650       $539  

Average net assets (000)

     $1,402       $1,523       $1,050       $562       $296  

Ratios to average net assets(c):

                                        

Expenses after waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.08     1.08     1.08     1.08     1.08

Expenses before waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     1.56     1.63     1.98     3.70     6.45

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.64 )%      (0.72 )%      (0.75 )%      (0.45 )%      (0.35 )% 

Portfolio turnover rate(d)

     38     51     71     58     31

 

(a)

Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day and a sale on the last day of each year reported and includes reinvestment of dividends and distributions, if any. Total returns may reflect adjustments to conform to GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the underlying funds in which the Fund invests.

(d)

The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements, without regard to transactions involving short-term investments, certain derivatives and in-kind transactions (if any). If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may be higher.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Financial Highlights (continued)

 

           

Class R4 Shares

 

                              
      Year Ended August 31,  
      2023     2022     2021     2020     2019  
   

Per Share Operating Performance(a):

                                        

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year

     $18.13       $30.68       $30.24       $33.33       $41.72  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

                                        

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.07     (0.10     (0.14     (0.09     (0.03
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment transactions      2.39       (5.61     10.24       5.77       1.84  

Total from investment operations

     2.32       (5.71     10.10       5.68       1.81  

Less Dividends and Distributions:

                                        

Distributions from net realized gains

     (0.24     (6.84     (9.66     (8.77     (10.20

Net asset value, end of year

     $20.21       $18.13       $30.68       $30.24       $33.33  

Total Return(b):

     12.92     (23.74 )%      38.90     22.05     10.24
                                          
   
Ratios/Supplemental Data:                                    

Net assets, end of year (000)

     $26,663       $20,254       $1,810       $1,088       $164  

Average net assets (000)

     $23,220       $17,358       $1,421       $531       $106  

Ratios to average net assets(c):

                                        

Expenses after waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     0.83     0.83     0.83     0.83     0.83

Expenses before waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     0.87     0.88     1.50     3.58     15.83

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.40 )%      (0.46 )%      (0.47 )%      (0.33 )%      (0.09 )% 

Portfolio turnover rate(d)

     38     51     71     58     31

 

(a)

Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day and a sale on the last day of each year reported and includes reinvestment of dividends and distributions, if any. Total returns may reflect adjustments to conform to GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the underlying funds in which the Fund invests.

(d)

The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements, without regard to transactions involving short-term investments, certain derivatives and in-kind transactions (if any). If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may be higher.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

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Class R6 Shares

 

                              
      Year Ended August 31,  
      2023     2022     2021     2020     2019  
   

Per Share Operating Performance(a):

                                        

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year

     $18.54       $31.16       $30.52       $33.50       $41.80  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

                                        

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.03     (0.05     (0.06     0.01       0.05  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investment transactions      2.45       (5.73     10.36       5.78       1.85  

Total from investment operations

     2.42       (5.78     10.30       5.79       1.90  

Less Dividends and Distributions:

                                        

Distributions from net realized gains

     (0.24     (6.84     (9.66     (8.77     (10.20

Net asset value, end of year

     $20.72       $18.54       $31.16       $30.52       $33.50  

Total Return(b):

     13.18     (23.57 )%      39.27     22.32     10.52
                                          
   
Ratios/Supplemental Data:                                    

Net assets, end of year (000)

     $708,201       $603,976       $878,037       $682,514       $675,919  

Average net assets (000)

     $633,368       $736,358       $789,403       $640,757       $786,436  

Ratios to average net assets(c):

                                        

Expenses after waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     0.60     0.60     0.59     0.60     0.59

Expenses before waivers and/or expense reimbursement

     0.60     0.60     0.59     0.60     0.59

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.17 )%      (0.24 )%      (0.21 )%      0.04     0.15

Portfolio turnover rate(d)

     38     51     71     58     31

 

(a)

Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day and a sale on the last day of each year reported and includes reinvestment of dividends and distributions, if any. Total returns may reflect adjustments to conform to GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the underlying funds in which the Fund invests.

(d)

The Fund’s portfolio turnover rate is calculated in accordance with regulatory requirements, without regard to transactions involving short-term investments, certain derivatives and in-kind transactions (if any). If such transactions were included, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate may be higher.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund 33


Notes to Financial Statements

 

1.

Organization

Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc. (the “Registered Investment Company” or “RIC”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company. The RIC is organized as a Maryland Corporation and PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund (the “Fund”) is the sole series of the RIC. The Fund is classified as a diversified fund for purposes of the 1940 Act.

The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve long-term capital appreciation.

 

2.

Accounting Policies

The Fund follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) Topic 946 Financial Services — Investment Companies. The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Fund in the preparation of its financial statements. The policies conform to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The Fund consistently follows such policies in the preparation of its financial statements.

Securities Valuation: The Fund holds securities and other assets and liabilities that are fair valued as of the close of each day (generally, 4:00 PM Eastern time) the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for trading. As described in further detail below, the Fund’s investments are valued daily based on a number of factors, including the type of investment and whether market quotations are readily available. The RIC’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) has approved the Fund’s valuation policies and procedures for security valuation and designated PGIM Investments LLC (“PGIM Investments” or the “Manager”) as the “Valuation Designee,” as defined by Rule 2a-5(b) under the 1940 Act, to perform the fair value determination relating to all Fund investments. Pursuant to the Board’s oversight, the Valuation Designee has established a Valuation Committee to perform the duties and responsibilities as Valuation Designee under Rule 2a-5. The valuation procedures permit the Fund to utilize independent pricing vendor services, quotations from market makers, and alternative valuation methods when market quotations are either not readily available or not deemed representative of fair value. Fair value is the estimated price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.

For the fiscal reporting year-end, securities and other assets and liabilities were fair valued at the close of the last U.S. business day. Trading in certain foreign securities may occur when the NYSE is closed (including weekends and holidays). Because such foreign securities trade in markets that are open on weekends and U.S. holidays, the values of some of the

 

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Fund’s foreign investments may change on days when investors cannot purchase or redeem Fund shares.

Various inputs determine how the Fund’s investments are valued, all of which are categorized according to the three broad levels (Level 1, 2, or 3) detailed in the Schedule of Investments and referred to herein as the “fair value hierarchy” in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 820 — Fair Value Measurement.

Common or preferred stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and derivative instruments, if applicable, that are traded on a national securities exchange are valued at the last sale price as of the close of trading on the applicable exchange where the security principally trades. Securities traded via NASDAQ are valued at the NASDAQ official closing price. To the extent these securities are valued at the last sale price or NASDAQ official closing price, they are classified as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy. In the event that no sale or official closing price on a valuation date exists, these securities are generally valued at the mean between the last reported bid and ask prices, or at the last bid price in the absence of an ask price. These securities are classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.

Investments in open-end funds (other than ETFs) are valued at their net asset values as of the close of the NYSE on the date of valuation. These securities are classified as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy since they may be purchased or sold at their net asset values on the date of valuation.

Securities and other assets that cannot be priced according to the methods described above are valued based on policies and procedures approved by the Board. In the event that unobservable inputs are used when determining such valuations, the securities will be classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. Altering one or more unobservable inputs may result in a significant change to a Level 3 security’s fair value measurement.

When determining the fair value of securities, some of the factors influencing the valuation include: the nature of any restrictions on disposition of the securities; assessment of the general liquidity of the securities; the issuer’s financial condition and the markets in which it does business; the cost of the investment; the size of the holding and the capitalization of the issuer; the prices of any recent transactions or bids/offers for such securities or any comparable securities; and any available analyst media or other reports or information deemed reliable by the Valuation Designee regarding the issuer or the markets or industry in which it operates. Using fair value to price securities may result in a value that is different from a security’s most recent closing price and from the price used by other unaffiliated mutual funds to calculate their net asset values.

Master Netting Arrangements: The RIC, on behalf of the Fund, is subject to various Master Agreements, or netting arrangements, with select counterparties. These are agreements which a subadviser may have negotiated and entered into on behalf of all or a portion of the Fund. A master netting arrangement between the Fund and the counterparty permits the Fund to offset amounts payable by the Fund to the same counterparty against amounts

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

to be received and by the receipt of collateral from the counterparty by the Fund to cover the Fund’s exposure to the counterparty. However, there is no assurance that such mitigating factors are easily enforceable. In addition to master netting arrangements, the right to set-off exists when all the conditions are met such that each of the parties owes the other determinable amounts, the reporting party has the right to set-off the amount owed with the amount owed by the other party, the reporting party intends to set-off and the right of set-off is enforceable by law.

Securities Lending: The Fund lends its portfolio securities to banks and broker-dealers. The loans are secured by collateral at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. Collateral pledged by each borrower is invested in an affiliated money market fund and is marked to market daily, based on the previous day’s market value, such that the value of the collateral exceeds the value of the loaned securities. In the event of significant appreciation in value of the securities on loan on the last business day of the reporting period, the financial statements may reflect a collateral value that is less than the market value of the loaned securities. Such shortfall is remedied as described above. Loans are subject to termination at the option of the borrower or the Fund. Upon termination of the loan, the borrower will return to the Fund securities identical to the loaned securities. The remaining open loans of the securities lending transactions are considered overnight and continuous. Should the borrower of the securities fail financially, the Fund has the right to repurchase the securities in the open market using the collateral.

The Fund recognizes income, net of any rebate and securities lending agent fees, for lending its securities in the form of fees or interest on the investment of any cash received as collateral. The borrower receives all interest and dividends from the securities loaned and such payments are passed back to the lender in amounts equivalent thereto, which are reflected in interest income or unaffiliated dividend income based on the nature of the payment on the Statement of Operations. The Fund also continues to recognize any unrealized gain (loss) in the market price of the securities loaned and on the change in the value of the collateral invested that may occur during the term of the loan. In addition, realized gain (loss) is recognized on changes in the value of the collateral invested upon liquidation of the collateral. Net earnings from securities lending are disclosed in the Statement of Operations.

Securities Transactions and Net Investment Income: Securities transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains (losses) from investment and currency transactions are calculated on the specific identification method. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-date, or for certain foreign securities, when the Fund becomes aware of such dividends. Expenses are recorded on an accrual basis, which may require the use of certain estimates by management that may differ from actual expense amounts. Net investment income or loss (other than class specific expenses and waivers, which are allocated as noted below)

 

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and unrealized and realized gains (losses) are allocated daily to each class of shares based upon the relative proportion of adjusted net assets of each class at the beginning of the day. Class specific expenses and waivers, where applicable, are charged to the respective share classes. Such class specific expenses and waivers include distribution fees and distribution fee waivers, shareholder servicing fees, transfer agent’s fees and expenses, registration fees and fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, as applicable.

Taxes: It is the Fund’s policy to continue to meet the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute all of its taxable net investment income and capital gains, if any, to its shareholders. Therefore, no federal income tax provision is required. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends, interest and capital gains, if any, are recorded, net of reclaimable amounts, at the time the related income is earned.

Dividends and Distributions: Dividends and distributions to shareholders, which are determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations and which may differ from GAAP, are recorded on the ex-date. Permanent book/tax differences relating to income and gain (loss) are reclassified between total distributable earnings (loss) and paid-in capital in excess of par, as appropriate. The chart below sets forth the expected frequency of dividend and capital gains distributions to shareholders. Various factors may impact the frequency of dividend distributions to shareholders, including but not limited to adverse market conditions or portfolio holding-specific events.

 

 Expected Distribution Schedule to Shareholders*

     Frequency   

 Net Investment Income

     Annually   

 Short-Term Capital Gains

     Annually   

 Long-Term Capital Gains

     Annually   

 

*

Under certain circumstances, the Fund may make more than one distribution of short-term and/or long-term capital gains during a fiscal year.

Estimates: The preparation of financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

3.

Agreements

The RIC, on behalf of the Fund, has a management agreement with the Manager pursuant to which it has responsibility for all investment advisory services, including supervision of the subadviser’s performance of such services, and for rendering administrative services.

The Manager has entered into a subadvisory agreement with Jennison Associates LLC (“Jennison” or “subadviser”). The Manager pays for the services of Jennison.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

Fees payable under the management agreement are computed daily and paid monthly. For the reporting period ended August 31, 2023, the contractual and effective management fee rates were as follows:

 

   
 Contractual Management Rate   

Effective Management Fee, before any waivers

and/or expense reimbursements

 

 0.60% of average daily net assets up to $1 billion;

     0.57%  

 0.55% of average daily net assets over $1 billion.

        

The Manager has contractually agreed, through December 31, 2024, to limit transfer agency, shareholder servicing, sub-transfer agency, and blue sky fees, as applicable. This contractual expense limitation excludes interest, brokerage, taxes (such as income and foreign withholding taxes, stamp duty and deferred tax expenses), acquired fund fees and expenses, extraordinary expenses, and certain other Fund expenses such as dividend and interest expense and broker charges on short sales.

Where applicable, the Manager agrees to waive management fees or shared operating expenses on any share class to the same extent that it waives such expenses on any other share class. In addition, total annual operating expenses for Class R6 shares will not exceed total annual operating expenses for Class Z shares. Fees and/or expenses waived and/or reimbursed by the Manager for the purpose of preventing the expenses from exceeding a certain expense ratio limit may be recouped by the Manager within the same fiscal year during which such waiver and/or reimbursement is made if such recoupment can be realized without exceeding the expense limit in effect at the time of the recoupment for that fiscal year. The expense limitations attributable to each class are as follows:

 

   
 Class   

Expense 

Limitations 

 

 A

     —%   

 C

     —     

 R

     —     

 Z

     —     

 R2

     1.08     

 R4

     0.83     

 R6

     —     

The RIC, on behalf of the Fund, has a distribution agreement with Prudential Investment Management Services LLC (“PIMS”), which acts as the distributor of the Class A, Class C, Class R, Class Z, Class R2, Class R4 and Class R6 shares of the Fund. The Fund compensates PIMS for distributing and servicing the Fund’s Class A, Class C, Class R and Class R2 shares, pursuant to the plans of distribution (the “Distribution Plans”), regardless of expenses actually incurred by PIMS.

 

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Pursuant to the Distribution Plans, the Fund compensates PIMS for distribution related activities at an annual rate based on average daily net assets per class. PIMS has contractually agreed through December 31, 2024 to limit such expenses. The distribution fees are accrued daily and payable monthly.

The Fund has adopted a Shareholder Services Plan with respect to Class R2 and Class R4 shares. Under the terms of the Shareholder Services Plan, Class R2 and Class R4 shares are authorized to compensate Prudential Mutual Fund Services LLC (“PMFS”), its affiliates or third-party service providers for services rendered to the shareholders of such Class R2 or Class R4 shares. The shareholder service fee is accrued daily and paid monthly, as applicable.

The Fund’s annual gross and net distribution rates and maximum shareholder service fee, where applicable, are as follows:

 

       
 Class    Gross Distribution Fee    Net Distribution Fee    Shareholder Service Fee

 A

   0.30%    0.30%    N/A%

 C

   1.00      1.00      N/A  

 R

   0.75      0.50      N/A  

 Z

   N/A      N/A      N/A  

 R2

   0.25      0.25      0.10  

 R4

   N/A      N/A      0.10  

 R6

   N/A      N/A      N/A  

For the year ended August 31, 2023, PIMS received front-end sales charges (“FESL”) resulting from sales of certain class shares and contingent deferred sales charges (“CDSC”) imposed upon redemptions by certain shareholders. From these fees, PIMS paid such sales charges to broker-dealers, who in turn paid commissions to salespersons and incurred other distribution costs. The sales charges are as follows where applicable:

 

     
 Class    FESL      CDSC  

 A

   $ 162,500        $1,660  

 C

            539  

PGIM Investments, PIMS and Jennison are indirect, wholly-owned subsidiaries of Prudential Financial, Inc. (“Prudential”).

 

4.

Other Transactions with Affiliates

PMFS serves as the Fund’s transfer agent and shareholder servicing agent. Transfer agent’s and shareholder servicing agent’s fees and expenses in the Statement of Operations include certain out-of-pocket expenses paid to non-affiliates, where applicable.

The Fund may invest its overnight sweep cash in the PGIM Core Government Money Market Fund (the “Core Government Fund”), a series of the Prudential Government Money Market Fund, Inc., and its securities lending cash collateral in the PGIM Institutional Money Market Fund (the “Money Market Fund”), a series of Prudential Investment Portfolios 2, each

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

registered under the 1940 Act and managed by PGIM Investments. PGIM Investments and/or its affiliates are paid fees or reimbursed for providing their services to the Core Government Fund and the Money Market Fund. In addition to the realized and unrealized gains on investments in the Core Government Fund and the Money Market Fund, earnings from such investments are disclosed on the Statement of Operations as “Affiliated dividend income” and “Income from securities lending, net”, respectively.

The Fund may enter into certain securities purchase or sale transactions under Board approved Rule 17a-7 procedures. Rule 17a-7 is an exemptive rule under the 1940 Act that, subject to certain conditions, permits purchase and sale transactions among affiliated investment companies, or between an investment company and a person that is affiliated solely by reason of having a common (or affiliated) investment adviser, common directors/trustees, and/or common officers. For the year ended August 31, 2023, no Rule 17a-7 transactions were entered into by the Fund.

 

5.

Portfolio Securities

The aggregate cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of portfolio securities (excluding short-term investments and U.S. Government securities) for the reporting period ended August 31, 2023, were as follows:

 

   
Cost of Purchases    Proceeds from Sales

$778,001,819

   $915,398,276

A summary of the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of shares of affiliated mutual funds for the year ended August 31, 2023, is presented as follows:

 

               
  Value, 
 Beginning 
 of Year 
 

Cost of

Purchases

   

Proceeds

from Sales

   

Change in

Unrealized

Gain

(Loss)

   

Realized

Gain

(Loss)

   

Value,

End of Year

   

Shares,

End

of Year

    Income  

Short-Term Investments - Affiliated Mutual Funds:

                                 

PGIM Core Government Money Market Fund(1)(wi)

                                 
$    —     $  189,327,191       $  145,970,680       $    —       $   —       $ 43,356,511       43,356,511       $  921,780  

PGIM Institutional Money Market Fund(1)(b)(wi)

 
 301,506,282     2,853,993,910       2,954,979,046       (19,131     62,257       200,564,272       200,664,604       661,953 (2)  
$301,506,282     $3,043,321,101       $3,100,949,726       $(19,131     $62,257       $243,920,783               $1,583,733  

 

(1)

The Fund did not have any capital gain distributions during the reporting period.

(2)

The amount, or a portion thereof, represents the affiliated securities lending income shown on the Statement of Operations.

(b)

Represents security, or portion thereof, purchased with cash collateral received for securities on loan and includes dividend reinvestment.

 

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(wi)

PGIM Investments LLC, the manager of the Fund, also serves as manager of the PGIM Core Government Money Market Fund and PGIM Institutional Money Market Fund, if applicable.

 

6.

Distributions and Tax Information

Distributions to shareholders, which are determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations and which may differ from GAAP, are recorded on the ex-date. In order to present total distributable earnings (loss) and paid-in capital on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities that more closely represent their tax character, certain adjustments have been made to total distributable earnings (loss) and paid-in capital for the Fund. The adjustments were due to a net operating loss and prior year post-financial statement adjustments.

For the year ended August 31, 2023, the adjustments were as follows:

 

   

Total Distributable

Earnings (Loss)

  

Paid-in

Capital in

Excess of Par

$9,696,052

   $(9,696,052)

For the year ended August 31, 2023, the tax character of dividends paid as reflected in the Statement of Changes in Net Assets were as follows:

 

       
Ordinary
Income
  

Long-Term

Capital Gains

  

Tax Return

of Capital

  

Total Dividends

and Distributions

$—   

   $30,615,876    $—    $30,615,876

For the year ended August 31, 2022, the tax character of dividends paid as reflected in the Statement of Changes in Net Assets were as follows:

 

       
Ordinary
Income
  

Long-Term

Capital Gains

  

Tax Return

of Capital

  

Total Dividends

and Distributions

$210,177,185  

   $525,341,769    $—    $735,518,954

For the year ended August 31, 2023, the Fund had the following amounts of accumulated undistributed earnings on a tax basis:

 

   

Undistributed

Ordinary

Income

  

Undistributed

Long-Term

Capital Gains

$—

   $78,637,945

The United States federal income tax basis of the Fund’s investments and the net unrealized appreciation as of August 31, 2023 were as follows:

 

       
  Tax Basis   Gross
Unrealized
Appreciation
  Gross
Unrealized
Depreciation
  Net
Unrealized
Appreciation
$1,930,672,723   $533,843,206   $(70,490,383)   $463,352,823

The difference between GAAP and tax basis was primarily attributable to deferred losses on wash sales.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

The Fund elected to treat the below approximated losses as having been incurred in the following fiscal year (August 31, 2024).

 

   

Qualified Late-Year

Losses

  

Post-October

Capital Losses

$5,648,000

   $—

The Manager has analyzed the Fund’s tax positions taken on federal, state and local income tax returns for all open tax years and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the Fund’s financial statements for the current reporting period. Since tax authorities can examine previously filed tax returns, the Fund’s U.S. federal and state tax returns for each of the four fiscal years up to the most recent fiscal year ended August 31, 2023 are subject to such review.

 

7.

Capital and Ownership

The Fund offers Class A, Class C, Class R, Class Z, Class R2, Class R4 and Class R6 shares. Class A shares are sold with a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.50%. Investors who purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares and sell these shares within 12 months of purchase are subject to a CDSC of 1%, although they are not subject to an initial sales charge. The Class A CDSC is waived for certain retirement and/or benefit plans. A special exchange privilege is also available for shareholders who qualified to purchase Class A shares at net asset value. Class C shares are sold with a CDSC of 1% on sales made within 12 months of purchase. Class C shares will automatically convert to Class A shares on a monthly basis approximately eight years (ten years prior to January 22, 2021) after purchase. Class R, Class Z, Class R2, Class R4 and Class R6 shares are not subject to any sales or redemption charges and are available exclusively for sale to a limited group of investors.

Under certain circumstances, an exchange may be made from specified share classes of the Fund to one or more other share classes of the Fund as presented in the table of transactions in shares of common stock, below.

 

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The RIC is authorized to issue 2,000,000,000 shares of capital stock, $0.001 par value per share, designated as shares of the Fund. The shares are further classified and designated as follows:

 

   
 Class    Number of Shares  

 A

     345,000,000    

 B

     5,000,000    

 C

     25,000,000    

 R

     125,000,000    

 Z

     800,000,000    

 T

     100,000,000    

 R2

     100,000,000    

 R4

     100,000,000    

 R6

     400,000,000    

The Fund currently does not have any Class B or Class T shares outstanding.

As of August 31, 2023, Prudential, through its affiliated entities, including affiliated funds (if applicable), owned shares of the Fund as follows:

 

     
 Class   Number of Shares      Percentage of Outstanding Shares 

 Z

    8,034         0.1%

 R4

    861         0.1  

At the reporting period end, the number of shareholders holding greater than 5% of the Fund are as follows:

 

     
     Number of Shareholders      Percentage of Outstanding Shares 

 Affiliated

    —          —%

 Unaffiliated

    3          33.6   

Transactions in shares of common stock were as follows:

 

     
 Share Class    Shares      Amount  

 Class A

                 

 Year ended August 31, 2023:

                 

 Shares sold

     3,006,850      $ 40,124,144  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     1,008,087        12,984,167  

 Shares purchased

     (10,019,421      (131,865,922

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     (6,004,484      (78,757,611

 Shares issued upon conversion from other share class(es)

     200,911        2,641,257  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (353,713      (4,656,410

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     (6,157,286    $ (80,772,764

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

     
 Share Class    Shares     Amount  

 Year ended August 31, 2022:

                

 Shares sold

     4,704,999     $ 75,295,157  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     17,958,143       299,900,981  

 Shares purchased

     (11,100,809     (178,448,201

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     11,562,333       196,747,937  

 Shares issued upon conversion from other share class(es)

     248,367       4,734,470  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (335,467     (5,554,396

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     11,475,233     $ 195,928,011  

 Class C(a)

                

 Year ended August 31, 2023:

                

 Shares sold

     110,861     $ 1,944,585  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     7,988       136,598  

 Shares purchased

     (162,084     (2,843,478

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     (43,235     (762,295

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (70,689     (1,228,849

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     (113,924   $ (1,991,144

 Year ended August 31, 2022:

                

 Shares sold

     215,178     $ 2,431,901  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     171,704       3,822,124  

 Shares purchased

     (2,037,622     (4,151,056

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     (1,650,740     2,102,969  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (90,436     (957,938

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     (1,741,176   $ 1,145,031  

 Class R

                

 Year ended August 31, 2023:

                

 Shares sold

     945,679     $ 10,449,512  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     173,660       1,866,846  

 Shares purchased

     (2,184,378     (23,797,060

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     (1,065,039   $ (11,480,702

 Year ended August 31, 2022:

                

 Shares sold

     1,454,481     $ 18,169,680  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     3,011,344       42,188,926  

 Shares purchased

     (2,579,763     (35,520,977

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     1,886,062       24,837,629  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (1,602     (19,164

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     1,884,460     $ 24,818,465  

 

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 Share Class    Shares     Amount  

 Class Z

                

 Year ended August 31, 2023:

                

 Shares sold

     6,519,766     $ 119,776,686  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     385,645       6,845,208  

 Shares purchased

     (8,467,651     (152,405,071

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     (1,562,240     (25,783,177

 Shares issued upon conversion from other share class(es)

     260,420       4,725,662  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (415,008     (7,585,460

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     (1,716,828   $ (28,642,975

 Year ended August 31, 2022:

                

 Shares sold

     5,707,804     $ 117,405,316  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     7,636,045       174,178,179  

 Shares purchased

     (9,565,096     (207,799,325

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     3,778,753       83,784,170  

 Shares issued upon conversion from other share class(es)

     238,862       5,335,069  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (176,744     (4,482,343

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     3,840,871     $ 84,636,896  

 Class R2

                

 Year ended August 31, 2023:

                

 Shares sold

     48,430     $ 887,304  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     925       16,516  

 Shares purchased

     (26,621     (489,711

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     22,734     $ 414,109  

 Year ended August 31, 2022:

                

 Shares sold

     5,204     $ 111,768  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     17,131       394,367  

 Shares purchased

     (11,977     (276,394

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     10,358     $ 229,741  

 Class R4

                

 Year ended August 31, 2023:

                

 Shares sold

     348,957     $ 6,452,092  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     1,239       22,665  

 Shares purchased

     (147,902     (2,786,372

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     202,294     $ 3,688,385  

 Year ended August 31, 2022:

                

 Shares sold

     1,211,894     $ 32,937,142  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     16,434       386,681  

 Shares purchased

     (170,290     (3,506,079

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     1,058,038     $ 29,817,744  

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

     
 Share Class    Shares     Amount  

 Class R6

                

 Year ended August 31, 2023:

                

 Shares sold

     9,254,008     $ 179,221,516  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     389,404       7,293,538  

 Shares purchased

     (8,352,690     (159,274,187

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     1,290,722       27,240,867  

 Shares issued upon conversion from other share class(es)

     325,992       6,299,434  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (10,115     (195,634

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     1,606,599     $ 33,344,667  

 Year ended August 31, 2022:

                

 Shares sold

     11,154,187     $ 240,815,138  

 Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions

     7,365,273       176,987,501  

 Shares purchased

     (14,168,639     (301,853,565

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding before conversion

     4,350,821       115,949,074  

 Shares issued upon conversion from other share class(es)

     46,670       1,134,715  

 Shares purchased upon conversion into other share class(es)

     (7,032     (190,413

 Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding

     4,390,459     $ 116,893,376  

 

(a)

On December 27, 2021, the Fund declared a 4 to 1 reverse stock split.

On December 27, 2021, the Fund’s Class C shares implemented a four-into-one reverse stock split the net effect of which was to decrease the number of the Fund’s outstanding shares and increase the net asset value per share by a proportionate amount. While the number of the Fund’s outstanding shares decreased, neither the Fund’s holdings nor the total value of shareholders’ investments in the Fund were affected. Immediately after the reverse stock split, each shareholder maintained the same percentage of the Fund’s net assets prior to the reverse stock split. Capital share activity referenced in the Statement of Changes in Net Assets and in Note 7, as well as per share data in the Financial Highlights for Class C shares have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split.

 

8.

Borrowings

The RIC, on behalf of the Fund, along with other affiliated registered investment companies (the “Participating Funds”), is a party to a Syndicated Credit Agreement (“SCA”) with a group of banks. The purpose of the SCA is to provide an alternative source of temporary funding for capital share redemptions. The table below provides details of the current SCA in effect at the reporting period-end as well as the prior SCA.

 

     Current SCA           Prior SCA

 Term of Commitment

   9/30/2022 - 9/28/2023         10/1/2021 – 9/29/2022

 

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     Current SCA    Prior SCA

 Total Commitment

   $ 1,200,000,000    $ 1,200,000,000

 Annualized Commitment Fee on

 the Unused Portion of the SCA

   0.15%    0.15%

 Annualized Interest Rate on

 Borrowings

   1.00% plus the higher of (1)

the effective federal funds

rate, (2) the daily SOFR

rate plus 0.10% or (3) zero

percent

   1.20% plus the higher of (1)

the effective federal funds

rate, (2) the one-month

LIBOR rate or (3) zero

percent

Subsequent to the reporting period end, the SCA has been renewed and effective September 29, 2023 will provide a commitment of $1,200,000,000 through September 26, 2024. The commitment fee paid by the Participating Funds will continue to be 0.15% of the unused portion of the SCA. The interest on borrowings under the renewed SCA will be paid monthly and at a per annum interest rate of 1.00% plus the higher of (1) the effective federal funds rate, (2) the daily SOFR rate plus 0.10% or (3) zero percent.

Certain affiliated registered investment companies that are parties to the SCA include portfolios that are subject to a predetermined mathematical formula used to manage certain benefit guarantees offered under variable annuity contracts. The formula may result in large scale asset flows into and out of these portfolios. Consequently, these portfolios may be more likely to utilize the SCA for purposes of funding redemptions. It may be possible for those portfolios to fully exhaust the committed amount of the SCA, thereby requiring the Manager to allocate available funding per a Board-approved methodology designed to treat the Participating Funds in the SCA equitably.

The Fund utilized the SCA during the year ended August 31, 2023. The average daily balance for the 2 days that the Fund had loans outstanding during the period was approximately $1,857,000, borrowed at a weighted average interest rate of 4.14%. The maximum loan outstanding amount during the period was $3,091,000. At August 31, 2023, the Fund did not have an outstanding loan amount.

 

9.

Risks of Investing in the Fund

The Fund’s risks include, but are not limited to, some or all of the risks discussed below. For further information on the Fund’s risks, please refer to the Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.

Economic and Market Events Risk: Events in the U.S. and global financial markets, including actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth or the functioning of the securities markets, or otherwise reduce inflation, may at times result in unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact performance. Governmental efforts to curb inflation often have negative effects on the level of economic activity. Relatively reduced liquidity in credit and fixed income markets could adversely affect issuers worldwide.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

Equity and Equity-Related Securities Risk: Equity and equity-related securities may be subject to changes in value, and their values may be more volatile than those of other asset classes. In addition to an individual security losing value, the value of the equity markets or a sector in which the Fund invests could go down. Different parts of a market can react differently to adverse issuer, market, regulatory, political and economic developments.

Growth Style Risk: The Fund’s growth style may subject the Fund to above-average fluctuations as a result of seeking higher than average capital growth. Growth stocks are generally more sensitive to market movements than other types of stocks primarily because their stock prices are based heavily on future expectations. Historically, growth stocks have performed best during later stages of economic expansion and value stocks have performed best during periods of economic recovery. Growth company stocks also typically lack the dividend yield that can lessen price declines in market downturns. Since the Fund follows a growth investment style, there is the risk that the growth investment style may be out of favor for a period of time. At times when the style is out of favor, the Fund may underperform the market in general, its benchmark and other mutual funds.

Increase in Expenses Risk: Your actual cost of investing in the Fund may be higher than the expenses shown in the expense table in the Fund’s prospectus for a variety of reasons. For example, expense ratios may be higher than those shown if average net assets decrease. Net assets are more likely to decrease and Fund expense ratios are more likely to increase when markets are volatile. Active and frequent trading of Fund securities can increase expenses.

Large Shareholder and Large Scale Redemption Risk: Certain individuals, accounts, funds (including funds affiliated with the Manager) or institutions, including the Manager and its affiliates, may from time to time own or control a substantial amount of the Fund’s shares. There is no requirement that these entities maintain their investment in the Fund. There is a risk that such large shareholders or that the Fund’s shareholders generally may redeem all or a substantial portion of their investments in the Fund in a short period of time, which could have a significant negative impact on the Fund’s NAV, liquidity, and brokerage costs. Large redemptions could also result in tax consequences to shareholders and impact the Fund’s ability to implement its investment strategy. The Fund’s ability to pursue its investment objective after one or more large scale redemptions may be impaired and, as a result, the Fund may invest a larger portion of its assets in cash or cash equivalents.

Management Risk: Actively managed funds are subject to management risk. The subadviser will apply investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but the subadviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular security, industry or sector or about market movements

 

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may be incorrect. Additionally, the investments selected for the Fund may underperform the markets in general, the Fund’s benchmark and other funds with similar investment objectives.

Market Disruption and Geopolitical Risks: Market disruption can be caused by economic, financial or political events and factors, including but not limited to, international wars or conflicts (including Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine), geopolitical developments (including trading and tariff arrangements, sanctions and cybersecurity attacks), instability in regions such as Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, terrorism, natural disasters and public health epidemics (including the outbreak of COVID-19 globally).

The extent and duration of such events and resulting market disruptions cannot be predicted, but could be substantial and could magnify the impact of other risks to the Fund. These and other similar events could adversely affect the U.S. and foreign financial markets and lead to increased market volatility, reduced liquidity in the securities markets, significant negative impacts on issuers and the markets for certain securities and commodities and/or government intervention. They may also cause short- or long-term economic uncertainties in the United States and worldwide. As a result, whether or not the Fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries directly affected, the value and liquidity of the Fund’s investments may be negatively impacted. Further, due to closures of certain markets and restrictions on trading certain securities, the value of certain securities held by the Fund could be significantly impacted, which could lead to such securities being valued at zero.

COVID-19 and the related governmental and public responses have had, and future public health epidemics may have an impact on the Fund’s investments and net asset value, and have led and may lead to increased market volatility and the potential for illiquidity in certain classes of securities and sectors of the market. Future public health epidemics may result in periods of business disruption, business closures, inability to obtain raw materials, supplies and component parts, and reduced or disrupted operations for the issuers in which the Fund invests. The occurrence, reoccurrence and pendency of public health epidemics could adversely affect the economies and financial markets either in specific countries or worldwide.

Market Risk: Securities markets may be volatile and the market prices of the Fund’s securities may decline. Securities fluctuate in price based on changes in an issuer’s financial condition and overall market and economic conditions. If the market prices of the securities owned by the Fund fall, the value of your investment in the Fund will decline.

Medium Capitalization (Mid-Cap) Company Risk: The Fund’s investments in mid-cap companies carry more risk than investments in larger capitalized companies. Investments in mid-cap companies carry additional risks because earnings of these companies tend to be less predictable; they often have limited product lines, markets, distribution channels or financial resources; and the management of such companies may be dependent on one or a few key people. The market movements of these companies’ securities may be more

 

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

 

abrupt or erratic than the market movements of securities of larger, more established companies or the stock market in general. Historically, mid-cap companies have sometimes gone through extended periods when they did not perform as well as larger companies. Mid-cap companies generally are comparatively less liquid than larger companies, which may make such investments more difficult to sell at the time and price that the Fund would like. Also, the stocks of mid-cap companies may fall out of favor relative to those of small- or large-capitalization companies, causing the Fund to underperform other equity funds that focus on small or large-capitalization companies.

 

10.

Recent Regulatory Developments

Effective January 24, 2023, the SEC adopted rule and form amendments to require mutual funds and ETFs to transmit concise and visually engaging streamlined annual and semiannual reports to shareholders that highlight key information deemed important for retail investors to assess and monitor their fund investments (the “Rule”). Other information, including financial statements, will no longer appear in the funds’ streamlined shareholder reports but must be available online, delivered free of charge upon request, and filed on a semiannual basis on Form N-CSR. The Rule and form amendments have a compliance date of July 24, 2024. At this time, management is evaluating the Rule and its impact to the Fund.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors of Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc. and Shareholders of PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, of PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund (the “Fund”) as of August 31, 2023, the related statement of operations for the year ended August 31, 2023, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended August 31, 2023, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the three years in the period ended August 31, 2023 (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of August 31, 2023, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended August 31, 2023 and the financial highlights for each of the three years in the period ended August 31, 2023 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The financial statements of the Fund as of and for the year ended August 31, 2020 and the financial highlights for each of the periods ended on or prior to August 31, 2020 (not presented herein, other than the financial highlights, prior to the reflection of the reverse stock split as described in Note 7) were audited by other auditors whose report dated October 15, 2020 expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements and financial highlights.

We also have audited the adjustments to the financial highlights for the years ended August 31, 2020 and August 31, 2019 to reflect the reverse stock split, as described in Note 7. In our opinion, such adjustments are appropriate and have been properly applied. We were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to the 2020 or 2019 financial statements and financial highlights of the Fund other than with respect to the adjustments and, accordingly, we do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance on the 2020 or 2019 financial statements and financial highlights taken as a whole.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of August 31, 2023 by correspondence with the custodian, transfer agent and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

October 17, 2023

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in the PGIM Retail Funds complex since 2020.

 

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Tax Information (unaudited)

 

We are advising you that during the year ended August 31, 2023, the Fund reports the maximum amount allowed per share, but not less than $0.24 for Class A, C, R, Z, R2, R4 and R6 shares as a capital gain distribution in accordance with Section 852(b)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code.

In January 2024, you will be advised on IRS Form 1099-DIV or substitute 1099-DIV as to the federal tax status of the distributions received by you in calendar year 2023.

 

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Liquidity Risk Management Program (unaudited)

Consistent with Rule 22e-4 under the 1940 Act (the “Liquidity Rule”), the Fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “LRMP”). The Fund’s LRMP seeks to assess and manage the Fund’s liquidity risk, which is defined as the risk that the Fund is unable to meet investor redemption requests without significantly diluting the remaining investors’ interests in the Fund. The Board has approved PGIM Investments, the Fund’s investment manager, to serve as the administrator of the Fund’s LRMP. As part of its responsibilities as administrator, PGIM Investments has retained a third party to perform certain functions, including providing market data and liquidity classification model information.

The Fund’s LRMP includes a number of processes designed to support the assessment and management of its liquidity risk. In particular, the Fund’s LRMP includes no less than annual assessments of factors that influence the Fund’s liquidity risk; no less than monthly classifications of the Fund’s investments into one of four liquidity classifications provided for in the Liquidity Rule; a 15% of net assets limit on the acquisition of “illiquid investments” (as defined under the Liquidity Rule); establishment of a minimum percentage of the Fund’s assets to be invested in investments classified as “highly liquid” (as defined under the Liquidity Rule) if the Fund does not invest primarily in highly liquid investments; and regular reporting to the Board.

At a meeting of the Board on March 7-9, 2023, PGIM Investments provided a written report (“LRMP Report”) to the Board addressing the operation, adequacy, and effectiveness of the Fund’s LRMP, including any material changes to the LRMP for the period from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022 (“Reporting Period”). The LRMP Report concluded that the Fund’s LRMP was reasonably designed to assess and manage the Fund’s liquidity risk and was adequately and effectively implemented during the Reporting Period. There were no material changes to the LRMP during the Reporting Period. The LRMP Report further concluded that the Fund’s investment strategies continue to be appropriate given the Fund’s status as an open-end fund.

There can be no assurance that the LRMP will achieve its objectives in the future. Additional information regarding risks of investing in the Fund, including liquidity risks presented by the Fund’s investment portfolio, is found in the Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.

 

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INFORMATION ABOUT BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS (unaudited)

Information about Board Members and Officers of the Fund is set forth below. Board Members who are not deemed to be “interested persons” of the Fund, as defined in the 1940 Act, are referred to as “Independent Board Members.” Board Members who are deemed to be “interested persons” of the Fund are referred to as “Interested Board Members.” The Board Members are responsible for the overall supervision of the operations of the Fund and perform the various duties imposed on the directors of investment companies by the 1940 Act. The Board in turn elects the Officers, who are responsible for administering the day-to-day operations of the Fund.

 

 
  Independent Board Members       
       

Name

Year of Birth

Position(s)

Portfolios Overseen

 

Principal Occupation(s)

During Past Five Years

 

Other Directorships

Held During

Past Five Years

  

Length of

Board Service

       

Ellen S. Alberding

1958

Board Member

Portfolios Overseen: 99

  Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and President, The Joyce Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 2002); formerly Vice Chair, City Colleges of Chicago (community college system) (2011-2015); formerly Trustee, National Park Foundation (charitable foundation for national park system) (2009-2018); formerly Trustee, Economic Club of Chicago (2009-2016); Trustee, Loyola University (since 2018).   None.    Since September 2013
       

Kevin J. Bannon

1952

Board Member

Portfolios Overseen: 100

  Retired; formerly Managing Director (April 2008-May 2015) and Chief Investment Officer (October 2008-November 2013) of Highmount Capital LLC (registered investment adviser); formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer (April 1993-August 2007) of Bank of New York Company; formerly President (May 2003-May 2007) of BNY Hamilton Family of Mutual Funds.   Director of Urstadt Biddle Properties (equity real estate investment trust) (since September 2008).    Since July 2008

 

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund


 
  Independent Board Members       
       

Name

Year of Birth

Position(s)

Portfolios Overseen

 

Principal Occupation(s)

During Past Five Years

 

Other Directorships

Held During

Past Five Years

  

Length of

Board Service

       

Linda W. Bynoe

1952

Board Member

Portfolios Overseen: 97

  President and Chief Executive Officer (since March 1995) and formerly Chief Operating Officer (December 1989-February 1995) of Telemat Limited LLC (formerly Telemat Ltd) (management consulting); formerly Vice President (January 1985-June 1989) at Morgan Stanley & Co. (broker-dealer).   Trustee of Equity Residential (residential real estate) (since December 2009); Director of Northern Trust Corporation (financial services) (since April 2006); formerly Director of Anixter International, Inc. (communication products distributor) (January 2006-June 2020).    Since March 2005
       

Barry H. Evans

1960

Board Member

Portfolios Overseen: 100

  Retired; formerly President (2005-2016), Global Chief Operating Officer (2014-2016), Chief Investment Officer - Global Head of Fixed Income (1998-2014), and various portfolio manager roles (1986-2006), Manulife Asset Management (asset management).   Formerly Director, Manulife Trust Company (2011-2018); formerly Director, Manulife Asset Management Limited (2015-2017); formerly Chairman of the Board of Directors of Manulife Asset Management U.S. (2005-2016); formerly Chairman of the Board, Declaration Investment Management and Research (2008-2016).    Since September 2017
       

Keith F. Hartstein

1956

Board Member & Independent Chair

Portfolios Overseen: 100

  Retired; formerly Member (November 2014-September 2022) of the Governing Council of the Independent Directors Council (IDC) (organization of independent mutual fund directors); formerly Executive Committee of the IDC Board of Governors (October 2019-December 2021); formerly President and Chief Executive Officer (2005-2012), Senior Vice President (2004-2005), Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing (1997-2004), and various executive management positions (1990-1997), John Hancock Funds, LLC (asset management); formerly Chairman, Investment Company Institute’s Sales Force Marketing Committee (2003-2008).   None.    Since September 2013

 

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  Independent Board Members       
       

Name

Year of Birth

Position(s)

Portfolios Overseen

 

Principal Occupation(s)

During Past Five Years

 

Other Directorships

Held During

Past Five Years

  

Length of

Board Service

       

Laurie Simon Hodrick

1962

Board Member

Portfolios Overseen: 97

  A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emerita of Economics in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School (since 2018); Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (since 2015); Sole Member, ReidCourt LLC (since 2008) (a consulting firm); formerly Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School (2015-2021); formerly A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School (1996-2017); formerly Managing Director, Global Head of Alternative Investment Strategies, Deutsche Bank (2006-2008).   Independent Director, Andela (since January 2022) (global talent network); Independent Director, Roku (since December 2020) (communication services); formerly Independent Director, Synnex Corporation (2019-2021) (information technology); formerly Independent Director, Kabbage, Inc. (2018-2020) (financial services); formerly Independent Director, Corporate Capital Trust (2017-2018) (a business development company).    Since September 2017
       

Brian K. Reid

1961

Board Member

Portfolios Overseen: 100

  Retired; formerly Chief Economist for the Investment Company Institute (ICI) (2005-2017); formerly Senior Economist and Director of Industry and Financial Analysis at the ICI (1998-2004); formerly Senior Economist, Industry and Financial Analysis at the ICI (1996-1998); formerly Staff Economist at the Federal Reserve Board (1989-1996); formerly Director, ICI Mutual Insurance Company (2012-2017).   None.    Since March 2018

 

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  Independent Board Members       
       

Name

Year of Birth

Position(s)

Portfolios Overseen

 

Principal Occupation(s)

During Past Five Years

 

Other Directorships

Held During

Past Five Years

  

Length of

Board Service

       

Grace C. Torres

1959

Board Member

Portfolios Overseen: 100

  Retired; formerly Treasurer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of the PGIM Funds, Target Funds, Advanced Series Trust, Prudential Variable Contract Accounts and The Prudential Series Fund (1998-June 2014); Assistant Treasurer (March 1999-June 2014) and Senior Vice President (September 1999-June 2014) of PGIM Investments LLC; Assistant Treasurer (May 2003-June 2014) and Vice President (June 2005-June 2014) of AST Investment Services, Inc.; Senior Vice President and Assistant Treasurer (May 2003-June 2014) of Prudential Annuities Advisory Services, Inc.   Director (since January 2018) of OceanFirst Financial Corp. and OceanFirst Bank; formerly Director (July 2015-January 2018) of Sun Bancorp, Inc. N.A. and Sun National Bank.    Since November 2014

 

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  Interested Board Members       
       

Name

Year of Birth

Position(s)

Portfolios Overseen

 

Principal Occupation(s)

During Past Five Years

 

Other Directorships

Held During

Past Five Years

  

Length of

Board Service

       

Stuart S. Parker

1962

Board Member & President

Portfolios Overseen: 100

  President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Officer in Charge of PGIM Investments LLC (formerly known as Prudential Investments LLC) (since January 2012); President and Principal Executive Officer (“PEO”) (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; President and PEO (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; formerly Executive Vice President of Jennison Associates LLC and Head of Retail Distribution of PGIM Investments LLC (June 2005-December 2011); Investment Company Institute - Board of Governors (since May 2012).   None.    Since January 2012
       

Scott E. Benjamin

1973

Board Member & Vice President

Portfolios Overseen: 100

  Executive Vice President (since May 2009) of PGIM Investments LLC; Vice President (since June 2012) of Prudential Investment Management Services LLC; Executive Vice President (since September 2009) of AST Investment Services, Inc.; Senior Vice President of Product Development and Marketing, PGIM Investments (since February 2006); Vice President (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Vice President (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; formerly Vice President of Product Development and Product Management, PGIM Investments LLC (2003-2006).   None.    Since March 2010

 

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  Fund Officers(a)     
     

Name

Year of Birth

Fund Position

   Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years   

Length of

Service as Fund

Officer

     

Claudia DiGiacomo

1974

Chief Legal Officer

   Chief Legal Officer (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Chief Legal Officer (since July 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; Chief Legal Officer, Executive Vice President and Secretary of PGIM Investments LLC (since August 2020); Chief Legal Officer of Prudential Mutual Fund Services LLC (since August 2020); Chief Legal Officer of PIFM Holdco, LLC (since August 2020); Vice President and Corporate Counsel (since January 2005) of Prudential; and Corporate Counsel of AST Investment Services, Inc. (since August 2020); formerly Vice President and Assistant Secretary of PGIM Investments LLC (2005-2020); formerly Associate at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP (1999-2004).    Since December 2005
     

Andrew Donohue

1972

Chief Compliance Officer

   Chief Compliance Officer (since May 2023) of the PGIM Funds, Target Funds, PGIM ETF Trust, PGIM Global High Yield Fund, Inc., PGIM High Yield Bond Fund, Inc., PGIM Short Duration High Yield Opportunities Fund, Advanced Series Trust, The Prudential Series Fund, Prudential’s Gibraltar Fund, Inc., PGIM Private Credit Fund, PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; Chief Compliance Officer of AST Investment Services, Inc. (since October 2022); Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer of PGIM Investments LLC (since September 2022); formerly various senior compliance roles within Principal Global Investors, LLC., global asset management for Principal Financial (2011-2022), most recently as Global Chief Compliance Officer (2016-2022).   

Since May

2023

     

Andrew R. French

1962

Secretary

   Vice President (since December 2018) of PGIM Investments LLC; Secretary (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Secretary (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; formerly Vice President and Corporate Counsel (2010-2018) of Prudential; formerly Director and Corporate Counsel (2006-2010) of Prudential; Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since January 2007) of PGIM Investments LLC; Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since January 2007) of Prudential Mutual Fund Services LLC.   

Since October

2006

     

Melissa Gonzalez

1980

Assistant Secretary

   Vice President and Corporate Counsel (since September 2018) of Prudential; Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since August 2020) of PGIM Investments LLC; Assistant Secretary (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Assistant Secretary (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; formerly Director and Corporate Counsel (March 2014-September 2018) of Prudential.   

Since March

2020

 

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  Fund Officers(a)     
     

Name

Year of Birth

Fund Position

   Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years   

Length of

Service as Fund

Officer

     

Patrick E. McGuinness

1986

Assistant Secretary

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary (since August 2020) of PGIM Investments LLC; Director and Corporate Counsel (since February 2017) of Prudential; Assistant Secretary (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Assistant Secretary (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.   

Since June

2020

     

Debra Rubano

1975

Assistant Secretary

   Vice President and Corporate Counsel (since November 2020) of Prudential; Assistant Secretary (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Assistant Secretary (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc; formerly Director and Senior Counsel of Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC (2010-2020) and Assistant Secretary of numerous funds in the Allianz fund complex (2015-2020).   

Since December

2020

     

Kelly A. Coyne

1968

Assistant Secretary

   Director, Investment Operations of Prudential Mutual Fund Services LLC (since 2010); Assistant Secretary (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Assistant Secretary (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.   

Since March

2015

     

Christian J. Kelly

1975

Chief Financial Officer

   Vice President, Global Head of Fund Administration of PGIM Investments LLC (since November 2018); Chief Financial Officer (since March 2023) of PGIM Investments mutual funds, closed end funds and ETFs, Advanced Series Trust Portfolios, Prudential Series Funds and Prudential Gibraltar Fund; Chief Financial Officer of PGIM Private Credit Fund (since September 2022); Chief Financial Officer of PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc. (since July 2022); formerly Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer (January 2019- March 2023) of PGIM Investments mutual funds, closed end funds and ETFs, Advanced Series Trust Portfolios, Prudential Series Funds and Prudential Gibraltar Fund; formerly Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer (March 2022 – July 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; formerly Director of Fund Administration of Lord Abbett & Co. LLC (2009-2018), Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of the Lord Abbett Family of Funds (2017-2018); Director of Accounting, Avenue Capital Group (2008-2009); Senior Manager, Investment Management Practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP (1998-2007).   

Since January

2019

 

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  Fund Officers(a)     
     

Name

Year of Birth

Fund Position

   Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years   

Length of

Service as Fund

Officer

     

Russ Shupak

1973

Treasurer and Principal
Accounting Officer

   Vice President (since 2017) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration; Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of PGIM Investments mutual funds, closed end funds and ETFs (since March 2023); Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer (since July 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; Assistant Treasurer (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; formerly Assistant Treasurer (March 2022 – July 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; Assistant Treasurer of Advanced Series Trust Portfolios, Prudential Series Funds and Prudential Gibraltar Fund (since October 2019); formerly Director (2013-2017) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration.   

Since October

2019

     

Lana Lomuti

1967

Assistant Treasurer

   Vice President (since 2007) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration; formerly Assistant Treasurer (December 2007-February 2014) of The Greater China Fund, Inc.; formerly Director (2005-2007) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration.   

Since April

2014

     

Deborah Conway

1969

Assistant Treasurer

   Vice President (since 2017) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration; Assistant Treasurer (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Assistant Treasurer (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; formerly Director (2007-2017) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration.   

Since October

2019

     

Elyse M. McLaughlin

1974

Assistant Treasurer

   Vice President (since 2017) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration; Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of the Advanced Series Trust, the Prudential Series Fund and the Prudential Gibraltar Fund (since March 2023); Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Assistant Treasurer (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; Assistant Treasurer of PGIM Investments mutual funds, closed end funds and ETFs (since October 2019); formerly Director (2011-2017) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration.   

Since October

2019

     

Robert W. McCormack

1973

Assistant Treasurer

   Vice President (since 2019) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration; Assistant Treasurer (Since March 2023) of PGIM Investments mutual funds, closed end funds, ETFs, Advanced Series Trust Portfolios, Prudential Series Funds and Prudential Gibraltar Fund; Assistant Treasurer (since September 2022) of the PGIM Private Credit Fund; Assistant Treasurer (since March 2022) of the PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc.; formerly Director (2016-2019) within PGIM Investments Fund Administration; formerly Vice President within Goldman, Sachs & Co. Investment Management Controllers (2008- 2016), Assistant Treasurer of Goldman Sachs Family of Funds (2015-2016).   

Since March

2023

 

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  Fund Officers(a)     
     

Name

Year of Birth

Fund Position

   Principal Occupation(s) During Past Five Years   

Length of

Service as Fund

Officer

     

Kelly Florio

1978

Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer

   Vice President, Corporate Compliance, Global Compliance Programs and Compliance Risk Management (since December 2021) of Prudential; formerly Head of Fraud Risk Management (October 2019 to December 2021) at New York Life Insurance Company; formerly Head of Key Risk Area Operations (November 2018 to October 2019), Director of the US Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Unit (2009-2018) and Bank Loss Prevention Associate (2006 -2009) at MetLife.   

Since June

2022

(a) Excludes Mr. Parker and Mr. Benjamin, interested Board Members who also serve as President and Vice President, respectively.

Explanatory Notes to Tables:

 

Board Members are deemed to be “Interested,” as defined in the 1940 Act, by reason of their affiliation with PGIM Investments LLC and/or an affiliate of PGIM Investments LLC.

Unless otherwise noted, the address of all Board Members and Officers is c/o PGIM Investments LLC, 655 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102-4410.

There is no set term of office for Board Members or Officers. The Board Members have adopted a retirement policy, which calls for the retirement of Board Members on December 31 of the year in which they reach the age of 75.

“Other Directorships Held” includes all directorships of companies required to register or file reports with the SEC under the 1934 Act (that is, “public companies”) or other investment companies registered under the 1940 Act.

“Portfolios Overseen” includes such applicable investment companies managed by PGIM Investments LLC and overseen by the trustee/director. The investment companies for which PGIM Investments LLC serves as manager include the PGIM Mutual Funds, Target Funds, PGIM ETF Trust, PGIM Private Real Estate Fund, Inc., PGIM Private Credit Fund, PGIM High Yield Bond Fund, Inc., PGIM Global High Yield Fund, Inc., PGIM Short Duration High Yield Opportunities Fund, The Prudential Series Fund, Prudential’s Gibraltar Fund, Inc. and the Advanced Series Trust.

As used in the Fund Officers table “Prudential” means The Prudential Insurance Company of America.

 

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund


Approval of Advisory Agreements (unaudited)

 

The Fund’s Board of Directors

The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund (the “Fund”)1 consists of ten individuals, eight of whom are not “interested persons” of the Fund, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) (the “Independent Directors”). The Board is responsible for the oversight of the Fund and its operations, and performs the various duties imposed on the directors of investment companies by the 1940 Act. The Independent Directors have retained independent legal counsel to assist them in connection with their duties. The Chair of the Board is an Independent Director. The Board has established five standing committees: the Audit Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee, the Compliance Committee and two Investment Committees. Each committee is chaired by, and composed of, Independent Directors.

Annual Approval of the Fund’s Advisory Agreements

As required under the 1940 Act, the Board determines annually whether to renew the Fund’s management agreement with PGIM Investments LLC (“PGIM Investments”) and the Fund’s subadvisory agreement with Jennison Associates LLC (“Jennison”). In considering the renewal of the agreements, the Board, including all of the Independent Directors, met on May 25 and June 6-8, 2023 (the “Board Meeting”) and approved the renewal of the agreements through July 31, 2024, after concluding that the renewal of the agreements was in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders.

In advance of the meetings, the Board requested and received materials relating to the agreements, and had the opportunity to ask questions and request further information in connection with its consideration. Among other things, the Board considered comparative fee information from PGIM Investments and Jennison. Also, the Board considered comparisons with other mutual funds in relevant Peer Universes and Peer Groups, as is further discussed below.

In approving the agreements, the Board, including the Independent Directors advised by independent legal counsel, considered the factors it deemed relevant, including the nature, quality and extent of services provided by PGIM Investments and the subadviser, the performance of the Fund, the profitability of PGIM Investments and its affiliates, expenses and fees, and the potential for economies of scale that may be shared with the Fund and its shareholders as the Fund’s assets grow. In their deliberations, the Directors did not identify any single factor which alone was responsible for the Board’s decision to approve the agreements with respect to the Fund. In connection with its deliberations, the Board considered information provided by PGIM Investments throughout the year at regular Board meetings, presentations from portfolio managers and other information, as well as information furnished at or in advance of the Board Meeting.

The Directors determined that the overall arrangements between the Fund and PGIM Investments, which serves as the Fund’s investment manager pursuant to a

 

1 PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund is the sole series of Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.

 

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund


Approval of Advisory Agreements (continued)

 

management agreement, and between PGIM Investments and Jennison, which serves as the Fund’s subadviser pursuant to the terms of a subadvisory agreement with PGIM Investments, are in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders in light of the services performed, fees charged and such other matters as the Directors considered relevant in the exercise of their business judgment.

The material factors and conclusions that formed the basis for the Directors’ reaching their determinations to approve the continuance of the agreements are separately discussed below.

Nature, Quality and Extent of Services

The Board received and considered information regarding the nature, quality and extent of services provided to the Fund by PGIM Investments and Jennison. The Board noted that Jennison is affiliated with PGIM Investments. The Board considered the services provided by PGIM Investments, including but not limited to the oversight of the subadviser for the Fund, as well as the provision of fund recordkeeping, compliance and other services to the Fund, and PGIM Investments’ role as administrator for the Fund’s liquidity risk management program. With respect to PGIM Investments’ oversight of the subadviser, the Board noted that PGIM Investments’ Strategic Investment Research Group (“SIRG”), which is a business unit of PGIM Investments, is responsible for monitoring and reporting to PGIM Investments’ senior management on the performance and operations of the subadviser. The Board also considered that PGIM Investments pays the salaries of all of the officers and interested Directors of the Fund who are part of Fund management. The Board also considered the investment subadvisory services provided by Jennison, including investment research and security selection, as well as adherence to the Fund’s investment restrictions and compliance with applicable Fund policies and procedures. The Board considered PGIM Investments’ evaluation of the subadviser, as well as PGIM Investments’ recommendation, based on its review of the subadviser, to renew the subadvisory agreement.

The Board considered the qualifications, backgrounds and responsibilities of PGIM Investments’ senior management responsible for the oversight of the Fund and Jennison, and also considered the qualifications, backgrounds and responsibilities of Jennison’s portfolio managers who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio. The Board was provided with information pertaining to PGIM Investments’ and Jennison’s organizational structure, senior management, investment operations, and other relevant information pertaining to both PGIM Investments and Jennison. The Board also noted that it received favorable compliance reports from the Fund’s Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) as to both PGIM Investments and Jennison.

The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of the investment management services provided by PGIM Investments and the subadvisory services provided to the Fund by Jennison, and that there was a reasonable basis on which to conclude that the Fund benefits from the services provided by PGIM Investments and Jennison under the management and subadvisory agreements.

 

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Costs of Services and Profits Realized by PGIM Investments

The Board was provided with information on the profitability of PGIM Investments and its affiliates in serving as the Fund’s investment manager. The Board discussed with PGIM Investments the methodology utilized in assembling the information regarding profitability and considered its reasonableness. The Board recognized that it is difficult to make comparisons of profitability from fund management contracts because comparative information is not generally publicly available and is affected by numerous factors, including the structure of the particular adviser, the types of funds it manages, its business mix, numerous assumptions regarding allocations and the adviser’s capital structure and cost of capital. Taking these factors into account, the Board concluded that the profitability of PGIM Investments and its affiliates in relation to the services rendered was not unreasonable.

Economies of Scale

The Board received and discussed information concerning economies of scale that PGIM Investments may realize as the Fund’s assets grow beyond current levels. The Board noted that the management fee schedule for the Fund includes breakpoints, which have the effect of decreasing the fee rate as assets increase. During the course of time, the Board has considered information regarding the launch date of the Fund, the management fees of the Fund compared to those of similarly managed funds and PGIM Investments’ investment in the Fund over time. The Board noted that economies of scale can be shared with the Fund in other ways, including low management fees from inception, additional technological and personnel investments to enhance shareholder services, and maintaining existing expense structures in the face of a rising cost environment. The Board also considered PGIM Investments’ assertion that it continually evaluates the management fee schedule of the Fund and the potential to share economies of scale through breakpoints or fee waivers as asset levels increase.

The Board recognized the inherent limitations of any analysis of economies of scale, stemming largely from the Board’s understanding that most of PGIM Investments’ costs are not specific to individual funds, but rather are incurred across a variety of products and services.

Other Benefits to PGIM Investments and Jennison

The Board considered potential ancillary benefits that might be received by PGIM Investments, Jennison and their affiliates as a result of their relationship with the Fund. The Board concluded that potential benefits to be derived by PGIM Investments included transfer agency fees received by the Fund’s transfer agent (which is affiliated with PGIM Investments), as well as benefits to its reputation or other intangible benefits resulting from PGIM Investments’ association with the Fund. The Board concluded that the potential benefits to be derived by Jennison included its ability to use soft dollar credits, as well as the potential benefits consistent with those generally resulting from an increase in assets under management, specifically, potential access to additional research resources and benefits to its reputation. The Board concluded that the benefits

 

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund


Approval of Advisory Agreements (continued)

 

derived by PGIM Investments and Jennison were consistent with the types of benefits generally derived by investment managers and subadvisers to mutual funds.

Performance of the Fund / Fees and Expenses

The Board considered certain additional factors and made related conclusions relating to the historical performance of the Fund for the one-, three-, five- and ten-year periods ended December 31, 2022.

The Board also considered the Fund’s actual management fee, as well as the Fund’s net total expense ratio, for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2022. The Board considered the management fee for the Fund as compared to the management fee charged by PGIM Investments to other funds and the fee charged by other advisers to comparable mutual funds in a Peer Group. The actual management fee represents the fee rate actually paid by Fund shareholders and includes any fee waivers or reimbursements. The net total expense ratio for the Fund represents the actual expense ratio incurred by Fund shareholders.

The mutual funds included in the Peer Universe, which was used to consider performance, and the Peer Group, which was used to consider fees and expenses, were objectively determined by Broadridge, an independent provider of mutual fund data. In certain circumstances, PGIM Investments also provided supplemental Peer Universe or Peer Group information for reasons addressed with the Board. The comparisons placed the Fund in various quartiles over various periods, with the first quartile being the best 25% of the mutual funds (for performance, the best performing mutual funds and, for expenses, the lowest cost mutual funds).

The section below summarizes key factors considered by the Board and the Board’s conclusions regarding the Fund’s performance, fees and overall expenses. The table sets forth net performance comparisons (which reflect the impact on performance of fund expenses, or any subsidies, expense caps or waivers that may be applicable) with the Peer Universe, actual management fees with the Peer Group (which reflect the impact of any subsidies or fee waivers), and net total expenses with the Peer Group, each of which were key factors considered by the Board.

 

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Net Performance    1 Year    3 Years    5 Years    10 Years
     1st Quartile    1st Quartile    1st Quartile    3rd Quartile

Actual Management Fees: 1st Quartile

Net Total Expenses: 1st Quartile

 

 

The Board noted that the Fund outperformed its benchmark index over the one-, three-, and five-year periods, though it underperformed over the ten-year period.

 

 

The Board and PGIM Investments agreed to retain the existing contractual expense cap that (exclusive of certain fees and expenses) limits transfer agency, shareholder servicing, sub-transfer agency and blue sky fees to the extent that such fees cause total annual fund operating expenses to exceed 1.08% for Class R2 shares and 0.83% for Class R4 shares through December 31, 2023.

 

 

In addition, PGIM Investments will waive management fees or shared operating expenses on any share class to the same extent that it waives such expenses on any other share class and has agreed that total annual fund operating expenses for Class R6 shares will not exceed total annual fund operating expenses for Class Z shares.

 

 

The Board concluded that, in light of the above, it would be in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders to renew the agreements.

 

 

The Board concluded that the management fees (including subadvisory fees) and total expenses were reasonable in light of the services provided.

* * *

After full consideration of these factors, the Board concluded that the approval of the agreements was in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders.

 

PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund


MAIL

 

TELEPHONE

  WEBSITE

655 Broad Street

 

(800) 225-1852

 

pgim.com/investments

Newark, NJ 07102

       

 

PROXY VOTING

 

The Board of Directors of the Fund has delegated to the Fund’s subadviser the responsibility for voting any proxies and maintaining proxy recordkeeping with respect to the Fund. A description of these proxy voting policies and procedures is available without charge, upon request, by calling (800) 225-1852 or by visiting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at sec.gov. Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available on the Fund’s website and on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website.

 

DIRECTORS

 

Ellen S. Alberding Kevin J. Bannon Scott E. Benjamin Linda W. Bynoe Barry H. Evans Keith F. Hartstein Laurie Simon Hodrick Stuart S. Parker Brian K. Reid Grace C. Torres

 

OFFICERS

 

Stuart S. Parker, President Scott E. Benjamin, Vice President Christian J. Kelly, Chief Financial Officer Claudia DiGiacomo, Chief Legal Officer Andrew Donohue, Chief Compliance Officer Russ Shupak, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer Kelly Florio, Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer Andrew R. French, Secretary Melissa Gonzalez, Assistant Secretary Kelly A. Coyne, Assistant Secretary Patrick E. McGuinness, Assistant Secretary Debra Rubano, Assistant Secretary Lana Lomuti, Assistant Treasurer Elyse M. McLaughlin, Assistant Treasurer Deborah Conway, Assistant Treasurer Robert W. McCormack, Assistant Treasurer

 

MANAGER

   PGIM Investments LLC    655 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102
    

SUBADVISER

   Jennison Associates LLC    466 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
    

DISTRIBUTOR

   Prudential Investment Management
Services LLC
   655 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102
    

CUSTODIAN

   The Bank of New York Mellon    240 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10286
    

TRANSFER AGENT

   Prudential Mutual Fund Services LLC    PO Box 534432
Pittsburgh, PA 15253
    
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM    PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP    300 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
    

FUND COUNSEL

   Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP    787 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
    


An investor should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the Fund carefully before investing.
The prospectus and summary prospectus contain this and other information about the Fund. An investor may obtain the
prospectus and summary prospectus by visiting our website at pgim.com/investments or by calling (800) 225-1852. The
prospectus and summary prospectus should be read carefully before investing.

 

E-DELIVERY
 
To receive your mutual fund documents online, go to pgim.com/investments/resource/edelivery and enroll. Instead of receiving printed documents by mail, you will receive notification via email when new materials are available. You can cancel your enrollment or change your email address at any time by visiting the website address above.

 

SHAREHOLDER COMMUNICATIONS WITH DIRECTORS
 
Shareholders can communicate directly with the Board of Directors by writing to the Chair of the Board, PGIM Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, PGIM Investments, Attn: Board of Directors, 655 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102. Shareholders can communicate directly with an individual Director by writing to that Director at the same address. Communications are not screened before being delivered to the addressee.

 

AVAILABILITY OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
 
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The Fund’s Form N-PORT filings are available on the Commission’s website at sec.gov.

 

 
The Fund’s Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the Fund’s Directors and is available without charge, upon request, by calling (800) 225-1852.

 

 Mutual Funds:

 

     

ARE NOT INSURED BY THE FDIC OR ANY

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY

   MAY LOSE VALUE   

ARE NOT A DEPOSIT OF OR GUARANTEED

BY ANY BANK OR ANY BANK AFFILIATE


LOGO

 

 

 

PGIM JENNISON MID-CAP GROWTH FUND
 SHARE CLASS    A    C    R    Z    R2    R4    R6

 NASDAQ

   PEEAX    PEGCX    JDERX    PEGZX    PEGEX    PEGGX    PJGQX

 CUSIP

   74441C105    74441C303    74441C600    74441C808    74441C865    74441C857    74441C881

MF173E


Item 2 – Code of Ethics — See Exhibit (a)

As of the end of the period covered by this report, the registrant has adopted a code of ethics (the “Section 406 Standards for Investment Companies – Ethical Standards for Principal Executive and Financial Officers”) that applies to the registrant’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer; the registrant’s Principal Financial Officer also serves as the Principal Accounting Officer.

The registrant hereby undertakes to provide any person, without charge, upon request, a copy of the code of ethics. To request a copy of the code of ethics, contact the registrant 800-225-1852, and ask for a copy of the Section 406 Standards for Investment Companies - Ethical Standards for Principal Executive and Financial Officers.

Item 3 – Audit Committee Financial Expert –

The registrant’s Board has determined that Ms. Grace C. Torres, member of the Board’s Audit Committee is an “audit committee financial expert,” and that she is “independent,” for purposes of this item.

Item 4 – Principal Accountant Fees and Services –

(a) Audit Fees

For the fiscal years ended August 31, 2023 and August 31, 2022, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), the Registrant’s principal accountant, billed the Registrant $24,000 and $24,000, respectively, for professional services rendered for the audit of the Registrant’s annual financial statements or services that are normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings.

(b) Audit-Related Fees

For the fiscal years ended August 31, 2023 and August 31, 2022: none.

(c) Tax Fees

For the fiscal years ended August 31, 2023 and August 31, 2022: none.

(d) All Other Fees

For the fiscal years ended August 31, 2023 and August 31, 2022: none.

(e) (1) Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures


THE PGIM MUTUAL FUNDS

AUDIT COMMITTEE POLICY

on

Pre-Approval of Services Provided by the Independent Accountants

The Audit Committee of each PGIM Mutual Fund is charged with the responsibility to monitor the independence of the Fund’s independent accountants. As part of this responsibility, the Audit Committee must pre-approve the independent accounting firm’s engagement to render audit and/or permissible non-audit services, as required by law. In evaluating a proposed engagement of the independent accountants, the Audit Committee will assess the effect that the engagement might reasonably be expected to have on the accountant’s independence. The Committee’s evaluation will be based on:

 

   

a review of the nature of the professional services expected to be provided,

 

   

a review of the safeguards put into place by the accounting firm to safeguard independence, and

 

   

periodic meetings with the accounting firm.

Policy for Audit and Non-Audit Services Provided to the Funds

On an annual basis, the scope of audits for each Fund, audit fees and expenses, and audit-related and non-audit services (and fees proposed in respect thereof) proposed to be performed by the Fund’s independent accountants will be presented by the Treasurer and the independent accountants to the Audit Committee for review and, as appropriate, approval prior to the initiation of such services. Such presentation shall be accompanied by confirmation by both the Treasurer and the independent accountants that the proposed non-audit services will not adversely affect the independence of the independent accountants. Such proposed non-audit services shall be described in sufficient detail to enable the Audit Committee to assess the appropriateness of such services and fees, and the compatibility of the provision of such services with the auditor’s independence. The Committee shall receive periodic reports on the progress of the audit and other services which are approved by the Committee or by the Committee Chair pursuant to authority delegated in this Policy.

The categories of services enumerated under “Audit Services”, “Audit-related Services”, and “Tax Services” are intended to provide guidance to the Treasurer and the independent accountants as to those categories of services which the Committee believes are generally consistent with the independence of the independent accountants and which the Committee (or the Committee Chair) would expect upon the presentation of specific proposals to pre-approve. The enumerated categories are not intended as an exclusive list of audit, audit-related or tax services, which the Committee (or the Committee Chair) would consider for pre-approval.

Audit Services

The following categories of audit services are considered to be consistent with the role of the Fund’s independent accountants:

 

   

Annual Fund financial statement audits

 

   

Seed audits (related to new product filings, as required)

 

   

SEC and regulatory filings and consents

Audit-related Services

The following categories of audit-related services are considered to be consistent with the role of the Fund’s independent accountants:

 

   

Accounting consultations

 

   

Fund merger support services

 

   

Agreed Upon Procedure Reports

 

   

Attestation Reports

 

   

Other Internal Control Reports

Individual audit-related services that fall within one of these categories (except for fund merger support services) and are not presented to the Audit Committee as part of the annual pre-approval process are subject to an authorized pre-approval by the Audit Committee so long as the estimated fee for those services does not exceed $30,000. Any services provided under such pre-approval will be reported to the Audit Committee at its next regular meeting. Should the amount of such services exceed


$30,000 any additional fees will be subject to pre-approval by the Committee Chair (or any other Committee member on whom this responsibility has been delegated). Fees related to fund merger support services are subject to a separate authorized pre-approval by the Audit Committee with fees determined on a per occurrence and merger complexity basis.

Tax Services

The following categories of tax services are considered to be consistent with the role of the Fund’s independent accountants:

 

   

Tax compliance services related to the filing or amendment of the following:

 

   

Federal, state and local income tax compliance; and,

 

   

Sales and use tax compliance

 

   

Timely RIC qualification reviews

 

   

Tax distribution analysis and planning

 

   

Tax authority examination services

 

   

Tax appeals support services

 

   

Accounting methods studies

 

   

Fund merger support services

 

   

Tax consulting services and related projects

Individual tax services that fall within one of these categories and are not presented to the Audit Committee as part of the annual pre-approval process are subject to an authorized pre-approval by the Audit Committee so long as the estimated fee for those services does not exceed $30,000. Any services provided under such pre-approval will be reported to the Audit Committee at its next regular meeting. Should the amount of such services exceed $30,000 any additional fees will be subject to pre-approval by the Committee Chair (or any other Committee member on whom this responsibility has been delegated).

Other Non-Audit Services

Certain non-audit services that the independent accountants are legally permitted to render will be subject to pre-approval by the Committee or by one or more Committee members to whom the Committee has delegated this authority and who will report to the full Committee any pre-approval decisions made pursuant to this Policy. Non-audit services presented for pre-approval pursuant to this paragraph will be accompanied by a confirmation from both the Treasurer and the independent accountants that the proposed services will not adversely affect the independence of the independent accountants.

Proscribed Services

The Fund’s independent accountants will not render services in the following categories of non-audit services:

 

   

Bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of the Fund

 

   

Financial information systems design and implementation

 

   

Appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions, or contribution-in-kind reports

 

   

Actuarial services

 

   

Internal audit outsourcing services

 

   

Management functions or human resources

 

   

Broker or dealer, investment adviser, or investment banking services

 

   

Legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit

 

   

Any other service that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board determines, by regulation, is impermissible.

Pre-approval of Non-Audit Services Provided to Other Entities Within the PGIM Fund Complex

Certain non-audit services provided to PGIM Investments LLC or any of its affiliates that also provide ongoing services to


the PGIM Mutual Funds will be subject to pre-approval by the Audit Committee. The only non-audit services provided to these entities that will require pre-approval are those related directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Funds. Individual projects that are not presented to the Audit Committee as part of the annual pre-approval process will be subject to pre-approval by the Committee Chair (or any other Committee member on whom this responsibility has been delegated) so long as the estimated fee for those services does not exceed $30,000. Services presented for pre-approval pursuant to this paragraph will be accompanied by a confirmation from both the Treasurer and the independent accountants that the proposed services will not adversely affect the independence of the independent accountants.

Although the Audit Committee will not pre-approve all services provided to PGIM Investments LLC and its affiliates, the Committee will receive an annual report from the Fund’s independent accounting firm showing the aggregate fees for all services provided to PGIM Investments and its affiliates.

(e) (2) Percentage of services described in each of paragraphs (b) through (d) of this Item that were approved by the audit committee pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X

 

   Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2023    Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2022

4(b)

   Not applicable.    Not applicable.

4(c)

   Not applicable.    Not applicable.

4(d)

   Not applicable.    Not applicable.

(f) Percentage of hours expended attributable to work performed by other than full time employees of principal accountant if greater than 50%.

The percentage of hours expended on the principal accountant’s engagement to audit the registrant’s financial statements for the most recent fiscal year that were attributed to work performed by persons other than the principal accountant’s full-time, permanent employees was 0%.

(g) Non-Audit Fees

The aggregate non-audit fees billed by the Registrant’s principal accountant for services rendered to the registrant’s investment adviser and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the investment adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant for the fiscal years ended August 31, 2023 and August 31, 2022 was $0 and $0, respectively.

(h) Principal Accountant’s Independence

Not applicable as the Registrant’s principal accountant has not provided non-audit services to the registrant’s investment adviser and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the investment adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant that were not pre-approved pursuant to Rule 2-01(c)(7)(ii) of Regulation S-X.

(i) Not applicable.

(j) Not applicable.

Item 5 – Audit Committee of Listed Registrants – Not applicable.

Item 6 – Schedule of Investments – The schedule is included as part of the report to shareholders filed under Item 1 of this Form.

Item 7 – Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies – Not applicable.


Item 8 – Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies – Not applicable.

 

Item 9 –

Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers – Not applicable.

Item 10 – Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders – There have been no material changes to these procedures.

Item 11 – Controls and Procedures

 

  (a)

It is the conclusion of the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer that the effectiveness of the registrant’s current disclosure controls and procedures (such disclosure controls and procedures having been evaluated within 90 days of the date of this filing) provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant has been recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in the Commission’s rules and forms and that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant has been accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer in order to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

  (b)

There has been no significant change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d))) that occurred during the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 12 – Controls and Procedures - Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management Investment Companies – Not applicable.

Item 13 – Exhibits

 

  (a)(1)   Code of Ethics – Attached hereto as Exhibit EX-99.CODE-ETH.
  (a)(2)   Certifications pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act – Attached hereto as Exhibit EX-99.CERT.

(a)(2)(1) Any written solicitation to purchase securities under Rule 23c-1 – Not applicable.

(a)(2)(2) Change in the registrant’s independent public accountant – Not applicable.

 

  (b)   Certifications pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act – Attached hereto as Exhibit EX-99.906CERT.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Registrant:     Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.
By:    /s/ Andrew R. French
   Andrew R. French
   Secretary
Date:    October 17, 2023

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By:        /s/ Stuart S. Parker
   Stuart S. Parker
   President and Principal Executive Officer
Date:    October 17, 2023
By:    /s/ Christian J. Kelly
   Christian J. Kelly
   Treasurer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer
Date:    October 17, 2023