MFS Growth Fund | MFS Growth Fund

MFS Growth Fund - Summary of Key Information

Investment Objective

The fund’s investment objective is to seek capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay when you buy and hold shares of the fund. Expenses for Class A, Class B, Class C, Class I, Class R1, Class R2, Class R3, and Class R4 shares have been adjusted to reflect current fee arrangements.

You may qualify for sales charge reductions if you and certain members of your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in MFS Funds. More information about these and other waivers and reductions is available from your financial intermediary and in “Sales Charges and Waivers or Reductions” on page 7 of the fund’s prospectus and “Waivers of Sales Charges” on page I-15 of the fund’s statement of additional information Part I.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):

Shareholder Fees MFS Growth Fund	A		B	C	I	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	5.75%		none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, whichever is less)	1.00%	[1]	4.00%	1.00%	none	none	none	none	none	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):

Annual Fund Operating Expenses MFS Growth Fund	A	B	C	I	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
Management Fee	0.65%	0.65%	0.65%	0.65%	0.65%	0.65%	0.65%	0.65%	0.65%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees	0.25%	1.00%	1.00%	none	1.00%	0.50%	0.25%	none	none
Other Expenses	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.13%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	1.12%	1.87%	1.87%	0.87%	1.87%	1.37%	1.12%	0.87%	0.78%

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The example assumes that: you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and you redeem your shares at the end of the time periods(unless otherwise indicated); your investment has a 5% return each year; and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same.

Although your actual costs will likely be higher or lower, under these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example MFS Growth Fund (USD $)	1 YEAR	3 YEARS	5 YEARS	10 YEARS
A	683	911	1,156	1,860
B	590	888	1,211	1,995
C	290	588	1,011	2,190
I	89	278	482	1,073
R1	190	588	1,011	2,190
R2	139	434	750	1,646
R3	114	356	617	1,363
R4	89	278	482	1,073
R5	80	249	433	966

Expense Example No Redemption MFS Growth Fund (USD $)	1 YEAR	3 YEARS	5 YEARS	10 YEARS
B	190	588	1,011	1,995
C	190	588	1,011	2,190

Portfolio Turnover

The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. These transaction costs, which are not reflected in “Annual Fund Operating Expenses” or in the “Example,” affect the fund’s performance.  During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 50% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

MFS (Massachusetts Financial Services Company, the fund’s investment adviser) normally invests the fund’s assets primarily in equity securities. Equity securities include common stocks, preferred stocks, securities convertible into stocks, and depositary receipts for such securities.

MFS focuses on investing the fund’s assets in the stocks of companies it believes to have above average earnings growth potential compared to other companies (growth companies).

While MFS may invest the fund’s assets in companies of any size, MFS generally focuses on companies with large capitalizations.

MFS may invest the fund’s assets in foreign securities.

MFS uses a bottom-up investment approach to buying and selling investments for the fund. Investments are selected primarily based on fundamental analysis of individual issuers. Quantitative models that systematically evaluate issuers may also be considered.

Principal Risks

As with any mutual fund, the fund may not achieve its objective and/or you could lose money on your investment in the fund. An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency.

The principal risks of investing in the fund are:

Stock Market/Company Risk: Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to issuer, market, economic, industry, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions, as well as to investor perceptions of these conditions. The price of an equity security can decrease significantly in response to these conditions, and these conditions can affect a single issuer or type of security, issuers within a broad market sector, industry or geographic region, or the market in general.

Growth Company Risk:  The stocks of growth companies can be more sensitive to the company’s earnings and more volatile than the market in general.

Foreign Risk:  Exposure to foreign markets through issuers or currencies can involve additional risks relating to market, economic, industry, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions. These factors can make foreign investments, especially those in emerging markets, more volatile and less liquid than U.S. investments. In addition, foreign markets can react differently to these conditions than the U.S. market.

Investment Selection Risk:  MFS’ investment analysis and its selection of investments may not produce the intended results and/or can lead to an investment focus that results in the fund underperforming other funds with similar investment strategies and/or underperforming the markets in which the fund invests.

Liquidity Risk: It may not be possible to sell certain investments, types of investments, and/or segments of the market at any particular time or at an acceptable price.

Performance Information

The bar chart and performance table below are intended to provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the fund’s performance over time and how the fund’s performance over time compares with that of a broad measure of market performance.

The fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the fund will perform in the future. Updated performance is available online at mfs.com or by calling 1-800-225-2606.

The bar chart does not take into account any sales charges (loads) that you may be required to pay upon purchase or redemption of the fund's shares. If these sales charges were included, they would reduce the returns shown.

Class A Bar Chart.

During the period(s) shown in the bar chart, the highest quarterly return was 16.44% (for the calendar quarter ended June 30, 2009) and the lowest quarterly return was (22.04)% (for the calendar quarter ended December 31, 2008).

Performance Table.

Average Annual Total Returns (for the Periods Ended December 31, 2012)

Average Annual Returns MFS Growth Fund	Label	Average Annual Returns, 1 Year	Average Annual Returns, 5 Years	Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
B	B Shares Returns Before Taxes	12.25%	1.89%	8.68%
C	C Shares Returns Before Taxes	15.24%	2.25%	8.52%
I	I Shares Returns Before Taxes	17.34%	3.28%	9.61%
R1	R1 Shares Returns Before Taxes	16.24%	2.25%	8.43%
R2	R2 Shares Returns Before Taxes	16.82%	2.76%	8.95%
R3	R3 Shares Returns Before Taxes	17.12%	3.03%	9.25%
R4	R4 Shares Returns Before Taxes	17.39%	3.29%	9.55%
R5	R5 Shares Returns Before Taxes	17.39%	3.19%	9.50%
A	A Shares Returns Before Taxes	10.37%	1.81%	8.69%
After Taxes on Distributions A	A Shares Returns After Taxes on Distributions	10.37%	1.81%	8.58%
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares A	A Shares Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	6.74%	1.55%	7.72%
Russell 1000 Growth Index	Index Comparison (Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) Russell 1000 Growth Index	15.26%	3.12%	7.52%

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns will depend on your own tax situation, and may differ from those shown. The after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. The after-tax returns are shown for only one of the fund’s classes of shares, and after-tax returns for the fund’s other classes of shares will vary from the returns shown.

[1] On shares purchased without an initial sales charge and redeemed within 18 months of purchase for shares purchased on or after August 1, 2012, and within 24 months of purchase for shares purchased prior to August 1, 2012.