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Victory Diversified Stock Fund
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:20.50pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Diversified Stock Fund Summary</span>
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Investment Objective</span>
The Victory Diversified Stock Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to provide long-term growth of capital.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Fund Fees and Expenses</span>
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your immediate family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Victory Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available in Investing with the Victory Funds on page 14 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix A — Variations in Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers Available Through Certain Intermediaries and from your financial intermediary.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;">Shareholder Fees</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;">(paid directly from your investment)</span>
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;">Annual Fund Operating Expenses</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;">(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)</span>
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Example:</span>
The following example is designed 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 shown and then sell or continue to hold all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. The amounts shown reflect any fee waiver/expense reimbursement in place through its expiration date. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
The example does not reflect sales charges (loads) on reinvested dividends and other distributions. If these sales charges (loads) were included, your costs would be higher.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Portfolio Turnover:</span>
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover will generally indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal period, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 95% of the average value of its portfolio.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Principal Investment Strategy</span>
The Adviser pursues the Fund's investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its assets in common stock, which includes securities convertible or exchangeable into common stock traded on U.S. exchanges. The Fund's investments include securities issued by established, large-cap companies, as well as securities of mid-cap companies. The Fund's investments include foreign securities that are traded in the U.S., including American Depositary and Global Depositary Receipts (ADRs and GDRs).The Fund invests in both growth and value securities:Growth securities are stocks of companies that the Adviser believes will experience earnings growth; andValue securities are stocks that the Adviser believes are intrinsically worth more than their market value.The Adviser employs both a top-down and bottom-up methodology to construct a diversified portfolio that avoids excessive sector and security concentrations. The Adviser pursues investments that it believes are statistically cheap or intrinsically undervalued given growth prospects, while trying to identify the presence of a catalyst for future growth (e.g., acquisition, new products, economic cycle or management change). The Adviser may sell a security if it believes the price objective for the stock has been reached, if more attractive opportunities are identified, or if the fundamentals of the company deteriorate.As a result of the Adviser’s investment process, the Fund’s investments may be focused in one or more economic sectors from time to time, including the information technology sector.As a result of its investment strategy, the Fund may experience annual portfolio turnover in excess of 100%.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Principal Risks</span>
The Fund’s investments are subject to the following principal risks:Equity Risk — The value of the equity securities in which the Fund invests may decline in response to developments affecting individual companies and/or general economic conditions in the United States or abroad. A company’s earnings or dividends may not increase as expected (or may decline) because of poor management, competitive pressures, reliance on particular suppliers or geographical regions, labor problems or shortages, corporate restructurings, fraudulent disclosures, man-made or natural disasters, military confrontations or wars, terrorism, public health crises, or other events, conditions and factors. Price changes may be temporary or last for extended periods.Stock Market Risk — Overall stock market risks may affect the value of the Fund. Domestic and international factors such as political events, war, trade disputes, interest rate levels and other fiscal and monetary policy changes, pandemics and other public health crises and related geopolitical events, as well as environmental disasters such as earthquakes, fires and floods, may add to instability in world economies and markets generally. The impact of these and other factors may be short-term or may last for extended periods.Large-Capitalization Stock Risk — The securities of large-capitalization companies may underperform the securities of smaller-capitalization companies or the market as a whole. The growth rate of larger, more established companies may lag those of smaller companies, especially during periods of economic expansion.Sector Risk — To the extent the Fund focuses in one or more sectors, such as the information technology sector, market or economic factors impacting those sectors could have a significant effect on the value of the Fund’s investments and could make the Fund’s performance more volatile.Information Technology Sector  Risk — The values of companies in the information technology sector are particularly vulnerable to economic downturns, short product cycles and aggressive pricing, market competition and changes in government regulation.Investment Style Risk — Different types of investment styles, for example growth or value, tend to perform differently and shift into and out of favor with investors depending on changes in market and economic sentiment and conditions. As a result, the Fund’s performance may at times be worse than the performance of other mutual funds that invest more broadly or that have different investment styles.Mid-Capitalization Stock Risk — Mid-sized companies may be subject to a number of risks not associated with larger, more established companies, potentially making their stock prices more volatile and increasing the risk of loss.Foreign Securities Risk — Foreign securities (including depositary receipts) are subject to political, regulatory, and economic risks not present in domestic investments. Foreign securities could be affected by factors not present in the U.S., including expropriation, confiscation of property, and difficulties in enforcing contracts. Compared to U.S. companies, there generally is less publicly available information about foreign companies and there may be less governmental regulation and supervision of foreign companies. Foreign securities generally experience more volatility than their domestic counterparts. In addition, to the extent investments are made in a limited number of countries, events in those countries will have a more significant impact on the Fund. Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies, currency exchange control regulations, and restrictions or prohibitions on the repatriation of foreign currencies may negatively affect an investment.Portfolio Turnover Risk — Higher portfolio turnover ratios resulting from additional purchases and sales of portfolio securities will generally result in higher transaction costs and Fund expenses and can lead to distribution of additional short-term capital gains to investors, which are taxed as ordinary income.Management Risk — The portfolio managers may not execute the Fund's principal investment strategy effectively.You may lose money by investing in the Fund. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its objective. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or any other government agency.By itself, the Fund does not constitute a complete investment plan and should be considered a long-term investment for investors who can afford to weather changes in the value of their investment.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:13.12pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Investment Performance</span>
The bar chart and table that follow are intended to help you understand some of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows you how the Fund’s calendar year performance has varied over the past 10 years (or the life of the Fund if shorter). The table compares the Fund’s average annual total returns of the Fund's share classes, including applicable maximum sales charges, over the same period to one or more broad measures of market performance, which have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy. We assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions.Performance data for the classes varies based on differences in their fee and expense structures. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on the Fund’s website at VictoryFunds.com.
<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8.20pt;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0%;">Calendar Year Returns for Class A Shares</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;margin-left:0%;">(Applicable sales loads or account fees are not reflected in the bar chart. If these amounts were </span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;">reflected, returns would be less than those shown.)</span>
During the periods shown in the chart:ReturnsQuarter endedHighest Quarter23.93%June 30, 2020Lowest Quarter-24.43%March 31, 2020
After-tax returns use the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the effect of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant if you own your Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns are shown for only one share class. The after-tax returns for other classes will vary.