0000805664 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:C000023844Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:C000204718Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:C000023848Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:C000128735Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:C000023847Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member rr:RiskLoseMoneyMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:MarketMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:ForeignSecuritiesnon-USMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:RegionalFocusMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:DevelopingMarketCountriesMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:SmallandMidCapitalizationCompaniesMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:LiquidityMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:ValueStyleInvestingMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:ManagementMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:FocusMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:DerivativeInstrumentsMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:CybersecurityMember 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member rr:AfterTaxesOnDistributionsMember cik0000805664:C000023844Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member rr:AfterTaxesOnDistributionsAndSalesMember cik0000805664:C000023844Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 0000805664 cik0000805664:S000008759Member cik0000805664:MSCIAllCountryWorldIndex-NR1Member 2023-08-31 2023-08-31 iso4217:USD pure utr:Y N-1A Templeton Growth Fund Inc TEMPLETON GROWTH FUND, INC. 2024-01-01 Investment Goal Long-term capital growth. Fees and Expenses of the Fund These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees (including on Class R6 and Advisor Class shares), such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below. You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in Franklin Templeton funds and certain other funds distributed through Franklin Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and under “Your Account” on page 37 in the Fund’s Prospectus and under “Buying and Selling Shares” on page 62 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information. In addition, more information about sales charge discounts and waivers for purchases of shares through specific financial intermediaries is set forth in Appendix A – “Intermediary Sales Charge Discounts and Waivers” to the Fund’s prospectus. You may qualify for sales charge discounts in Class A if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in Franklin Templeton funds and certain other funds distributed through Franklin Distributors, LLC, the Fund’s distributor. 25000 Shareholder Fees 0.0550 0 0 0 0 0 0.0100 0 0 0 Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0069 0.0069 0.0069 0.0069 0.0069 0.0025 0.0100 0.0050 0 0 0.0010 0.0010 0.0010 0.0005 0.0010 0.0104 0.0179 0.0129 0.0074 0.0079 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 then redeem all of your shares at the end of the period. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The Example reflects adjustments made to the Fund's operating expenses due to the fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by management for the 1 Year numbers only. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: 650 862 1092 1752 282 564 970 1909 131 408 707 1556 76 237 412 919 81 253 439 978 If you do not sell your shares: 182 564 970 1909 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 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 year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 33.07% of the average value of its portfolio. 0.3307 Principal Investment Strategies Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests predominantly in the equity securities of companies located anywhere in the world, including developing markets. The equity securities in which the Fund primarily invests are common stock. The Fund may invest in companies of any size, including small and medium capitalization companies. Although the Fund seeks investments across a number of regions, countries and sectors, from time to time, based on economic conditions, the Fund may have significant positions in particular regions, countries or sectors.The Fund may also use a variety of equity-related derivatives, which may include equity futures and equity index futures, for various purposes including enhancing Fund returns, increasing liquidity and gaining exposure to particular markets in more efficient or less expensive ways. The Fund's investment goal is to seek long-term capital growth of the Fund's overall portfolio in accordance with the Fund's name. In pursuing the growth of the Fund's portfolio, the investment manager applies a “bottom-up,” value-oriented, long-term approach, focusing on the market price of a company’s securities relative to the investment manager’s evaluation of the company’s long-term earnings, asset value and cash flow potential. The investment manager also considers a company’s price/earnings ratio, price/cash flow ratio, profit margins and liquidation value.The investment manager may consider selling an equity security when it believes the security has become overvalued due to either its price appreciation or changes in the company’s fundamentals, or when the investment manager believes another security is a more attractive investment opportunity. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests predominantly in the equity securities of companies located anywhere in the world, including developing markets. Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Market: The market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise.The global outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19 and its subsequent variants, has resulted in market closures and dislocations, extreme volatility, liquidity constraints and increased trading costs. The long-term impact on economies, markets, industries and individual issuers is not known. Some sectors of the economy and individual issuers have experienced or may experience particularly large losses. Periods of extreme volatility in the financial markets; reduced liquidity of many instruments; and disruptions to supply chains, consumer demand and employee availability, may continue for some time.Stock prices tend to go up and down more dramatically than those of debt securities. A slower-growth or recessionary economic environment could have an adverse effect on the prices of the various stocks held by the Fund. Foreign Securities (non-U.S.): Investing in foreign securities typically involves more risks than investing in U.S. securities, and includes risks associated with: (i) internal and external political and economic developments – e.g., the political, economic and social policies and structures of some foreign countries may be less stable and more volatile than those in the U.S. or some foreign countries may be subject to trading restrictions or economic sanctions; diplomatic and political developments could affect the economies, industries, and securities and currency markets of the countries in which the Fund is invested, which can include rapid and adverse political changes; social instability; regional conflicts; sanctions imposed by the United States, other nations or other governmental entities, including supranational entities; terrorism; and war; (ii) trading practices – e.g., government supervision and regulation of foreign securities and currency markets, trading systems and brokers may be less than in the U.S.; (iii) availability of information – e.g., foreign issuers may not be subject to the same disclosure, accounting and financial reporting standards and practices as U.S. issuers; (iv) limited markets – e.g., the securities of certain foreign issuers may be less liquid (harder to sell) and more volatile; and (v) currency exchange rate fluctuations and policies – e.g., fluctuations may negatively affect investments denominated in foreign currencies and any income received or expenses paid by the Fund in that foreign currency. The risks of foreign investments may be greater in developing or emerging market countries. Regional Focus: Because the Fund may invest at least a significant portion of its assets in companies in a specific region, including Europe, the Fund is subject to greater risks of adverse developments in that region and/or the surrounding regions than a fund that is more broadly diversified geographically. Political, social or economic disruptions in the region, even in countries in which the Fund is not invested, may adversely affect the value of investments held by the Fund. Current uncertainty concerning the economic consequences of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has increased market volatility. Developing Market Countries: The Fund’s investments in securities of issuers in developing market countries are subject to all of the risks of foreign investing generally, and have additional heightened risks due to a lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets, including: delays in settling portfolio securities transactions; currency and capital controls; greater sensitivity to interest rate changes; pervasiveness of corruption and crime; currency exchange rate volatility; and inflation, deflation or currency devaluation. Small and Mid Capitalization Companies: Securities issued by small and mid capitalization companies may be more volatile in price than those of larger companies and may involve substantial risks. Such risks may include greater sensitivity to economic conditions, less certain growth prospects, lack of depth of management and funds for growth and development, and limited or less developed product lines and markets. In addition, small and mid capitalization companies may be particularly affected by interest rate increases, as they may find it more difficult to borrow money to continue or expand operations, or may have difficulty in repaying any loans. Liquidity: The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile. Value Style Investing: A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the investment manager if other investors fail to recognize the company's value and bid up the price, the markets favor faster-growing companies, or the factors that the investment manager believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect. Management: The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results. Focus: To the extent that the Fund focuses on particular countries, regions, industries, sectors or types of investments from time to time, the Fund may be subject to greater risks of adverse developments in such areas of focus than a fund that invests in a wider variety of countries, regions, industries, sectors or investments. Derivative Instruments: The performance of derivative instruments depends largely on the performance of an underlying instrument, such as a currency, security, interest rate or index, and such instruments often have risks similar to their underlying instrument, in addition to other risks. Derivative instruments involve costs and can create economic leverage in the Fund's portfolio which may result in significant volatility and cause the Fund to participate in losses (as well as gains) in an amount that exceeds the Fund's initial investment. Other risks include illiquidity, mispricing or improper valuation of the derivative instrument, and imperfect correlation between the value of the derivative and the underlying instrument so that the Fund may not realize the intended benefits. When a derivative is used for hedging, the change in value of the derivative may also not correlate specifically with the currency, security, interest rate or other risk being hedged. With over-the-counter derivatives, there is the risk that the other party to the transaction will fail to perform. Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents.Because technology is frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Performance The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or since inception, as applicable, compared with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. You can obtain updated performance information at franklintempleton.com or by calling (800) DIAL BEN/342-5236.Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown. The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows how the Fund's average annual returns for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or since inception, as applicable, compared with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. franklintempleton.com (800) DIAL BEN/342-5236 Sales charges are not reflected in the bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown. Class A Annual Total Returns <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse" width="100%"><tr style="font-size:1pt;"><td style="width:17.33%;"> </td><td style="width:68%;"> </td><td style="width:14.67%;"> </td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top; border-bottom:0.5pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#A7A7A7; border-top:0.5pt; border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:#A7A7A7;">Best Quarter: </td><td style="vertical-align:top; border-bottom:0.5pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#A7A7A7; border-top:0.5pt; border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:#A7A7A7;">2020, Q4</td><td style="vertical-align:top; border-bottom:0.5pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#A7A7A7; border-top:0.5pt; border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:#A7A7A7;">15.91%</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top; border-bottom:0.5pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#A7A7A7; border-top:0.5pt; border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:#A7A7A7;">Worst Quarter: </td><td style="vertical-align:top; border-bottom:0.5pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#A7A7A7; border-top:0.5pt; border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:#A7A7A7;">2020, Q1</td><td style="vertical-align:top; border-bottom:0.5pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#A7A7A7; border-top:0.5pt; border-top-style:solid; border-top-color:#A7A7A7;">-22.02%</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse" width="100%"><tr style="font-size:1pt;"><td style="width:100%;"> </td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top; border-bottom:0.5pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#A7A7A7; font-size:1pt;">As of September 30, 2023, the Fund’s year-to-date return was 8.42%.</td></tr></table> Best Quarter 2020-12-31 0.1591 Worst Quarter 2020-03-31 -0.2202 As of September 30, 2023, the Fund’s year-to-date return was 8.42%. 2023-09-30 0.0842 Average Annual Total Returns (figures reflect sales charges) For periods ended December 31, 2022 Return before taxes -0.1656 -0.0187 0.0340 Return after taxes on distributions -0.1673 -0.0270 0.0280 Return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares -0.0967 -0.0134 0.0276 -0.1324 -0.0150 0.0319 -0.1190 -0.0100 0.0372 -0.1143 -0.0044 0.0346 -0.1146 -0.0050 0.0424 MSCI All Country World Index-NR (index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes but are net of dividend tax withholding) -0.1836 0.0523 0.0798 485BPOS 2023-08-31 0000805664 false 2023-12-27 2024-01-01 0.3015 -0.0191 -0.0646 0.0906 0.178 -0.1454 0.1483 0.0574 0.0512 -0.1171 ~ http://franklintempleton.com/20230831/role/RRSchedule4 ~ ~ http://franklintempleton.com/20230831/role/RRSchedule5 ~ ~ http://franklintempleton.com/20230831/role/RRSchedule6 ~ ~ http://franklintempleton.com/20230831/role/RRSchedule7 ~ ~ http://franklintempleton.com/20230831/role/RRBarChart8 ~ ~ http://franklintempleton.com/20230831/role/RRSchedule9 ~ ~ http://franklintempleton.com/20230831/role/RRSchedule10 ~ There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 Million or more (see "Investment of $1 Million or More" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge on shares sold within 18 months of purchase. Since inception May 1, 2013.