|
|
Shares
|
Value ($)
|
|
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Common Stocks 99.8%
|
|
||
Communication Services 13.6%
|
|
||
Entertainment 0.7%
|
|
||
Warner Bros Discovery, Inc.*
|
|
78,078
|
847,927
|
Interactive Media & Services 8.6%
|
|
||
Alphabet, Inc. "A"*
|
|
49,354
|
6,458,465
|
Meta Platforms, Inc. "A"*
|
|
13,501
|
4,053,135
|
|
|
|
10,511,600
|
Media 3.5%
|
|
||
Comcast Corp. "A"
|
|
6,944
|
307,897
|
Fox Corp. "A"
|
|
128,626
|
4,013,131
|
|
|
|
4,321,028
|
Wireless Telecommunication Services 0.8%
|
|
||
T-Mobile U.S., Inc.*
|
|
6,947
|
972,927
|
Consumer Discretionary 9.0%
|
|
||
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 1.7%
|
|
||
Boyd Gaming Corp.
|
|
35,087
|
2,134,342
|
Household Durables 4.5%
|
|
||
D.R. Horton, Inc.
|
|
42,749
|
4,594,235
|
Garmin Ltd.
|
|
8,144
|
856,749
|
|
|
|
5,450,984
|
Specialty Retail 2.4%
|
|
||
AutoNation, Inc.*
|
|
9,951
|
1,506,581
|
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
|
|
4,401
|
914,704
|
Signet Jewelers Ltd.
|
|
7,129
|
511,934
|
|
|
|
2,933,219
|
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 0.4%
|
|
||
Tapestry, Inc.
|
|
18,723
|
538,286
|
Consumer Staples 2.9%
|
|
||
Beverages 0.3%
|
|
||
Molson Coors Beverage Co. "B"
|
|
5,288
|
336,264
|
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail 0.8%
|
|
||
Kroger Co.
|
|
21,095
|
944,001
|
Food Products 0.7%
|
|
||
Conagra Brands, Inc.
|
|
31,785
|
871,545
|
Tobacco 1.1%
|
|
||
Altria Group, Inc.
|
|
33,456
|
1,406,825
|
Energy 6.7%
|
|
||
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels
|
|
||
Coterra Energy, Inc.
|
|
38,333
|
1,036,908
|
Exxon Mobil Corp.
|
|
15,918
|
1,871,639
|
Marathon Petroleum Corp.
|
|
12,192
|
1,845,137
|
Phillips 66
|
|
3,949
|
474,472
|
Pioneer Natural Resources Co.
|
|
8,667
|
1,989,510
|
Valero Energy Corp.
|
|
6,664
|
944,355
|
|
|
|
8,162,021
|
Financials 11.0%
|
|
||
Banks 3.5%
|
|
||
Bank of America Corp.
|
|
40,586
|
1,111,245
|
Huntington Bancshares, Inc.
|
|
90,820
|
944,528
|
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
|
|
15,501
|
2,247,955
|
|
|
|
4,303,728
|
Capital Markets 1.1%
|
|
||
State Street Corp.
|
|
19,676
|
1,317,505
|
Consumer Finance 6.4%
|
|
||
Capital One Financial Corp.
|
|
19,649
|
1,906,935
|
Discover Financial Services
|
|
43,530
|
3,771,004
|
Synchrony Financial
|
|
72,115
|
2,204,556
|
|
|
|
7,882,495
|
Health Care 23.0%
|
|
||
Biotechnology 7.5%
|
|
||
AbbVie, Inc.
|
|
6,638
|
989,460
|
Amgen, Inc.
|
|
1,468
|
394,540
|
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
|
|
43,280
|
3,243,403
|
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.*
|
|
3,440
|
2,830,983
|
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.*
|
|
4,914
|
1,708,794
|
|
|
|
9,167,180
|
Health Care Equipment & Supplies 2.9%
|
|
||
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.*
|
|
5,197
|
360,048
|
Hologic, Inc.*
|
|
20,010
|
1,388,694
|
Medtronic PLC
|
|
22,676
|
1,776,892
|
|
|
|
3,525,634
|
Health Care Providers & Services 0.9%
|
|
||
HCA Healthcare, Inc.
|
|
1,166
|
286,812
|
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings
|
|
4,354
|
875,372
|
|
|
|
1,162,184
|
Pharmaceuticals 11.7%
|
|
||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
|
|
101,126
|
5,869,353
|
Johnson & Johnson
|
|
16,836
|
2,622,207
|
Merck & Co., Inc.
|
|
44,528
|
4,584,157
|
Viatris, Inc.
|
|
135,445
|
1,335,488
|
|
|
|
14,411,205
|
Industrials 5.9%
|
|
||
Air Freight & Logistics 0.5%
|
|
||
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.
|
|
5,099
|
584,498
|
Electrical Equipment 0.3%
|
|
||
Acuity Brands, Inc.
|
|
2,006
|
341,642
|
Machinery 2.7%
|
|
||
Cummins, Inc.
|
|
6,009
|
1,372,816
|
PACCAR, Inc.
|
|
22,418
|
1,905,978
|
|
|
|
3,278,794
|
Professional Services 2.1%
|
|
||
ManpowerGroup, Inc.
|
|
16,062
|
1,177,666
|
Robert Half, Inc.
|
|
12,913
|
946,265
|
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.
|
|
9,965
|
523,561
|
|
|
|
2,647,492
|
Trading Companies & Distributors 0.3%
|
|
||
Ferguson PLC
|
|
2,564
|
421,701
|
Information Technology 24.4%
|
|
||
Communications Equipment 2.2%
|
|
||
Cisco Systems, Inc.
|
|
50,556
|
2,717,891
|
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components 0.7%
|
|
||
Keysight Technologies, Inc.*
|
|
2,821
|
373,247
|
Sanmina Corp.*
|
|
9,637
|
523,096
|
|
|
|
896,343
|
IT Services 2.4%
|
|
||
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. "A"
|
|
42,941
|
2,908,823
|
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 9.0%
|
|
||
Applied Materials, Inc.
|
|
8,995
|
1,245,358
|
Broadcom, Inc.
|
|
646
|
536,555
|
KLA Corp.
|
|
3,365
|
1,543,391
|
Lam Research Corp.
|
|
1,335
|
836,738
|
Microchip Technology, Inc.
|
|
19,531
|
1,524,394
|
NXP Semiconductors NV
|
|
4,026
|
804,878
|
QUALCOMM, Inc.
|
|
32,433
|
3,602,009
|
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
|
|
9,167
|
903,774
|
|
|
|
10,997,097
|
Software 3.7%
|
|
||
Microsoft Corp.
|
|
14,500
|
4,578,375
|
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals 6.4%
|
|
||
Apple, Inc.
|
|
21,431
|
3,669,202
|
Dell Technologies, Inc. "C"
|
|
13,899
|
957,641
|
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
|
|
183,224
|
3,182,601
|
|
|
|
7,809,444
|
Materials 3.3%
|
|
||
Chemicals 1.0%
|
|
||
LyondellBasell Industries NV "A"
|
|
3,254
|
308,154
|
Olin Corp.
|
|
19,708
|
985,006
|
|
|
|
1,293,160
|
Metals & Mining 2.3%
|
|
||
Nucor Corp.
|
|
17,896
|
2,798,039
|
Total Common Stocks (Cost $114,612,461)
|
122,474,199
|
||
|
Cash Equivalents 0.3%
|
|||
DWS Central Cash Management Government Fund, 5.36% (a) (Cost $414,697)
|
|
414,697
|
414,697
|
|
|||
|
|
% of
Net Assets
|
Value ($)
|
Total Investment Portfolio (Cost $115,027,158)
|
|
100.1
|
122,888,896
|
Other Assets and Liabilities, Net
|
|
(0.1
)
|
(121,664
)
|
Net Assets
|
|
100.0
|
122,767,232
|
Value ($) at
12/31/2022
|
Purchases
Cost ($)
|
Sales
Proceeds ($)
|
Net Realized
Gain/
(Loss) ($)
|
Net Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation) ($)
|
Income ($)
|
Capital Gain
Distributions ($)
|
Number
of Shares
at
9/30/2023
|
Value ($) at
9/30/2023
|
Securities Lending Collateral 0.0%
|
||||||||
DWS Government & Agency Securities Portfolio "DWS Government Cash Institutional Shares", 5.25% (a) (b)
|
||||||||
—
|
0 (c)
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
22
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
Cash Equivalents 0.3%
|
||||||||
DWS Central Cash Management Government Fund, 5.36% (a)
|
||||||||
1,132,870
|
5,079,957
|
5,798,130
|
—
|
—
|
36,124
|
—
|
414,697
|
414,697
|
1,132,870
|
5,079,957
|
5,798,130
|
—
|
—
|
36,146
|
—
|
414,697
|
414,697
|
*
|
Non-income producing security.
|
(a)
|
Affiliated fund managed by DWS Investment Management Americas, Inc. The rate shown is the annualized seven-day yield at
period end.
|
(b)
|
Represents cash collateral held in connection with securities lending. Income earned by the Fund is net of borrower rebates.
|
(c)
|
Represents the net increase (purchase cost) or decrease (sales proceeds) in the amount invested in cash collateral for the
period
ended September 30, 2023.
|
Assets
|
Level 1
|
Level 2
|
Level 3
|
Total
|
Common Stocks (a)
|
$122,474,199
|
$—
|
$—
|
$122,474,199
|
Short-Term Investments
|
414,697
|
—
|
—
|
414,697
|
Total
|
$122,888,896
|
$—
|
$—
|
$122,888,896
|
(a)
|
See Investment Portfolio for additional detailed categorizations.
|