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Axis ELSS- Tax Saver Fund

Direct–Growth is the plan and option we treat as this fund's main page, so search engines are pointed there. Everything below is this filing's own data.

Fund basics

Launched31 Dec 2009 16.7 years of history
CategoryELSS (Tax Saving)SEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW Option code 112322
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 4,125 published NAVs between 31 Dec 2009 and 16 Sep 2026 — 16.7 years of history. Nothing here is an estimate; it is arithmetic on what the fund actually printed.

How it has moved

Return over time (%)

Fund name 1M3M6M1Y3Y5Y7Y10YSince launch
Axis ELSS- Tax Saver Fund Regular -3.490.645.43 -11.020.11-4.62 1.790.735.19
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
ELSS (Tax Saving) category median · 68 funds ——— 0.9111.4010.22 —12.32—

Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is the index fund named below, priced daily by AMFI like every other scheme here. The category row is the median Regular plan in ELSS (Tax Saving) — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 25 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Axis ELSS- Tax Saver Fund Regular 17.11 -0.37 -0.47 0.97 -13.20 -41.83
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.16 0.35 0.47 —— -37.31

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
17.1%13.6%-0.37-0.47

Risk-free rate 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-41.8%9 months-24.3%
0%-14%-29%-43%201020122014201620182020202220242026
How far below its own record high the fund sat, on every single day it has existed. Flat along the top means it was making new highs; every dip is a stretch where somebody who bought at the wrong moment was down.

A drawdown is the fall from a previous high to the low that followed it. It is the number that decides whether somebody stays invested — a fund can have an excellent ten-year return and still have been unbearable to hold in year four.

Every one-year period it has lived through

Best yearMedian yearWorst yearLosing years
76.2%3.7%-24.9%41%
Worst-24.9%Median3.7%Best76.2%now
The full spread of one-year outcomes, with the fund's actual last twelve months marked. It answers the question a single number cannot: is right now an ordinary year for this fund, or an unusual one?

Rolling returns ask a fairer question than a single five-year figure: not "what did it do from this one start date", but "what happened across every start date". A fund whose worst year is −45% is a different proposition from one whose worst is −8%, even if the averages match.

Calendar years

13.6%2021-19.7%20229.7%20237.9%2024-4.1%2025-10.4%2026MF Analyser
Each year on its own, January to December. Losing years hang below the line — averages hide them, and the years somebody actually had to sit through are the ones that decide whether they stayed.

If you had run a SIP

₹10,000 every month for five years — ₹600,000 invested in all — would be worth ₹574,128 today, an XIRR of -1.73% a year.

XIRR, not CAGR. A SIP's money arrives over sixty months, so most of it has been invested for far less than five years — which is why this figure normally sits below the five-year CAGR above in a rising market, and above it in a falling one. It is the return the investor got, not the return the fund got.

What it actually holds

The real portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI. Nothing here is estimated — when a fund has no filing in our store the section simply does not appear. A fund is its holdings; the returns above are only what those holdings did.

Asset allocation

98.16%Equity
1.79%Cash & Equivalents

A fund's risk starts here — how much of it is even in the market — before any question of which stocks or which sectors. Cash is not idleness; it is the manager's choice not to be invested, and it shows up as a drag in a rising market and a cushion in a falling one.

Portfolio aggregates

139.34%Large
43.29%Mid
12.13%Small
Large Cap 139.3%139.3%Mid Cap 43.3%43.3%Small Cap 12.1%12.1%Unclassified 1.2%Large Cap 139.3%Mid Cap 43.3%Small Cap 12.1%Unclassified 1.2%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small.

Concentration

Number of stocks68
Top 5 stocks23.49%
Top 10 stocks36.92%
Top 20 stocks57.00%
Largest single holding7.02%
Largest sectorBanks · 21.62%
Number of sectors32
Effective stocks41.9
Cash & equivalents1.79%

Counting positions overstates diversification. The effective-stocks figure is the honest count: a portfolio can hold seventy names and still have most of its money in twenty.

Sector allocation

Banks — 21.6%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 7.6%Finance — 6.5%Automobiles — 6.2%Retailing — 5.1%IT - Software — 5.0%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 4.9%Telecom - Services — 4.3%Electrical Equipment — 4.1%Other — 34.7%Banks21.6%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…7.6%Finance6.5%Automobiles6.2%Retailing5.1%IT - Software5.0%Chemicals & Petrochemicals4.9%Telecom - Services4.3%Electrical Equipment4.1%Other34.7%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 36.9% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Bank Limited 7.02%
HDFC Bank Limited 5.55%
Bharti Airtel Limited 4.26%
Bajaj Finance Limited 3.42%
Eternal Limited 3.24%
Larsen & Toubro Limited 2.90%
Divi's Laboratories Limited 2.71%
Axis Bank Limited 2.63%
Pidilite Industries Limited 2.62%
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 2.57%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd 2.39%
State Bank of India 2.37%

Disclosed holdings from the AMC's AMFI filing, largest first. A portfolio is filed monthly and shifts between filings — this is the most recent one loaded, not a live book.

What the manager did last month

Between the filing of 31 May 2026 and 31 Jul 2026. A position grows for two reasons — the manager bought more, or the price went up — and only the first is a decision. The share count is what separates them, because it moves only when somebody trades.

Bought₹1,801 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,635 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions10 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of15 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +8.41% the market's doing, not the manager's

Swipe the table sideways for share counts, price change and values.

Stock Shares traded Change in shares Change in price Value of the trade₹ crore Position now₹ crore
New positiondid not hold this a month ago 8
HCL Technologies Limited 1,475,666 entered — 199 199
Craftsman Automation Limited 193,698 entered — 191 191
JSW Infrastructure Ltd 5,625,645 entered — 176 176
Marico Limited 1,972,021 entered — 172 172
Doms Industries Limited 661,269 entered — 149 149
Krishna Institute Of Medical Sciences Limited 1,838,069 entered — 148 148
Indo-MIM Limited 1,874,762 entered — 146 146
Tata Consumer Products Limited 1,250,664 entered — 135 135
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited 443,164 +158.4% +16.1% 227 370
HDFC Bank Limited 2,495,374 +10.8% +0.5% 187 1,912
The Phoenix Mills Limited 808,147 +95.4% +6.9% 153 313
PB Fintech Limited 939,913 +37.7% -5.9% 151 550
Tata Consultancy Services Limited 553,147 +29.7% +4.7% 131 572
Page Industries Limited 22,553 +66.8% +5.7% 91.1 227
Bharti Airtel Limited 448,006 +6.2% +7.8% 88.4 1,513
Tata Motors Ltd 1,864,938 +29.1% +15.1% 81.5 362
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Reliance Industries Limited 3,201,903 -40.4% -1.0% 419 617
Infosys Limited 2,291,382 -27.3% -2.7% 259 688
State Bank of India 1,791,050 -19.1% +6.5% 184 782
ICICI Bank Limited 1,147,703 -6.4% +14.3% 165 2,409
CG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited 1,433,040 -19.3% -5.9% 124 518
InterGlobe Aviation Limited 197,372 -18.9% +17.4% 102 438
Divi's Laboratories Limited 66,440 -6.6% +20.8% 53.5 754
Bajaj Finance Limited 423,767 -3.5% +25.7% 48.4 1,339
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Hindalco Industries Limited 2,934,984 exited — 331 —
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 6,065,893 exited — 253 —
JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited 1,087,630 exited — 236 —
HDFC Asset Management Company Limited 775,081 exited — 207 —
Varun Beverages Limited 3,745,140 exited — 198 —
Trent Limited 416,977 exited — 176 —
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited 944,277 exited — 169 —
Avenue Supermarts Limited 397,010 exited — 161 —

Only stocks and fund units are listed. Treasury bills, repo and money-market lines roll over every month by design — they are larger in rupees than most equity trades and are not decisions, so they are summarised as cash above rather than listed as activity. Share counts and values are the fund house's own filing. What a position cost when it was first bought is in no monthly disclosure, so a value here is what the shares were worth at the later filing, not what was paid.

How it compares in its category

Against the ELSS (Tax Saving) Regular schemes with the highest three-year return. Same category, same plan — the only comparison that means anything. The list re-sorts itself as returns move; it is an ordering by one number, not a view on which fund anyone should hold.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Axis ELSS- Tax Saver Fund Axis Mutual Fund · this scheme 0.1% -13.2% 0.97 17.1% -0.37 -41.8%
SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series V SBI Mutual Fund 18.7% 3.7% 0.95 16.2% 0.75 -35.8%
Motilal Oswal ELSS Tax Saver Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund 19.3% 3.6% 1.03 17.4% 0.73 -37.8%
ITI ELSS Tax Saver Fund ITI Mutual Fund 13.7% -0.7% 1.04 17.9% 0.40 -38.7%
HSBC ELSS Tax saver Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 14.0% 4.8% 0.99 15.2% 0.50 -19.3%
JM ELSS - Tax Saver Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund 13.9% 1.8% 1.01 20.3% 0.37 -69.0%
BANK OF INDIA MID CAP TAX FUND SERIES 1 Bank of India Mutual Fund 13.4% 5.6% 0.96 17.0% 0.41 -36.9%
WhiteOak Capital ELSS Tax Saver Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 13.3% 4.2% 0.94 13.0% 0.53 -16.7%
Quant ELSS Tax Saver Fund quant Mutual Fund 12.4% 9.2% 1.03 19.4% 0.30 -67.9%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 500. Max fall is the deepest peak-to-trough drop in each fund's own history, so a longer-running fund has had more chances to record a bad one. Click a column to sort. This is a sort, not a ranking, and nothing here is a recommendation.

What a ELSS (Tax Saving) scheme is

At least 80% in equity, with every investment locked for three years.

The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

Who it suits. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.

How long money should stay. The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Axis ELSS- Tax Saver Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW Option?

₹23.2472 as on 25 Sep 2026, from AMFI's daily NAV file. NAV is declared once each business day after markets close, so the figure here is the most recent one published.

What is the difference between the Direct and Regular plan of Axis ELSS- Tax Saver Fund?

They hold the identical portfolio, run by the same manager. A Regular plan pays a distributor commission out of the fund, inside its expense ratio — commonly 0.5% to 1.2% a year more than Direct. That difference is charged on the whole balance, every year, so it compounds: on ₹1,00,000 held ten years a gap of 1.5 percentage points is roughly ₹1.4 lakh of ending value. Direct is the same fund without the commission.

What does the IDCW Option option mean?

An IDCW option pays part of the fund's gains out to you, and the NAV falls by exactly what it pays. It is not extra return — it is your own money returned, taxed at your slab rate. That also means a return computed from NAV alone understates an IDCW scheme, which is why no CAGR is shown here for it.

What kind of scheme is this?

At least 80% in equity, with every investment locked for three years. The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.