BANDHAN Small Cap Fund
All plans and options of BANDHAN Small Cap Fund
| Scheme (as filed with AMFI) | Plan | Option | NAV | AMFI code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — Growth | Direct | Growth | ₹55.9740 9 Nov 2026 | 147946 |
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW | Direct | IDCW | ₹38.9560 9 Nov 2026 | 147943 |
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — Growth | Regular | Growth | ₹50.5060 9 Nov 2026 | 147944 |
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW | Regular | IDCW | ₹35.1580 9 Nov 2026 | 147945 |
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
Everything the NAV says
Computed from 1,663 published NAVs between 26 Feb 2020 and 9 Nov 2026 — 6.7 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 | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y | 3Y | 5Y | 7Y | 10Y | Since launch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund Regular | 0.16 | -2.10 | 4.13 | -0.51 | 12.71 | 9.83 | — | — | 20.63 |
| NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI benchmark | -4.17 | -1.91 | 19.92 | 4.86 | 13.51 | 14.17 | 22.07 | 14.50 | 17.30 |
| Small Cap category median · 28 funds | — | — | — | 6.35 | 13.50 | 12.76 | — | 15.60 | — |
Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is the index's own Total Return Index, as published by NSE, measured to 9 Nov 2026. The category row is the median Regular plan in Small Cap — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 9 Nov 2026.
Risk measures
| Fund name | Volatility | Sharpe | Sortino | Beta | Alpha | Max fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund Regular | 22.25 | 0.28 | 0.41 | 0.95 | -1.35 | -27.66 |
| NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI benchmark | 21.90 | 0.32 | 0.52 | — | — | -59.78 |
Risk-free rate 6.5%. The benchmark row is the index's NSE Total Return Index. Beta and alpha need the index as a reference, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.
Risk
| Volatility | Downside volatility | Sharpe | Sortino |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22.2% | 15.0% | 0.28 | 0.41 |
Risk-free rate 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond.
The worst it has been
| Deepest fall | Time to recover | Today, from its peak |
|---|---|---|
| -27.7% | — | -9.9% |
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 year | Median year | Worst year | Losing years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 103.5% | 12.5% | -15.6% | 29% |
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
If you had run a SIP
₹10,000 every month for five years — ₹600,000 invested in all — would be worth ₹804,112 today, an XIRR of 11.66% 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, as on 30 Sep 2026. 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
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
Concentration
| Number of stocks | 264 |
|---|---|
| Top 5 stocks | 9.89% |
| Top 10 stocks | 17.35% |
| Top 20 stocks | 28.84% |
| Largest single holding | 2.30% |
| Largest sector | Finance · 10.60% |
| Number of sectors | 49 |
| Effective stocks | 145.6 |
| Cash & equivalents | 0.00% |
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
Largest holdings
Top 10 are 29.4% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.
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 Aug 2026 and 30 Sep 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.
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 | |||||
| Knowledge Realty Trust | 16,260,000 | entered | — | 184 | 184 |
| Elevate Campuses Limited | 2,563,079 | entered | — | 82.8 | 82.8 |
| LNJ Bhilwara group ** | 1,625,711 | entered | — | 76.1 | 76.1 |
| Clean Max group | 540,000 | entered | — | 71.7 | 71.7 |
| Viyash Scientific Limited | 2,177,500 | entered | — | 51.4 | 51.4 |
| Asset Reconstruction Company India Limited | 2,880,943 | entered | — | 41.7 | 41.7 |
| Varmora Granito Limited | 1,747,813 | entered | — | 24.4 | 24.4 |
| JM Financial Limited | 1,861,278 | entered | — | 24.0 | 24.0 |
| Added tobought more shares than last month 8 | |||||
| HDFC Bank Limited | 2,460,000 | +49.7% | 0.0% | 174 | 525 |
| Power Finance Corporation Limited | 5,179,068 | +101.9% | -3.2% | 169 | 334 |
| Cholamandalam Financial Holdings Limited | 1,181,689 | +31.6% | -6.7% | 164 | 682 |
| EPL Limited | 4,361,812 | +39.4% | -9.6% | 103 | 366 |
| Godawari Power And Ispat limited | 3,782,135 | +40.4% | -8.8% | 84.1 | 292 |
| Inox Green Energy Services Limited | 4,500,000 | +90.0% | -3.5% | 72.5 | 153 |
| AWL Agri Business Limited | 3,774,845 | +22.2% | -7.7% | 67.1 | 369 |
| Manappuram Finance Limited | 1,977,002 | +50.0% | -7.1% | 62.4 | 187 |
| Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8 | |||||
| Lalithaa Jewellery Mart Ltd | 3,937,842 | -60.0% | +48.1% | 150 | 100 |
| Apar Industries Limited | 19,500 | -16.2% | -1.8% | 33.9 | 176 |
| Yatharth Hospital And Trauma Care Services Limited | 236,678 | -5.9% | +3.1% | 24.4 | 389 |
| Windlas Biotech Limited | 172,282 | -64.0% | +9.8% | 18.8 | 10.6 |
| Steel Authority of India Limited | 931,192 | -17.2% | -6.9% | 16.9 | 81.7 |
| One 97 Communications Limited | 90,000 | -4.5% | -2.3% | 15.1 | 321 |
| Amir Chand Jagdish Kumar (Exports) Ltd | 680,200 | -22.1% | +18.5% | 14.1 | 49.6 |
| Shilpa Medicare Limited | 129,153 | -5.9% | +10.3% | 13.5 | 215 |
| Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8 | |||||
| Syrma SGS Technology Limited | 300,000 | exited | — | 43.1 | — |
| Steel Strips Wheels Limited | 645,000 | exited | — | 19.7 | — |
| Artemis Medicare Services Limited | 474,909 | exited | — | 15.1 | — |
| Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited | 26,917 | exited | — | 13.6 | — |
| Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd | 121,424 | exited | — | 12.1 | — |
| Onemi Technology Solutions Limited | 342,843 | exited | — | 10.5 | — |
| JK Paper Limited | 210,000 | exited | — | 8.3 | — |
| STL Networks limited | 1,611,144 | exited | — | 4.5 | — |
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.
One caveat on the share count: a corporate action — a stock split, a bonus issue, a merger, or an ISIN change — also moves the number of shares without the manager trading, and a monthly disclosure does not flag it. A sudden clean multiple (a doubling, a halving) is more likely a split than a decision. Treat a single large, round jump as something to check against the stock's own corporate-action history rather than as the manager buying or selling.
How it compares in its category
Against the Small Cap 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.
| Scheme | Return | Alpha | Beta | Volatility | Sharpe | Max fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund · this scheme | 12.7% | -1.3% | 0.95 | 22.2% | 0.28 | -27.7% |
| BANDHAN Small Cap Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund | 20.8% | 5.6% | 0.92 | 20.5% | 0.70 | -25.2% |
| ITI Small Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund | 19.8% | 5.8% | 0.89 | 19.7% | 0.68 | -40.0% |
| Invesco India Small Cap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund | 19.6% | 4.7% | 0.87 | 19.5% | 0.67 | -37.7% |
| Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund | 17.1% | 2.4% | 0.89 | 19.8% | 0.54 | -26.4% |
| BANK OF INDIA SMALL CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund | 17.1% | 2.9% | 0.96 | 22.1% | 0.48 | -32.5% |
| LIC MF Small Cap Fund LIC Mutual Fund | 15.8% | 0.9% | 0.96 | 22.1% | 0.42 | -27.2% |
| Quant Small Cap Fund quant Mutual Fund | 15.5% | 1.5% | 0.89 | 19.9% | 0.45 | -69.7% |
| DSP Small Cap Fund DSP Mutual Fund | 14.9% | 1.1% | 0.93 | 21.2% | 0.40 | -74.7% |
Alpha and beta are against NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI. 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.
Compare BANDHAN Small Cap Fund side by side
Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 36 Small Cap funds.
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What a Small Cap scheme is
At least 65% in companies ranked 251st and below.
The highest return and the highest pain in Indian equity. These companies are thinly traded, so a fund that grows too large struggles to buy and sell without moving the price — which is why good small-cap funds close to new money.
Who it suits. Only money that will not be needed for a decade, and only alongside steadier funds.
How long money should stay. 10 years or more.
Questions people ask
What is the NAV of BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?
₹35.1580 as on 9 Nov 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 BANDHAN Small Cap 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. As an illustration, not a forecast: ₹1,00,000 invested for ten years at 12% a year ends at about ₹3.11 lakh, but at 10.5% — a 1.5 percentage-point gap and nothing else changed — it ends at about ₹2.71 lakh, roughly ₹40,000 less. The longer you hold, the wider the gap. Direct is the same fund without the commission.
What does the IDCW 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 65% in companies ranked 251st and below. The highest return and the highest pain in Indian equity. These companies are thinly traded, so a fund that grows too large struggles to buy and sell without moving the price — which is why good small-cap funds close to new money.
How long should money stay in it?
Typically 10 years or more. Only money that will not be needed for a decade, and only alongside steadier funds.
