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BANDHAN Small Cap Fund

Option Growth IDCW
Category Small Cap →
All plans and options of BANDHAN Small Cap Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — GrowthDirectGrowth ₹55.9740 9 Nov 2026 147946
BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — IDCWDirectIDCW ₹38.9560 9 Nov 2026 147943
BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — GrowthRegularGrowth ₹50.5060 9 Nov 2026 147944
BANDHAN Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCWRegularIDCW ₹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

Launched26 Feb 2020 6.7 years of history
CategorySmall CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 147945
BenchmarkNIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on9 Nov 2026source AMFI

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 1M3M6M1Y3Y5Y7Y10YSince launch
BANDHAN Small Cap Fund Regular 0.16-2.104.13 -0.5112.719.83 ——20.63
NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI benchmark -4.17-1.9119.92 4.8613.5114.17 22.0714.5017.30
Small Cap category median · 28 funds ——— 6.3513.5012.76 —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

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
22.2%15.0%0.280.41

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-27.7%—-9.9%
0%-10%-20%-29%202220242026
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
103.5%12.5%-15.6%29%
Worst-15.6%Median12.5%Best103.5%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

45.1%2021-10.6%202245.3%202333.1%2024-8.0%20252.3%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 ₹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

86.37%Equity
12.97%Cash & Equivalents
0.64%REITs / InvITs
0.02%Debt

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

6.71%Large
10.31%Mid
68.25%Small
Large Cap 6.7%6.7%Mid Cap 10.3%10.3%Small Cap 68.3%68.3%Unclassified 1.8%Large Cap 6.7%Mid Cap 10.3%Small Cap 68.3%Unclassified 1.8%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small. The rest is debt, cash, foreign holdings or fund units, which AMFI does not rank.

Concentration

Number of stocks264
Top 5 stocks9.89%
Top 10 stocks17.35%
Top 20 stocks28.84%
Largest single holding2.30%
Largest sectorFinance · 10.60%
Number of sectors49
Effective stocks145.6
Cash & equivalents0.00%

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

Cash & Equivalents — 13.0%Finance — 10.6%Banks — 8.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 6.9%Realty — 6.9%Consumer Durables — 5.6%Industrial Products — 3.8%Agricultural Food & other Products — 3.8%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 3.4%Other — 37.2%Cash & Equivalents13.0%Finance10.6%Banks8.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…6.9%Realty6.9%Consumer Durables5.6%Industrial Products3.8%Agricultural Food & other…3.8%Chemicals & Petrochemicals3.4%Other37.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

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.

Triparty Repo TRP_011026 13.42%
Sobha Limited 2.30%
REC Limited 2.13%
Cholamandalam Financial Holdings Limited 1.90%
LT Foods Limited 1.81%
State Bank of India 1.75%
Cyient Limited 1.62%
The South Indian Bank Limited 1.55%
HDFC Bank Limited 1.46%
Arvind Limited 1.43%
Jubilant Pharmova Limited 1.40%
The Karnataka Bank Limited 1.38%

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.

Bought₹2,086 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹401 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions13 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of9 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -1.07% 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
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.

Return window
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.

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.

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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.