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Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund

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All plans and options of Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — Growth OptionDirectGrowth Option ₹14.7222 13 Nov 2026 152128
Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW OptionDirectIDCW ₹14.3662 13 Nov 2026 152129
Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — Growth OptionRegularGrowth Option ₹14.1170 13 Nov 2026 152130
Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW OptionRegularIDCW ₹13.7563 13 Nov 2026 152131

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

Launched1 Nov 2023 3.0 years of history
CategorySmall CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW Option code 152131
BenchmarkNIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on13 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 745 published NAVs between 1 Nov 2023 and 13 Nov 2026 — 3.0 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
Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund Regular 1.38-0.175.46 8.3110.46— ——11.03
NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI benchmark -4.17-1.9119.92 4.8613.5114.17 22.0714.5017.30
Small Cap category median · 28 funds ——— 7.7613.8813.14 —15.96—

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 13 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 13 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund Regular 18.20 0.22 0.32 0.81 -2.97 -25.37
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
18.2%12.4%0.220.32

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-25.4%—-5.1%
0%-9%-19%-28%20242026
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
37.3%1.7%-13.6%44%
Worst-13.6%Median1.7%Best37.3%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

24.4%2024-9.0%20259.7%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.

What it actually holds

The real portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI, as on 31 Oct 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

93.63%Equity
6.37%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

5.59%Large
12.99%Mid
71.97%Small
Large Cap 5.6%5.6%Mid Cap 13.0%13.0%Small Cap 72.0%72.0%Unclassified 3.1%Large Cap 5.6%Mid Cap 13.0%Small Cap 72.0%Unclassified 3.1%
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 stocks64
Top 5 stocks18.20%
Top 10 stocks31.50%
Top 20 stocks52.29%
Largest single holding4.39%
Largest sectorPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology · 13.18%
Number of sectors28
Effective stocks52.1
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

Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 13.2%Banks — 8.7%Finance — 8.6%Auto Components — 8.2%Transport Services — 5.7% — 5.6%Industrial Products — 5.1%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 4.6%Capital Markets — 4.5%Other — 35.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…13.2%Banks8.7%Finance8.6%Auto Components8.2%Transport Services5.7% 5.6%Industrial Products5.1%Chemicals & Petrochemicals4.6%Capital Markets4.5%Other35.8%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 34.5% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Clearing Corporation of India Ltd 5.59%
Karur Vysya Bank Limited 4.39%
Laurus Labs Limited 4.07%
Navin Fluorine International Limited 3.44%
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited 3.42%
PhysicsWallah Limited 2.88%
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 2.87%
Acutaas Chemicals Limited 2.64%
Emcure Pharmaceuticals Limited 2.63%
Sansera Engineering Limited 2.58%
Dr. Lal Path Labs Limited 2.58%
BEML Limited 2.38%

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 30 Sep 2026 and 31 Oct 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₹22.7 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹51.0 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions6 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of3 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -3.76% 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 6
Grindwell Norton Limited 56,208 entered — 10.6 10.6
Action Construction Equipment Limited 105,703 entered — 10.5 10.5
Ather Energy Limited 50,000 entered — 8.8 8.8
Eternal Limited 200,000 entered — 6.9 6.9
Sudarshan Chemical Industries Limited 52,218 entered — 5.2 5.2
Thyrocare Technologies Limited 48,444 entered — 2.2 2.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Cartrade Tech Limited 20,000 +57.1% -24.5% 4.4 12.0
Welspun Living Limited 170,000 +113.3% -3.6% 3.7 7.0
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 86,363 +10.7% -6.7% 3.4 34.8
Karur Vysya Bank Limited 92,737 +6.6% +9.6% 3.3 53.2
Leela Palaces Hotels & Resorts Limited 46,193 +16.5% +10.5% 2.9 20.7
Acutaas Chemicals Limited 5,000 +6.7% +22.1% 2.0 32.0
Shiprocket Limited 158,025 +10.1% +4.9% 2.0 21.7
Sundram Fasteners Limited 10,000 +7.4% -9.2% 1.0 15.0
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 7
Radico Khaitan Limited 50,000 -68.5% -6.4% 20.4 9.4
City Union Bank Limited 800,000 -60.0% -5.2% 17.1 11.4
Aster DM Quality Care Limited 90,000 -32.1% -2.3% 6.1 12.9
Waterways Leisure Tourism Limited 310,385 -61.0% -17.0% 2.6 1.7
Atul Limited 4,500 -20.0% -15.0% 2.3 9.1
The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited 10,000 -10.5% +2.2% 1.6 13.6
Sansera Engineering Limited 2,000 -2.6% -9.4% 0.8 31.2
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 3
National Aluminium Company Limited 800,000 exited — 27.3 —
Hitachi Energy India Limited 2,500 exited — 7.7 —
DCM Shriram Limited 28,188 exited — 2.6 —

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
Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund · this scheme 10.5% -3.0% 0.81 18.2% 0.22 -25.4%
Axis Small Cap Fund Axis Mutual Fund 3.7% -9.7% 0.90 21.2% -0.13 -41.3%
HDFC Small Cap Fund HDFC Mutual Fund -1.8% -14.1% 0.83 20.9% -0.40 -59.3%
ITI Small Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 17.5% 3.7% 0.90 20.1% 0.55 -40.0%
JM Small Cap Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund — 1.6% 1.03 23.4% -0.03 -25.9%
Nippon India Small Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 5.4% -8.3% 0.99 22.5% -0.05 -53.9%
Quant Small Cap Fund quant Mutual Fund 15.0% 1.5% 0.89 19.9% 0.42 -67.0%
Union Small Cap Fund Union Mutual Fund 9.9% -3.7% 0.83 20.4% 0.16 -49.3%

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 Baroda BNP Paribas 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 Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW Option?

₹13.7563 as on 13 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 Baroda BNP Paribas 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 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.