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DSP Focused Fund

Option Growth IDCW
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All plans and options of DSP Focused Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
DSP Focused Fund — Direct Plan — GrowthDirectGrowth ₹65.0580 13 Nov 2026 119096
DSP Focused Fund — Direct Plan — IDCWDirectIDCW ₹42.0670 13 Nov 2026 119095
DSP Focused Fund — Regular Plan — GrowthRegularGrowth ₹57.4540 13 Nov 2026 112901
DSP Focused Fund — Regular Plan — IDCWRegularIDCW ₹21.2050 13 Nov 2026 113032

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

Launched15 Jun 2010 16.4 years of history
CategoryFocusedSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 113032
BenchmarkNIFTY 500 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on13 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 4,045 published NAVs between 15 Jun 2010 and 13 Nov 2026 — 16.4 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
DSP Focused Fund Regular 8.772.5110.68 -4.844.240.54 5.654.204.58
NIFTY 500 TRI benchmark -6.32-5.775.05 -3.809.148.89 14.2512.6614.26
Focused category median · 32 funds ——— 3.4813.2010.47 —13.37—

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 Focused — 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
DSP Focused Fund Regular 18.49 -0.12 -0.16 1.05 -6.73 -49.76
NIFTY 500 TRI benchmark 15.66 0.17 0.25 —— -38.11

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
18.5%14.3%-0.12-0.16

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-49.8%15 months-14.6%
0%-18%-37%-55%20122014201620182020202220242026
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
84.4%1.7%-37.2%46%
Worst-37.2%Median1.7%Best84.4%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

22.3%2021-14.4%202223.2%20239.0%2024-1.3%2025-5.9%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 ₹662,733 today, an XIRR of 3.93% 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 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

94.84%Equity
5.16%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

61.09%Large
20.06%Mid
13.69%Small
Large Cap 61.1%61.1%Mid Cap 20.1%20.1%Small Cap 13.7%13.7%Large Cap 61.1%Mid Cap 20.1%Small Cap 13.7%
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 stocks30
Top 5 stocks34.10%
Top 10 stocks51.85%
Top 20 stocks76.36%
Largest single holding10.08%
Largest sectorBanks · 28.54%
Number of sectors17
Effective stocks23.8
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

Banks — 28.5%Automobiles — 9.1%IT - Software — 8.5%Capital Markets — 6.1%Realty — 5.8%Finance — 5.5%Cash & Equivalents — 5.2%Telecom - Services — 4.4%Insurance — 4.3%Other — 22.5%Banks28.5%Automobiles9.1%IT - Software8.5%Capital Markets6.1%Realty5.8%Finance5.5%Cash & Equivalents5.2%Telecom - Services4.4%Insurance4.3%Other22.5%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 54.3% 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 10.08%
HDFC Bank Limited 9.22%
Axis Bank Limited 6.04%
TREPS / Reverse Repo Investments 5.56%
Bharti Airtel Limited 4.42%
SBI Life Insurance Co Limited 4.34%
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 4.27%
Phoenix Mills Limited 3.82%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Limited 3.30%
State Bank of India 3.20%
Tech Mahindra Limited 3.16%
Coromandel International Limited 2.92%

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₹108 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹15.9 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions1 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of0 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.44% 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 1
TVS Motor Co Limited 121,986 entered — 51.2 51.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Axis Bank Limited 201,564 +19.6% -0.7% 24.5 150
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited 52,341 +16.3% -3.7% 14.9 106
SBI Life Insurance Co Limited 88,084 +15.7% -2.2% 14.6 108
HDFC Bank Limited 173,033 +5.5% -2.2% 12.0 229
Tech Mahindra Limited 65,671 +17.6% +17.5% 11.8 78.4
Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited 125,712 +28.7% -19.1% 10.1 45.4
Syngene International Limited 192,575 +19.5% +10.2% 7.8 47.5
Century Plyboards (India) Limited 113,908 +18.0% -6.8% 7.2 47.5
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 3
Coforge Limited 38,804 -10.3% +16.9% 7.9 69.2
IPCA Laboratories Limited 26,139 -10.2% +0.0% 5.0 44.4
Infosys Limited 24,280 -4.3% +19.2% 2.9 64.2

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 Focused 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
DSP Focused Fund DSP Mutual Fund · this scheme 4.2% -6.7% 1.05 18.5% -0.12 -49.8%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Focused Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 6.7% -4.4% 0.88 15.7% 0.01 -60.6%
Bandhan Focused Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 7.3% -3.8% 0.98 19.0% 0.04 -56.4%
Edelweiss Focused Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 9.1% -3.0% 0.99 17.2% 0.15 -21.8%
Franklin India Focused Equity Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 0.4% -10.6% 0.92 16.6% -0.37 -67.6%
HSBC Focused Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 5.0% -6.2% 1.01 18.3% -0.08 -21.9%
ICICI Prudential Focused Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 8.1% -3.8% 1.06 18.7% 0.08 -50.7%
Invesco India Focused Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 12.2% 1.0% 1.32 22.8% 0.25 -38.3%
LIC MF Focused Fund LIC Mutual Fund 9.2% -2.2% 0.93 16.2% 0.17 -21.4%

Alpha and beta are against NIFTY 500 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 DSP Focused Fund side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 27 Focused funds.

What a Focused scheme is

A maximum of 30 stocks, at least 65% in equity.

Concentration by design. Every holding matters, so the fund rises and falls on a handful of decisions — which means the gap between a good and a bad focused fund is far wider than in a diversified one.

Who it suits. Investors who want a manager's highest-conviction ideas and can accept being wrong in a concentrated way.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of DSP Focused Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹21.2050 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 DSP Focused 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?

A maximum of 30 stocks, at least 65% in equity. Concentration by design. Every holding matters, so the fund rises and falls on a handful of decisions — which means the gap between a good and a bad focused fund is far wider than in a diversified one.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who want a manager's highest-conviction ideas and can accept being wrong in a concentrated way.