DSP Large Cap 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
Everything the NAV says
Computed from 3,375 published NAVs between 2 Jan 2013 and 16 Sep 2026 — 13.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSP Large Cap Fund Direct | -4.66 | -3.69 | -1.76 | -15.02 | 0.43 | -0.76 | 3.45 | 0.48 | 0.93 |
| Nifty 100 benchmark | 0.25 | 3.49 | -1.52 | 1.84 | 10.52 | 9.38 | — | — | 12.79 |
| Large Cap category median · 35 funds | — | — | — | -2.31 | 10.36 | 8.72 | — | 11.88 | — |
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 Direct plan in Large 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 25 Sep 2026.
Risk measures
| Fund name | Volatility | Sharpe | Sortino | Beta | Alpha | Max fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSP Large Cap Fund Direct | 18.85 | -0.32 | -0.40 | 1.01 | -10.16 | -56.90 |
| Nifty 100 benchmark | 17.12 | 0.23 | 0.32 | — | — | -37.03 |
Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.
Risk
| Volatility | Downside volatility | Sharpe | Sortino |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18.8% | 15.1% | -0.32 | -0.40 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| -56.9% | 51 months | -22.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 68.7% | 1.2% | -39.4% | 47% |
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 ₹587,879 today, an XIRR of -0.80% 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
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 | 41 |
|---|---|
| Top 5 stocks | 36.34% |
| Top 10 stocks | 57.73% |
| Top 20 stocks | 81.62% |
| Largest single holding | 10.15% |
| Largest sector | Banks · 29.01% |
| Number of sectors | 22 |
| Effective stocks | 21.9 |
| Cash & equivalents | 1.27% |
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 57.7% 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 Jul 2026 and 31 Aug 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Added tobought more shares than last month 8 | |||||
| Page Industries Limited | 7,024 | +101.8% | -11.3% | 25.2 | 49.9 |
| Bharti Airtel Limited | 131,000 | +6.1% | -8.1% | 23.7 | 414 |
| Life Insurance Corporation Of India | 360,000 | +25.5% | -1.6% | 15.1 | 74.0 |
| HDFC Bank Limited | 199,000 | +2.2% | -5.2% | 14.1 | 670 |
| Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited | 540,402 | +16.5% | -4.4% | 12.5 | 88.5 |
| Asian Paints Limited | 41,180 | +7.6% | -3.4% | 10.9 | 155 |
| ICICI Bank Limited | 52,000 | +1.1% | +1.3% | 7.6 | 721 |
| SBI Life Insurance Co Limited | 40,500 | +3.9% | -7.5% | 7.1 | 189 |
| Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 6 | |||||
| Hindustan Aeronautics Limited | 71,486 | -20.0% | +3.3% | 34.3 | 138 |
| Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited | 533,881 | -11.6% | +7.5% | 22.4 | 172 |
| Hero MotoCorp Limited | 38,794 | -13.5% | +1.2% | 21.1 | 136 |
| Tata Motors Limited | 250,000 | -20.6% | +7.9% | 11.8 | 45.3 |
| Infosys Limited | 65,172 | -2.3% | +0.3% | 7.4 | 321 |
| United Spirits Limited | 47,000 | -9.2% | -1.7% | 7.0 | 68.8 |
| Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 2 | |||||
| Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd | 529,738 | exited | — | 42.2 | — |
| ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co Ltd | 162,536 | exited | — | 26.4 | — |
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 Large Cap Direct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSP Large Cap Fund DSP Mutual Fund · this scheme | 0.4% | -10.2% | 1.01 | 18.8% | -0.32 | -56.9% |
| Invesco India Large Cap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund | 12.7% | 3.7% | 0.99 | 15.4% | 0.41 | -36.9% |
| quant Large Cap Fund quant Mutual Fund | 12.1% | 3.5% | 1.11 | 15.0% | 0.38 | -21.1% |
| Taurus Large Cap Fund Taurus Mutual Fund | 11.5% | 0.3% | 0.96 | 15.9% | 0.31 | -35.1% |
| BANK OF INDIA LARGE CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund | 11.8% | 1.3% | 1.03 | 14.4% | 0.37 | -22.6% |
| WhiteOak Capital Large Cap Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund | 12.1% | 5.2% | 0.92 | 12.5% | 0.45 | -15.2% |
| BANDHAN LARGE CAP FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund | 11.7% | 2.8% | 0.93 | 15.4% | 0.33 | -35.1% |
| BARODA BNP PARIBAS LARGE CAP FUND Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund | 10.5% | 3.6% | 0.95 | 12.6% | 0.31 | -18.2% |
| ITI Large Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund | 10.1% | 0.2% | 1.02 | 14.7% | 0.24 | -20.8% |
Alpha and beta are against Nifty 100. 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 Large Cap scheme is
Funds that must keep at least 80% in India's 100 biggest listed companies.
The steadiest way to own Indian equity. These are businesses everybody already researches, so a manager rarely finds a bargain nobody else has seen — which is exactly why so many large-cap funds struggle to beat their index after fees.
Who it suits. Somebody making their first equity investment, or anybody who wants equity returns without the swings of smaller companies.
How long money should stay. 5 years or more.
Questions people ask
What is the NAV of DSP Large Cap Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW?
₹26.0190 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 DSP Large 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: 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 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?
Funds that must keep at least 80% in India's 100 biggest listed companies. The steadiest way to own Indian equity. These are businesses everybody already researches, so a manager rarely finds a bargain nobody else has seen — which is exactly why so many large-cap funds struggle to beat their index after fees.
How long should money stay in it?
Typically 5 years or more. Somebody making their first equity investment, or anybody who wants equity returns without the swings of smaller companies.