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DSP Midcap Fund

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Fund basics

Launched2 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryMid CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 119071
BenchmarkNifty Midcap 150 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,377 published NAVs between 2 Jan 2013 and 18 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 1M3M6M1Y3Y5Y7Y10YSince launch
DSP Midcap Fund Direct -1.880.9012.88 3.3114.2111.62 18.0214.3216.84
Nifty Midcap 150 benchmark -4.60-1.648.07 3.0814.1215.01 21.84—21.83
Mid Cap category median · 33 funds ——— 7.1417.2315.17 —16.28—

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 Mid 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 Midcap Fund Direct 15.94 0.48 0.66 0.88 -2.45 -32.72
Nifty Midcap 150 benchmark 18.28 0.42 0.55 —— -37.19

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 84 months this fund and Nifty Midcap 150 (via Motilal Oswal Nifty Midcap 150 Index Fund) both have. Alpha is Jensen's — the return left over after the market move this fund's own beta would predict.

AlphaBetaR²Fund vs indexUp captureDown captureTracking errorInformation ratioTreynor
-2.45%0.8893%-4.28%86%92%5.57%-0.7712.24

Up and down capture are the pair worth reading together: a fund that takes 95% of the rises but only 80% of the falls is doing something a headline CAGR will never show you.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
15.9%11.7%0.480.66

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-32.7%5 months-2.8%
0%-10%-21%-31%2014201620182020202220242026
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
101.9%15.8%-22.0%20%
Worst-22.0%Median15.8%Best101.9%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

29.6%2021-4.0%202239.7%202323.6%20242.7%20254.2%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 ₹851,244 today, an XIRR of 13.97% 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

95.79%Equity
4.21%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

AMFI has not classified this scheme's holdings into large, mid and small cap in the filing we hold, so there is no split to show. The section is left here rather than hidden so it is clear the data is missing, not that the fund holds nothing.

Concentration

Number of stocks64
Top 5 stocks15.79%
Top 10 stocks28.22%
Top 20 stocks48.44%
Largest single holding4.48%
Largest sectorAuto Components · 10.56%
Number of sectors27
Effective stocks54.1
Cash & equivalents4.21%

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

Auto Components — 10.6%Industrial Products — 8.5%Banks — 7.6%Finance — 7.4%IT - Software — 7.0%Capital Markets — 5.1%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 4.6%Healthcare Services — 4.3%Cash & Equivalents — 4.2%Other — 40.8%Auto Components10.6%Industrial Products8.5%Banks7.6%Finance7.4%IT - Software7.0%Capital Markets5.1%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…4.6%Healthcare Services4.3%Cash & Equivalents4.2%Other40.8%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 30.2% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Coforge Limited 4.48%
TREPS / Reverse Repo Investments 4.26%
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Limited 3.16%
Fortis Healthcare Limited 2.79%
IPCA Laboratories Limited 2.70%
Federal Bank Limited 2.66%
Max Financial Services Limited 2.63%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Limited 2.59%
Phoenix Mills Limited 2.48%
Bharat Forge Limited 2.42%
Coromandel International Limited 2.31%
APL Apollo Tubes Limited 2.20%

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.

Bought₹277 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹292 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions1 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of1 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +3.42% 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
Oberoi Realty Limited 640,065 entered — 120 120
Added tobought more shares than last month 4
Aster DM Quality Care Limited 1,442,109 +77.0% -8.1% 109 251
Vishal Mega Mart Limited 6,866,650 +40.3% +3.3% 76.0 264
Ge Vernova T&D India Limited 114,001 +30.8% +2.8% 50.7 215
Fortis Healthcare Limited 450,636 +7.5% -4.0% 40.9 587
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Shriram Finance Limited 454,945 -19.1% +6.0% 50.5 214
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Limited 267,862 -8.4% +0.4% 49.8 544
Power Finance Corporation Limited 1,418,597 -25.3% -20.8% 47.7 141
Jubilant Ingrevia Limited 543,877 -15.9% -8.3% 36.7 195
Atul Limited 49,804 -13.5% -5.1% 31.8 204
Polycab India Limited 26,518 -18.1% +3.7% 25.1 113
Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited 180,039 -24.4% +4.8% 15.0 46.6
KEI Industries Limited 26,029 -3.5% +14.8% 14.9 418
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 1
Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd 244,453 exited — 107 —

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 Mid 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.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
DSP Midcap Fund DSP Mutual Fund · this scheme 14.2% -2.5% 0.88 15.9% 0.48 -32.7%
Invesco India Mid Cap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 22.4% 3.8% 0.91 15.9% 1.00 -34.1%
HSBC Midcap Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 22.9% 5.8% 1.01 16.9% 0.97 -26.0%
WhiteOak Capital Mid Cap Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 21.0% 5.8% 0.92 14.5% 1.00 -19.3%
ICICI Prudential Mid Cap Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 20.1% -0.2% 0.99 16.8% 0.81 -44.0%
Edelweiss Mid Cap Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 19.9% 3.3% 0.95 17.0% 0.79 -39.2%
ITI Mid Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 19.2% 0.3% 0.96 16.1% 0.79 -22.7%
JM Mid Cap Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund 17.9% 4.9% 0.99 16.4% 0.70 -22.5%
BANDHAN MID CAP FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 17.4% 1.9% 0.94 14.8% 0.74 -22.7%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty Midcap 150. 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 Mid Cap scheme is

At least 65% in companies ranked 101st to 250th by market value.

The middle of the market: businesses large enough to have survived a cycle, small enough to double. Returns are higher over long periods and the falls are deeper — a 40% drawdown is ordinary here, not a crisis.

Who it suits. Investors who already hold large-cap funds and can leave the money untouched through a bad year.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of DSP Midcap Fund — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹170.2110 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 Midcap 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 Growth option mean?

Growth reinvests everything the fund earns back into the NAV. Nothing is paid out, so the NAV rises with returns and you are taxed only when you sell. For anybody who does not need income from the investment, Growth is the simpler and usually the more tax-efficient option.

What kind of scheme is this?

At least 65% in companies ranked 101st to 250th by market value. The middle of the market: businesses large enough to have survived a cycle, small enough to double. Returns are higher over long periods and the falls are deeper — a 40% drawdown is ordinary here, not a crisis.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who already hold large-cap funds and can leave the money untouched through a bad year.