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HDFC Large & Mid Cap Fund

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Fund basics

Launched30 Jun 2014 12.2 years of history
CategoryLarge & Mid CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW Option code 130497
BenchmarkNifty LargeMidcap 250 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on24 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,006 published NAVs between 30 Jun 2014 and 17 Sep 2026 — 12.2 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
HDFC Large & Mid Cap Fund Regular -3.26-0.389.88 -8.033.997.62 10.354.893.41
Nifty LargeMidcap 250 benchmark -4.60-7.94-2.03 -7.048.54— ——10.32
Large & Mid Cap category median · 32 funds ——— 2.3611.9010.58 —13.36—

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 Regular plan in Large & 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 24 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
HDFC Large & Mid Cap Fund Regular 18.69 -0.13 -0.17 0.93 -2.33 -60.62
Nifty LargeMidcap 250 benchmark 14.85 0.14 0.19 —— -18.87

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
18.7%15.0%-0.13-0.17

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-60.6%30 months-17.2%
0%-22%-43%-65%201620182020202220242026
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
78.1%0.3%-44.3%50%
Worst-44.3%Median0.3%Best78.1%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

29.8%20218.2%202229.8%202312.8%2024-1.7%2025-9.0%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 ₹677,407 today, an XIRR of 4.80% 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

99.09%Equity
0.45%Cash & Equivalents
0.34%REITs / InvITs
0.12%ETF Units

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

87.75%Large
79.36%Mid
31.52%Small
Large Cap 87.8%87.8%Mid Cap 79.4%79.4%Small Cap 31.5%31.5%Unclassified 0.3%Large Cap 87.8%Mid Cap 79.4%Small Cap 31.5%Unclassified 0.3%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small.

Concentration

Number of stocks242
Top 5 stocks12.38%
Top 10 stocks19.27%
Top 20 stocks31.15%
Largest single holding3.79%
Largest sectorBanks · 16.93%
Number of sectors44
Effective stocks105.8
Cash & equivalents0.45%

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 — 16.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 11.6%Finance — 8.2%IT - Software — 6.6%Auto Components — 4.5%Automobiles — 3.9%Retailing — 3.6%Insurance — 3.0%Other — 41.8%Banks16.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…11.6%Finance8.2%IT - Software6.6%Auto Components4.5%Automobiles3.9%Retailing3.6%Insurance3.0%Other41.8%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 19.3% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Bank Ltd. 3.79%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 3.43%
Axis Bank Ltd. 1.95%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 1.74%
State Bank of India 1.47%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 1.44%
Fortis Healthcare Limited 1.42%
Max Financial Services Ltd. 1.35%
Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. 1.35%
Gland Pharma Ltd. 1.33%
Maruti Suzuki India Limited 1.31%
Indusind Bank Ltd. 1.26%

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 Jun 2026 and 31 Jul 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₹124 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹27.1 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions2 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of0 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +3.05% 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 2
Diamond Power Infrastructure Limited 1,545,714 entered — 50.1 50.1
GSPL Transmission Limited 311,846 entered — 4.7 4.7
Added tobought more shares than last month 2
Biocon Ltd. 2,044,548 +204.5% +1.8% 87.0 130
Axis Bank Ltd. 300,000 +7.1% -8.6% 36.9 559
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 2
Infosys Limited 231,484 -7.2% +13.0% 26.2 339
Kajaria Ceramics Ltd. 7,694 -2.3% -1.0% 0.9 39.8

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 & Mid 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
HDFC Large & Mid Cap Fund HDFC Mutual Fund · this scheme 4.0% -2.3% 0.93 18.7% -0.13 -60.6%
Invesco India Large & Mid Cap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 20.1% 5.6% 1.01 17.5% 0.78 -58.9%
Motilal Oswal Large and Midcap Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund 19.7% 7.0% 1.09 19.2% 0.69 -37.5%
Bandhan Large & Mid Cap Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 15.4% 5.6% 0.94 17.6% 0.51 -45.7%
HSBC Large & Mid Cap Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 15.6% 3.0% 0.99 18.2% 0.50 -36.2%
ICICI Prudential Large & Mid Cap Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 12.9% 4.9% 0.82 19.1% 0.33 -55.7%
Axis Large & Mid Cap Fund Axis Mutual Fund 13.1% 0.5% 0.90 14.5% 0.46 -32.0%
UTI Large & Mid Cap Fund UTI Mutual Fund 12.6% 3.8% 0.91 21.6% 0.28 -70.1%
Nippon India Vision Large & Mid Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 12.7% 2.7% 0.92 19.9% 0.31 -60.8%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty LargeMidcap 250. 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 & Mid Cap scheme is

At least 35% in large caps and 35% in mid caps.

A fixed blend of stability and growth, written into the rules. It sits between a large-cap and a mid-cap fund without the manager being able to drift to whichever is winning.

Who it suits. Somebody who finds pure mid cap too sharp and pure large cap too slow.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of HDFC Large & Mid Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW Option?

₹34.7780 as on 24 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 HDFC Large & Mid 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 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 35% in large caps and 35% in mid caps. A fixed blend of stability and growth, written into the rules. It sits between a large-cap and a mid-cap fund without the manager being able to drift to whichever is winning.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Somebody who finds pure mid cap too sharp and pure large cap too slow.