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HDFC Ultra Short to Short Term Fund

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Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.5 years of history
CategoryUltra Short DurationSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth Option code 102452
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 4,956 published NAVs between 3 Apr 2006 and 18 Sep 2026 — 20.5 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 Ultra Short to Short Term Fund Regular 0.351.472.98 5.756.776.09 6.206.487.12
Ultra Short Duration category median · 58 funds ——— 5.976.786.11 —6.40—

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 Ultra Short Duration — 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
HDFC Ultra Short to Short Term Fund Regular 0.62 0.44 0.93 — — -1.29

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
0.6%0.3%0.440.93

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-1.3%0 monthsAt a high

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
9.6%7.6%2.9%0%
Worst2.9%Median7.6%Best9.6%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

3.7%20214.1%20227.0%20237.4%20247.2%20254.0%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 ₹708,606 today, an XIRR of 6.59% 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

96.77%Debt
2.83%Cash & Equivalents
0.40%AIF 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

—Large
—Mid
—Small
Unclassified 194.6%194.6%Unclassified 194.6%
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 stocks144
Top 5 stocks19.83%
Top 10 stocks31.41%
Top 20 stocks48.03%
Largest single holding5.15%
Largest sectorCRISIL - AAA · 47.45%
Number of sectors16
Effective stocks58.8
Cash & equivalents2.83%

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

CRISIL - AAA — 47.5%Sovereign — 10.2%CRISIL - AA — 9.1%ICRA - AAA — 9.0%CARE - AAA — 4.6%CRISIL - A1+ — 3.6%CARE - A1+ — 3.4%CRISIL - AAA(SO) — 3.3%Other — 9.3%CRISIL - AAA47.5%Sovereign10.2%CRISIL - AA9.1%ICRA - AAA9.0%CARE - AAA4.6%CRISIL - A1+3.6%CARE - A1+3.4%CRISIL - AAA(SO)3.3%Other9.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 32.0% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Small Industries Development Bank 5.15%
Floating Rate GOI 2028 4.39%
Jubilant Beverages Limited 3.74%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 3.62%
Floating Rate GOI 2033 2.93%
National Housing Bank 2.65%
Net Current Assets 2.55%
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 2.53%
Yes Bank Ltd. 2.32%
Bajaj Housing Finance Ltd. 2.11%
Power Finance Corporation Ltd. 1.97%
Power Finance Corporation Ltd. 1.95%

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₹662 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹171 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions6 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of10 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -0.23% 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
UCO Bank 4,000 entered — 188 188
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 1,200 entered — 122 122
L&T Finance Ltd. 9,660 entered — 96.5 96.5
Muthoot Finance Ltd. 7,500 entered — 75.0 75.0
Power Finance Corporation Ltd. 250 entered — 25.6 25.6
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 250 entered — 25.4 25.4
Added tobought more shares than last month 5
Small Industries Development Bank 28,500 +45.2% -0.1% 286 918
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 17,500 +37.2% -0.4% 175 646
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 7,500 +75.0% -0.4% 75.2 175
REC Limited. 7,500 +300.0% -0.3% 74.2 98.9
6.64% GOI MAT 071231 5,000,000 +20.0% -0.2% 51.3 308
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 4
ADITYA BIRLA RENEWABLES LIMITED 7,500 -25.0% +0.0% 75.2 226
Floating Rate GOI 2028 4,500,000 -4.4% -0.1% 45.3 982
Indian Railways Finance Corp. Ltd. 2,500 -33.3% -0.1% 25.1 50.1
360 One Prime Limited 2,500 -50.0% -0.2% 25.0 25.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Jamnagar Utilities & Power Pvt. Limited 3,750 exited — 374 —
Indian Railways Finance Corp. Ltd. 31,000 exited — 310 —
National Bank for Agri & Rural Dev. 20,000 exited — 200 —
Indian Railways Finance Corp. Ltd. 15,000 exited — 150 —
Small Industries Development Bank 10,000 exited — 100 —
Muthoot Finance Ltd. 7,500 exited — 75.4 —
ONGC Petro Additions Limited (Letter Of Comfort By ONGC Limited) 7,500 exited — 75.3 —
Sikka Port and Terminal Ltd. 300 exited — 30.0 —

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 Ultra Short Duration 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 Ultra Short to Short Term Fund HDFC Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.8% — — 0.6% 0.44 -1.3%
HSBC Ultra Short to Short Term Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 7.4% — — 0.8% 1.09 -0.2%
ICICI Prudential Ultra Short to Short Term Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.3% — — 0.7% 1.22 -1.6%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Ultra Short Term Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 7.2% — — 0.6% 1.28 -1.2%
UTI Ultra Short to Short Term Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.2% — — 2.3% 0.28 -12.1%
Mirae Asset Ultra Short-Term Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 7.1% — — 0.3% 1.93 -0.2%
Axis Ultra Short to Short Term Fund Axis Mutual Fund 7.1% — — 0.6% 0.95 -1.5%
Baroda BNP Paribas Ultra Short Term Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 7.1% — — 0.5% 1.09 -1.0%
ICICI Prudential Ultra Short term Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 1.7% 0.29 -7.6%

Alpha and beta are against the category index. 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 Ultra Short Duration scheme is

Portfolio duration of 3 to 6 months.

A step out from liquid funds for slightly more return and slightly more movement. Still short enough that a rate change barely registers.

Who it suits. Money needed in three to six months.

How long money should stay. 3 to 6 months.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of HDFC Ultra Short to Short Term Fund — Regular Plan — Growth Option?

₹61.8867 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 HDFC Ultra Short to Short Term 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?

Portfolio duration of 3 to 6 months. A step out from liquid funds for slightly more return and slightly more movement. Still short enough that a rate change barely registers.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 3 to 6 months. Money needed in three to six months.