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HDFC Value Fund

All plans and options of HDFC Value Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
HDFC Value Fund — Direct Plan — Growth OptionDirectGrowth Option ₹915.5190 11 Nov 2026 118935
HDFC Value Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW OptionDirectIDCW ₹47.3600 11 Nov 2026 118934
HDFC Value Fund — Regular Plan — Growth OptionRegularGrowth Option ₹810.9830 11 Nov 2026 101764
HDFC Value Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW OptionRegularIDCW ₹37.7650 11 Nov 2026 101765

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

Launched18 Jul 2006 20.3 years of history
CategoryValue / ContraSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth Option code 101764
BenchmarkNIFTY 500 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on11 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 5,001 published NAVs between 18 Jul 2006 and 11 Nov 2026 — 20.3 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 Value Fund Regular 7.350.9710.96 6.0515.9312.49 16.2413.6014.84
NIFTY 500 TRI benchmark -6.32-5.775.05 -3.809.148.89 14.2512.6614.26
Value / Contra category median · 25 funds ——— -0.0912.6211.32 —14.39—

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 11 Nov 2026. The category row is the median Regular plan in Value / Contra — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 11 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
HDFC Value Fund Regular 15.68 0.60 0.92 0.99 3.70 -62.79
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.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 36 months this fund and NIFTY 500 TRI both have, using NSE's own Total Return Index for it. 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
3.70%0.9997%4.07%111%95%2.59%1.577.82

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
15.7%10.3%0.600.92

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-62.8%17 monthsAt a high
0%-22%-45%-67%2008201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
133.3%11.9%-56.8%21%
Worst-56.8%Median11.9%Best133.3%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

35.6%20213.6%202229.6%202320.7%20248.6%20255.1%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 ₹853,415 today, an XIRR of 14.07% 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 30 Sep 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

98.45%Equity
1.01%Cash & Equivalents
0.54%Foreign Securities

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

56.57%Large
22.69%Mid
18.19%Small
Large Cap 56.6%56.6%Mid Cap 22.7%22.7%Small Cap 18.2%18.2%Unclassified 1.5%Large Cap 56.6%Mid Cap 22.7%Small Cap 18.2%Unclassified 1.5%
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 stocks81
Top 5 stocks19.93%
Top 10 stocks30.77%
Top 20 stocks47.91%
Largest single holding6.17%
Largest sectorBanks · 21.90%
Number of sectors32
Effective stocks52.5
Cash & equivalents1.01%

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 — 21.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 6.9%IT - Software — 6.0%Finance — 5.7%Automobiles — 5.0%Auto Components — 4.7%Retailing — 4.7%Power — 4.2%Telecom - Services — 3.8%Other — 37.3%Banks21.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…6.9%IT - Software6.0%Finance5.7%Automobiles5.0%Auto Components4.7%Retailing4.7%Power4.2%Telecom - Services3.8%Other37.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 30.8% 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. 6.17%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 4.56%
Axis Bank Ltd. 3.20%
State Bank of India 3.16%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 2.84%
Larsen and Toubro Ltd. 2.46%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 2.20%
Au Small Finance Bank Ltd. 2.19%
NTPC Limited 2.01%
Infosys Limited 1.98%
Bharat Electronics Ltd. 1.93%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 1.85%

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 Aug 2026 and 30 Sep 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₹94.1 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹55.4 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions3 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of0 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -4.52% 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 3
Indusind Bank Ltd. 625,131 entered — 56.4 56.4
Spectrum Electrical Industries Limited. 124,875 entered — 43.2 43.2
Cummins India Ltd. 50,000 entered — 23.8 23.8
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Maruti Suzuki India Limited 18,000 +20.0% -11.7% 21.5 129
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 75,000 +8.3% -8.5% 13.6 177
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 56,501 +16.5% -4.5% 10.6 75.2
Eicher Motors Ltd. 10,000 +7.1% -10.1% 7.2 107
Tube Investments of India Ltd. 26,000 +10.0% -14.6% 6.2 67.9
360 ONE WAM LIMITED 50,000 +7.7% -12.3% 5.2 72.1
InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. 10,000 +7.1% -4.8% 5.0 74.8
Alkem Laboratories Ltd. 9,641 +7.4% -3.1% 5.0 72.3
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 6
Trent Ltd. 62,941 -22.9% -9.0% 16.5 55.6
UNIPARTS INDIA LIMITED 179,870 -56.2% -6.4% 15.0 11.7
STERLITE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 150,000 -9.7% +24.9% 13.7 127
ACME Solar Holdings Limited 134,981 -4.3% +9.2% 5.9 132
Apar Industries Limited 2,000 -3.1% -1.8% 3.5 108
Baazar Style Retail Limited 20,000 -2.0% -4.0% 0.8 37.7

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 Value / Contra 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 Value Fund HDFC Mutual Fund · this scheme 15.9% 3.7% 0.99 15.7% 0.60 -62.8%
Axis Value Fund Axis Mutual Fund 17.4% 5.5% 0.95 15.2% 0.72 -20.8%
Quant Value Fund quant Mutual Fund 17.2% 6.3% 1.20 20.9% 0.51 -24.7%
DSP Value Fund DSP Mutual Fund 16.6% 5.5% 0.65 11.0% 0.92 -16.8%
LIC MF Value Fund LIC Mutual Fund 16.3% 4.4% 1.07 18.9% 0.52 -25.4%
Invesco India Contra Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 14.9% 2.6% 1.02 16.5% 0.51 -58.1%
HSBC Value Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 14.8% 2.7% 1.02 16.7% 0.50 -19.9%
Kotak Contra Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 14.0% 1.9% 1.01 15.9% 0.47 -58.4%
ICICI Prudential Value Fund (erstwhile Value Discovery Fund) ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 13.2% 1.4% 0.79 13.3% 0.50 -63.8%

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 HDFC Value Fund side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 29 Value / Contra funds.

What a Value / Contra scheme is

At least 65% in equity, following a value or contrarian strategy.

Buying what the market dislikes. These funds can lag for years — sometimes many years — and then make it back quickly. Judging one over three years usually judges the market's mood rather than the manager.

Who it suits. Patient investors who understand that being early looks identical to being wrong.

How long money should stay. 7 to 10 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of HDFC Value Fund — Regular Plan — Growth Option?

₹810.9830 as on 11 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 HDFC Value 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 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 equity, following a value or contrarian strategy. Buying what the market dislikes. These funds can lag for years — sometimes many years — and then make it back quickly. Judging one over three years usually judges the market's mood rather than the manager.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 to 10 years. Patient investors who understand that being early looks identical to being wrong.