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ICICI Prudential Multi Cap Fund

Option Growth IDCW
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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

Launched2 Apr 2006 20.5 years of history
CategoryMulti CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 101706
BenchmarkNifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 5,039 published NAVs between 2 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
ICICI Prudential Multi Cap Fund Regular -1.86-0.7214.63 -3.715.224.01 6.983.132.37
Nifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25 benchmark -4.06-1.346.36 -1.28—— ——-0.65
Multi Cap category median · 26 funds ——— 5.0213.5111.16 —13.46—

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 Multi 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
ICICI Prudential Multi Cap Fund Regular 21.05 -0.06 -0.08 0.94 -5.04 -69.50
Nifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25 benchmark 14.72 -0.49 -0.67 —— -19.96

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
21.1%16.3%-0.06-0.08

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-69.5%150 months-14.2%
0%-25%-51%-76%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
86.3%1.8%-64.8%45%
Worst-64.8%Median1.8%Best86.3%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

24.0%2021-5.2%202224.6%202311.2%2024-3.5%20255.5%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 ₹689,112 today, an XIRR of 5.48% 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

97.98%Equity
2.02%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

76.52%Large
59.11%Mid
60.43%Small
Large Cap 76.5%76.5%Mid Cap 59.1%59.1%Small Cap 60.4%60.4%Large Cap 76.5%Mid Cap 59.1%Small Cap 60.4%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small.

Concentration

Number of stocks164
Top 5 stocks13.04%
Top 10 stocks23.93%
Top 20 stocks40.64%
Largest single holding2.86%
Largest sectorElectrical Equipment · 9.31%
Number of sectors33
Effective stocks81.1
Cash & equivalents2.02%

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

Electrical Equipment — 9.3%Industrial Products — 8.0%Auto Components — 7.8%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 7.0%Finance — 6.8%Capital Markets — 6.7%Ferrous Metals — 5.3%Consumer Durables — 4.8%Cement & Cement Products — 4.5%Other — 39.9%Electrical Equipment9.3%Industrial Products8.0%Auto Components7.8%Chemicals & Petrochemicals7.0%Finance6.8%Capital Markets6.7%Ferrous Metals5.3%Consumer Durables4.8%Cement & Cement Products4.5%Other39.9%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 23.9% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd. 2.86%
Apar Industries Ltd. 2.72%
BSE Ltd. 2.59%
Ultratech Cement Ltd. 2.45%
Jindal Steel Ltd. 2.41%
Interglobe Aviation Ltd. 2.21%
K.P.R. Mill Ltd. 2.20%
PB Fintech Ltd. 2.20%
Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd. 2.17%
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Ltd. 2.10%
ABB India Ltd. 2.09%
TREPS 2.01%

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 Mar 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₹1,587 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹205 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions34 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of17 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +22.38% 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 8
Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd. 12,852,245 entered — 584 584
CEAT Ltd. 415,373 entered — 142 142
Shriram Finance Ltd. 800,000 entered — 83.7 83.7
Balkrishna Industries Ltd. 280,054 entered — 69.3 69.3
Acutaas Chemicals Ltd. 215,882 entered — 67.0 67.0
Welspun Corp Ltd. 402,326 entered — 66.4 66.4
Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. 267,886 entered — 58.7 58.7
Eicher Motors Ltd. 67,129 entered — 52.6 52.6
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Manappuram Finance Ltd. 3,671,836 +73.9% +48.1% 137 321
Syngene International Ltd. 2,795,494 +74.1% -1.0% 108 254
Aarti Industries Ltd. 2,155,943 +180.4% +22.6% 105 164
Titan Company Ltd. 205,242 +542.1% +23.4% 100 119
Bajaj Finance Ltd. 765,110 +73.1% +42.4% 87.3 207
PB Fintech Ltd. 500,000 +27.9% +12.2% 80.1 367
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 1,900,000 +60.1% +16.2% 74.1 197
Apar Industries Ltd. 50,000 +20.0% +45.2% 71.7 431
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 7
Tata Chemicals Ltd. 1,672,966 -69.7% +15.5% 113 49.1
V-Guard Industries Ltd. 1,036,402 -36.0% -0.2% 32.6 57.9
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 22,171 -14.5% +31.2% 25.5 151
Cyient Ltd. 133,903 -12.4% +12.6% 11.4 80.2
Jm Financial Ltd. 890,318 -46.0% +7.5% 10.9 12.8
Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. 119,747 -9.1% +65.6% 6.9 69.0
Birlasoft Ltd. 154,350 -6.6% -9.1% 4.7 66.4
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 2,712,297 exited — 483 —
Affle India Ltd. 726,086 exited — 105 —
Biocon Ltd. 2,823,501 exited — 102 —
Kalpataru Projects International Ltd 730,829 exited — 77.3 —
Orient Electric Ltd. 4,603,194 exited — 72.0 —
Max Financial Services Ltd. 467,782 exited — 69.7 —
Adani Wilmar Ltd 3,469,219 exited — 61.7 —
Info Edge (India) Ltd. 577,822 exited — 55.9 —

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 Multi 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
ICICI Prudential Multi Cap Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 5.2% -5.0% 0.94 21.1% -0.06 -69.5%
Axis Multicap Fund Axis Mutual Fund 16.9% 4.5% 0.95 13.8% 0.76 -18.5%
HSBC Multi Cap Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 15.6% 2.5% 1.02 14.9% 0.61 -20.3%
BANK OF INDIA MULTI CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 15.4% 3.2% 0.96 15.0% 0.60 -20.7%
LIC MF Multi Cap Fund LIC Mutual Fund 15.3% 3.6% 1.06 14.0% 0.63 -19.8%
Mahindra Manulife Multi Cap Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 15.0% 4.3% 0.98 16.9% 0.50 -34.5%
Kotak Multi Cap Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 14.4% 1.5% 1.03 15.3% 0.51 -21.4%
ITI Multi Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 14.1% 3.2% 1.07 17.6% 0.43 -38.9%
ICICI Prudential Multi Cap Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 13.5% 1.9% 0.94 19.0% 0.37 -62.1%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25. 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 Multi Cap scheme is

At least 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory.

Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

Who it suits. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Multi Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹33.9000 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 ICICI Prudential Multi 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?

At least 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory. Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.