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ICICI Prudential Ultra Short term Fund

Option IDCW Growth

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Fund basics

Launched24 May 2011 15.3 years of history
CategoryUltra Short DurationSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth code 115092
Benchmark— no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,698 published NAVs between 24 May 2011 and 16 Sep 2026 — 15.3 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
ICICI Prudential Ultra Short term Fund Regular 0.471.673.32 6.316.996.30 6.196.657.37
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
ICICI Prudential Ultra Short term Fund Regular 1.70 0.29 0.41 — — -7.65

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
1.7%1.2%0.290.41

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-7.6%8 monthsAt a high
0%-2%-4%-5%20122014201620182020202220242026
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
16.2%7.3%1.3%0%
Worst1.3%Median7.3%Best16.2%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

4.0%20214.5%20226.9%20237.5%20247.1%20254.5%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 ₹711,825 today, an XIRR of 6.77% 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

92.36%Debt
6.42%Cash & Equivalents
0.91%REITs / InvITs
0.31%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 93.6%93.6%Unclassified 93.6%
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 stocks128
Top 5 stocks13.36%
Top 10 stocks23.33%
Top 20 stocks39.50%
Largest single holding3.12%
Largest sectorCRISIL A1+ · 39.34%
Number of sectors17
Effective stocks83.3
Cash & equivalents6.42%

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 A1+ — 39.3%CRISIL AAA — 12.6%SOV — 8.3%Cash & Equivalents — 6.4%ICRA AAA — 6.0%ICRA AA — 4.5%CRISIL AA+ — 4.3%ICRA A1+ — 4.2%ICRA AA+ — 3.1%Other — 11.2%CRISIL A1+39.3%CRISIL AAA12.6%SOV8.3%Cash & Equivalents6.4%ICRA AAA6.0%ICRA AA4.5%CRISIL AA+4.3%ICRA A1+4.2%ICRA AA+3.1%Other11.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 26.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

TREPS 5.34%
91 Days Treasury Bills 3.12%
Canara Bank 2.88%
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. 2.74%
Punjab National Bank 2.43%
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. 2.19%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 2.13%
NABARD 2.04%
Vedanta Ltd. 1.99%
Government Securities 1.94%
91 Days Treasury Bills 1.87%
Axis Bank Ltd. 1.83%

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₹594 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,190 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions47 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of55 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +1.42% 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 8
91 Days Treasury Bills 50,000,000 entered — 496 496
Canara Bank 9,500 entered — 456 456
Punjab National Bank 8,000 entered — 386 386
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. 35,000 entered — 351 351
91 Days Treasury Bills 30,000,000 entered — 297 297
Punjab National Bank 4,000 entered — 193 193
The Federal Bank Ltd. 4,000 entered — 188 188
Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd. 1,500 entered — 151 151
Added tobought more shares than last month 6
HDFC Bank Ltd. 4,000 +133.3% +2.6% 193 338
NABARD 12,500 +62.5% 0.0% 125 326
Mahindra Rural Housing Finance Ltd. 10,000 +200.0% -0.3% 100 150
NABARD 10,000 +200.0% +0.1% 100 150
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. 5,000 +200.0% +0.2% 50.0 75.0
Nirma Ltd. 2,500 +20.7% +0.2% 25.1 146
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Radhakrishna Securitization Trust 175 -38.9% +0.0% 172 270
NABARD 3,500 -87.5% +2.5% 169 24.2
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. 3,000 -50.0% +2.5% 148 148
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. 2,500 -62.5% +2.4% 120 72.2
Manappuram Finance Ltd. 2,000 -66.7% +2.9% 99.0 49.5
HDFC Bank Ltd. 2,000 -50.0% +2.5% 96.8 96.8
Nuvama Wealth Finance Ltd. 7,500 -37.5% +0.1% 75.1 125
NABARD 7,500 -75.0% +0.1% 75.0 25.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Equitas Small Finance Bank Ltd. 5,000 exited — 246 —
AU Small Finance Bank Ltd. 5,000 exited — 243 —
Manappuram Finance Ltd. 5,000 exited — 241 —
Bank Of Baroda 5,000 exited — 236 —
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. - 04-Sep-2026 20,000 exited — 200 —
Nuvama Wealth & Investment Ltd 4,000 exited — 197 —
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. 4,000 exited — 188 —
Tata Projects Ltd. - 27-Apr-2026 16,500 exited — 165 —

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
ICICI Prudential Ultra Short term Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 7.0% — — 1.7% 0.29 -7.6%
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%
BANDHAN ULTRA SHORT TERM FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 7.0% — — 0.5% 0.90 -0.9%

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 ICICI Prudential Ultra Short term Fund — Regular Plan — Growth?

₹29.8772 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 Ultra 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.