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ICICI Prudential Value Fund (erstwhile Value Discovery Fund)

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Fund basics

Launched2 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryValue / ContraSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 120323
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,372 published NAVs between 2 Jan 2013 and 16 Sep 2026 — 13.7 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 Value Fund (erstwhile Value Discovery Fund) Direct -4.04-3.73-3.13 -6.1310.6713.84 18.8514.2016.80
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
Value / Contra category median · 25 funds ——— 0.7112.8812.62 —14.22—

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 Direct 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 25 Sep 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Value Fund (erstwhile Value Discovery Fund) Direct 14.02 0.30 0.42 0.83 6.01 -36.70
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.16 0.35 0.47 —— -37.31

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

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 83 months this fund and Nifty 500 (via Motilal Oswal Nifty 500 Index Fund) both have. 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
6.01%0.8388%4.53%93%62%6.34%0.7115.77

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
14.0%9.9%0.300.42

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-36.7%7 months-11.0%
0%-13%-25%-38%2014201620182020202220242026
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
100.7%13.7%-30.3%13%
Worst-30.3%Median13.7%Best100.7%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

39.3%202115.6%202232.1%202320.7%202414.4%2025-10.5%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 ₹786,772 today, an XIRR of 10.78% 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

96.64%Equity
2.69%Cash & Equivalents
0.68%Debt

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

83.07%Large
5.81%Mid
7.60%Small
Large Cap 83.1%83.1%Mid Cap 5.8%5.8%Small Cap 7.6%7.6%Unclassified 0.8%Large Cap 83.1%Mid Cap 5.8%Small Cap 7.6%Unclassified 0.8%
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 stocks63
Top 5 stocks33.66%
Top 10 stocks51.60%
Top 20 stocks72.05%
Largest single holding9.40%
Largest sectorBanks · 25.69%
Number of sectors26
Effective stocks26.3
Cash & equivalents2.69%

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 — 25.7%Insurance — 11.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 8.5%It - Software — 8.0%Diversified Fmcg — 6.9%Automobiles — 6.6%Petroleum Products — 5.3%Other — 27.2%Banks25.7%Insurance11.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…8.5%It - Software8.0%Diversified Fmcg6.9%Automobiles6.6%Petroleum Products5.3%Other27.2%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 51.6% 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. 9.40%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 8.72%
Life Insurance Corporation of India 5.89%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 5.10%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 4.55%
Infosys Ltd. 4.51%
ITC Ltd. 4.18%
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. 3.41%
Axis Bank Ltd. 2.96%
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 2.88%
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 2.67%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 2.45%

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 Jul 2026 and 31 Aug 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₹2,875 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,459 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions2 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of6 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -1.74% 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
Apollo Tyres Ltd. 20,610,000 entered — 905 905
Coal India Ltd. 11,461,111 entered — 460 460
Added tobought more shares than last month 4
Life Insurance Corporation of India 66,302,335 +362.6% -1.6% 2,771 3,536
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. 737,365 +22.2% -15.8% 66.5 366
Tata Steel Ltd. 1,067,373 +2.8% -2.8% 19.7 731
SBI Funds Management Ltd. 300,000 +45.9% -2.0% 17.3 55.1
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
ICICI Bank Ltd. 2,752,648 -6.6% +1.3% 400 5,649
Hyundai Motor India Ltd. 1,382,894 -26.0% +1.1% 305 868
Hero Motocorp Ltd. 319,331 -32.6% +1.2% 174 359
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 3,517,341 -12.5% +7.5% 148 1,030
Tata Motors Ltd. 3,009,840 -13.4% +7.9% 142 916
Canara HSBC Life Insurance Co Ltd 8,916,543 -83.6% +6.6% 139 27.3
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 1,975,000 -37.6% +1.3% 64.0 106
Infosys Ltd. 232,313 -1.0% +0.3% 26.3 2,710
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 6
Pfizer Ltd. 771,733 exited — 372 —
Container Corporation Of India Ltd. 2,865,849 exited — 151 —
Atul Ltd. 124,657 exited — 84.0 —
Bata India Ltd. 1,084,065 exited — 75.5 —
Vinati Organics Ltd. 238,161 exited — 31.1 —
Jindal Stainless Ltd. 8,290 exited — 0.6 —

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 Value / Contra Direct 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 Value Fund (erstwhile Value Discovery Fund) ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 10.7% 6.0% 0.83 14.0% 0.30 -36.7%
Quant Value Fund quant Mutual Fund 19.4% 8.7% 1.20 19.2% 0.67 -24.0%
Axis Value Fund Axis Mutual Fund 17.1% 7.0% 0.97 14.4% 0.73 -20.2%
LIC MF Value Fund LIC Mutual Fund 15.8% 5.8% 1.10 16.7% 0.56 -25.2%
DSP Value Fund DSP Mutual Fund 15.1% 5.4% 0.65 10.3% 0.83 -16.5%
HDFC Value Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 14.8% 2.6% 1.01 15.6% 0.53 -43.9%
HSBC Value Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 14.8% 7.8% 0.98 14.9% 0.56 -19.6%
Kotak Contra Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 14.1% 3.6% 0.99 15.4% 0.49 -37.9%
Invesco India Contra Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 13.1% 3.5% 0.99 15.8% 0.42 -36.5%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 500. 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 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 ICICI Prudential Value Fund (erstwhile Value Discovery Fund) — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹491.1600 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 Value Fund (erstwhile Value Discovery 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?

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.