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Kotak Active Momentum Fund

Plan Direct

Fund basics

Launched28 Aug 2025 1.1 years of history
CategorySectoral / ThematicSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 153753
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 260 published NAVs between 28 Aug 2025 and 17 Sep 2026 — 1.1 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
Kotak Active Momentum Fund Direct -4.082.5614.73 7.11—— ——8.30
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
Sectoral / Thematic category median · 134 funds ——— 5.0014.3612.50 —14.88—

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 Sectoral / Thematic — 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
Kotak Active Momentum Fund Direct 15.32 0.12 0.16 0.98 7.63 -13.61
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 12 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
7.63%0.9888%7.64%109%64%6.28%1.226.84

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
15.3%11.1%0.120.16

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-13.6%3 months-5.1%
0%-5%-10%-15%2026
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.

Calendar years

20263.0%

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

96.44%Equity
3.56%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

37.33%Large
56.95%Mid
2.16%Small
Large Cap 37.3%37.3%Mid Cap 57.0%57.0%Small Cap 2.2%Large Cap 37.3%Mid Cap 57.0%Small Cap 2.2%
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 stocks50
Top 5 stocks14.92%
Top 10 stocks27.74%
Top 20 stocks50.59%
Largest single holding3.95%
Largest sectorElectrical Equipment · 11.60%
Number of sectors25
Effective stocks48.8
Cash & equivalents3.56%

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 — 11.6%Banks — 9.8%Automobiles — 7.4%Finance — 7.3%Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology — 6.6%Auto Components — 5.6%Chemicals and Petrochemicals — 4.7%Non - Ferrous Metals — 4.6%Consumer Durables — 4.2%Other — 38.3%Electrical Equipment11.6%Banks9.8%Automobiles7.4%Finance7.3%Pharmaceuticals and Biote…6.6%Auto Components5.6%Chemicals and Petrochemic…4.7%Non - Ferrous Metals4.6%Consumer Durables4.2%Other38.3%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 29.0% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Laurus Labs Ltd 3.95%
Triparty Repo 3.75%
BHARAT FORGE LTD. 2.93%
National Aluminium Company Ltd. 2.71%
Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd 2.70%
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. 2.63%
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. 2.61%
Apar Industries Ltd. 2.59%
FSN E-Commerce Ventures Ltd. 2.55%
TVS Motor Company Ltd. 2.55%
GE VERNOVA T&D INDIA LIMITED 2.52%
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 2.49%

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₹79.0 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹123 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions35 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of31 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +2.53% 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
BHARAT FORGE LTD. 230,939 entered — 48.6 48.6
National Aluminium Company Ltd. 1,179,311 entered — 45.0 45.0
Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd 551,636 entered — 44.9 44.9
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. 985,969 entered — 43.6 43.6
Apar Industries Ltd. 24,319 entered — 43.1 43.1
FSN E-Commerce Ventures Ltd. 1,211,391 entered — 42.3 42.3
GE VERNOVA T&D INDIA LIMITED 93,931 entered — 41.8 41.8
ADANI ENERGY SOLUTIONS LTD. 282,865 entered — 40.1 40.1
Added tobought more shares than last month 6
Asian Paints(India) Ltd. 86,849 +439.2% -3.4% 23.1 28.3
POONAWALLA FINCORP LIMITED 404,994 +349.0% +0.1% 18.8 24.2
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 14,777 +76.8% +5.3% 17.9 41.3
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. 73,714 +41.3% +8.7% 12.7 43.3
Hindustan Zinc Ltd. 103,207 +23.7% +10.4% 6.2 32.1
HITACHI ENERGY INDIA LTD. 132 +1.2% +4.9% 0.5 39.2
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
L&T FINANCE LTD 870,323 -42.5% +3.1% 27.9 37.8
Laurus Labs Ltd 140,101 -29.0% +5.4% 26.8 65.6
BAJAJ FINANCE LTD. 223,120 -46.4% -7.4% 23.6 27.2
IDFC FIRST BANK LIMITED 1,578,890 -31.9% +1.5% 13.6 29.0
Radico Khaitan Ltd. 17,735 -16.3% +3.3% 8.0 41.0
TVS Motor Company Ltd. 17,546 -15.2% +0.7% 7.6 42.4
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. 199,868 -18.6% -3.3% 7.5 32.6
YES BANK LTD. 2,729,859 -18.1% +0.3% 6.2 28.1
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
INE048G01026 75,487 exited — 57.1 —
INE591G01025 275,877 exited — 47.5 —
INE118H01025 121,510 exited — 44.3 —
INE758T01015 1,393,798 exited — 42.2 —
INE949L01017 399,519 exited — 41.8 —
INE280A01028 82,389 exited — 40.2 —
INE019A01038 277,095 exited — 35.2 —
INE262H01021 62,518 exited — 34.7 —

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.

How it compares in its category

Against the Sectoral / Thematic 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
Kotak Active Momentum Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund · this scheme — 7.6% 0.98 15.3% 0.12 -13.6%
Nippon India Taiwan Equity Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 58.1% 23.5% 0.49 32.3% 1.60 -44.8%
HDFC Defence Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 36.0% 26.3% 1.60 24.8% 1.19 -34.5%
HDFC Transportation and Logistics Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 24.1% 15.0% 1.05 16.6% 1.06 -23.5%
UTI - Healthcare Fund UTI Mutual Fund 23.0% 13.1% 0.66 15.2% 1.09 -27.1%
SBI HEALTHCARE OPPORTUNITIES FUND SBI Mutual Fund 23.5% 15.3% 0.62 15.9% 1.07 -30.5%
Franklin Asian Equity Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 21.9% 1.2% 0.52 15.4% 1.00 -40.2%
LIC MF Infrastructure Fund LIC Mutual Fund 22.5% 7.2% 1.08 18.1% 0.89 -39.6%
Mirae Asset Healthcare Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 21.8% 14.5% 0.66 15.5% 0.99 -20.0%

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 Sectoral / Thematic scheme is

At least 80% in one sector or theme.

The same concentration risk as any sector fund. Themes are usually launched after the theme has already run, which is why the average investor's return in these funds trails the funds' own published returns.

Who it suits. A small, deliberate satellite position — rarely a core holding.

How long money should stay. Through a full cycle.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Kotak Active Momentum Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹10.9580 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 Kotak Active Momentum 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 80% in one sector or theme. The same concentration risk as any sector fund. Themes are usually launched after the theme has already run, which is why the average investor's return in these funds trails the funds' own published returns.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically Through a full cycle. A small, deliberate satellite position — rarely a core holding.