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Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund

Option Growth IDCW
Category Small Cap →
All plans and options of Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund
Scheme (as filed with AMFI)PlanOptionNAVAMFI code
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — GrowthDirectGrowth ₹24.0065 13 Nov 2026 150915
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — IDCWDirectIDCW ₹23.0608 13 Nov 2026 150913
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — GrowthRegularGrowth ₹22.5993 13 Nov 2026 150912
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCWRegularIDCW ₹21.6620 13 Nov 2026 150914

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

Launched14 Dec 2022 3.9 years of history
CategorySmall CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW code 150913
BenchmarkNIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on13 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 962 published NAVs between 14 Dec 2022 and 13 Nov 2026 — 3.9 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
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund Direct 3.092.2915.38 11.5117.10— ——23.72
NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI benchmark -4.17-1.9119.92 4.8613.5114.17 22.0714.5017.30
Small Cap category median · 26 funds ——— 8.0215.3213.70 —17.59—

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 13 Nov 2026. The category row is the median Direct plan in Small 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 13 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund Direct 20.62 0.51 0.80 0.92 2.40 -26.00
NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI benchmark 21.90 0.32 0.52 —— -59.78

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.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
20.6%13.3%0.510.80

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-26.0%17 months-2.1%
0%-10%-19%-29%20242026
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
75.2%9.9%-10.2%19%
Worst-10.2%Median9.9%Best75.2%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

60.0%202330.0%2024-1.3%202513.1%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.

What it actually holds

The real portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI, as on 31 Oct 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

97.80%Equity
2.59%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

13.41%Large
19.93%Mid
63.85%Small
Large Cap 13.4%13.4%Mid Cap 19.9%19.9%Small Cap 63.9%63.9%Unclassified 0.6%Large Cap 13.4%Mid Cap 19.9%Small Cap 63.9%Unclassified 0.6%
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 stocks84
Top 5 stocks16.64%
Top 10 stocks27.93%
Top 20 stocks45.68%
Largest single holding4.96%
Largest sectorPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology · 16.27%
Number of sectors29
Effective stocks59.5
Cash & equivalents0.00%

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

Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 16.3%Industrial Products — 14.1%Auto Components — 8.1%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 7.7%Textiles & Apparels — 4.9%Capital Markets — 4.7%Banks — 4.7%Consumer Durables — 4.4%Finance — 4.0%Other — 31.6%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…16.3%Industrial Products14.1%Auto Components8.1%Chemicals & Petrochemicals7.7%Textiles & Apparels4.9%Capital Markets4.7%Banks4.7%Consumer Durables4.4%Finance4.0%Other31.6%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 27.9% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Divi's Laboratories Limited 4.96%
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited 3.40%
Garware Hi-Tech Films Limited 3.00%
Jindal Saw Ltd 2.73%
Oil India Limited 2.55%
Voltamp Transformers Limited 2.52%
Neuland Laboratories Limited 2.32%
Arvind Limited 2.23%
Supreme Petrochem Limited 2.18%
Ather Energy Limited 2.04%
Acutaas Chemicals Limited 1.99%
Usha Martin Limited 1.93%

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 30 Sep 2026 and 31 Oct 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₹94.2 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹183 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions4 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of5 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -3.84% 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 4
Tech Mahindra Limited 420,000 entered — 75.2 75.2
Angel One Limited 2,442,917 entered — 69.0 69.0
PNB Housing Finance Limited 470,639 entered — 49.9 49.9
Tatva Chintan Pharma Chem Limited 25,677 entered — 4.2 4.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
JSW Energy Limited 720,000 +190.8% +1.1% 36.0 54.9
Mold-Tek Packaging Limited 774,432 +100.0% -58.7% 21.1 42.3
GE Vernova T&D India Limited 24,000 +22.2% -4.3% 9.7 53.1
Manappuram Finance Limited 225,000 +10.0% -8.5% 6.5 71.9
Acutaas Chemicals Limited 14,459 +6.0% +22.1% 5.8 103
Navin Fluorine International Limited 5,708 +26.9% +5.3% 5.0 23.3
Lumax Auto Technologies Limited 22,022 +10.7% -2.6% 4.5 46.0
Kajaria Ceramics Limited 30,000 +8.3% -10.2% 3.3 43.6
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited 198,730 -26.5% -3.4% 63.4 176
SPR Auto Technologies Ltd 92,451 -49.0% -6.0% 40.4 42.1
DCB Bank Limited 1,942,349 -59.0% -5.4% 37.4 26.0
Stove Kraft Limited 183,597 -31.1% -0.2% 14.6 32.3
Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Ltd 602,421 -57.8% -12.2% 10.9 8.0
Oswal Pumps Limited 419,131 -100.0% -25.0% 8.4 0.0
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited 669,521 -4.7% -21.4% 3.6 72.5
Fedbank Financial Services Ltd 210,601 -21.6% -4.8% 3.0 11.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 5
Adani Green Energy Limited 380,000 exited — 48.6 —
Inox Green Energy Services Limited 1,199,193 exited — 19.3 —
Globus Spirits Limited 228,956 exited — 18.0 —
Bank of Maharashtra 2,025,872 exited — 16.1 —
Gokaldas Exports Limited 102,846 exited — 7.1 —

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 Small Cap 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
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund · this scheme 17.1% 2.4% 0.92 20.6% 0.51 -26.0%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Small Cap Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 7.6% -6.2% 0.91 21.6% 0.05 -57.4%
BANDHAN Small Cap Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 14.2% 0.0% 0.95 22.4% 0.34 -26.5%
BANK OF INDIA SMALL CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 18.9% 4.3% 0.96 22.2% 0.56 -32.4%
Bajaj Finserv Small Cap Fund Bajaj Finserv Mutual Fund — 4.6% 1.09 22.7% 0.11 -16.2%
DSP Small Cap Fund DSP Mutual Fund 6.5% -6.7% 1.02 23.9% 0.00 -60.0%
Edelweiss Small Cap Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 14.0% 0.2% 0.83 18.5% 0.41 -37.1%
Franklin India Small Cap Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund -0.4% -13.5% 1.00 23.8% -0.29 -60.0%
Helios Small Cap Fund Helios Mutual Fund — — — 25.1% 0.43 -16.9%

Alpha and beta are against NIFTY Smallcap 250 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 Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 36 Small Cap funds.

What a Small Cap scheme is

At least 65% in companies ranked 251st and below.

The highest return and the highest pain in Indian equity. These companies are thinly traded, so a fund that grows too large struggles to buy and sell without moving the price — which is why good small-cap funds close to new money.

Who it suits. Only money that will not be needed for a decade, and only alongside steadier funds.

How long money should stay. 10 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW?

₹23.0608 as on 13 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 Mahindra Manulife Small 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. 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 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 65% in companies ranked 251st and below. The highest return and the highest pain in Indian equity. These companies are thinly traded, so a fund that grows too large struggles to buy and sell without moving the price — which is why good small-cap funds close to new money.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 10 years or more. Only money that will not be needed for a decade, and only alongside steadier funds.