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Samco ELSS Tax Saver Fund

Option Growth

Fund basics

Launched29 Dec 2022 3.7 years of history
CategoryELSS (Tax Saving)SEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 150838
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on25 Sep 2026source AMFI

Computed from 916 published NAVs between 29 Dec 2022 and 18 Sep 2026 — 3.7 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
Samco ELSS Tax Saver Fund Direct 2.024.6718.87 0.215.11— ——9.61
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
ELSS (Tax Saving) category median · 61 funds ——— 1.5912.2211.75 —13.77—

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 ELSS (Tax Saving) — 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
Samco ELSS Tax Saver Fund Direct 16.02 -0.09 -0.12 1.04 -3.51 -29.64
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 44 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
-3.51%1.0470%-3.25%94%105%9.96%-0.333.09

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
16.0%11.8%-0.09-0.12

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-29.6%—-11.2%
0%-11%-22%-33%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
38.9%0.5%-18.3%49%
Worst-18.3%Median0.5%Best38.9%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

35.8%202310.2%2024-11.4%20256.1%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. 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

99.89%Equity
0.11%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

7.96%Large
32.74%Mid
59.19%Small
Large Cap 8.0%8.0%Mid Cap 32.7%32.7%Small Cap 59.2%59.2%Large Cap 8.0%Mid Cap 32.7%Small Cap 59.2%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small.

Concentration

Number of stocks35
Top 5 stocks20.04%
Top 10 stocks36.39%
Top 20 stocks65.69%
Largest single holding4.34%
Largest sectorPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology · 15.37%
Number of sectors17
Effective stocks32.5
Cash & equivalents0.11%

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 — 15.4%Industrial Products — 14.3%Electrical Equipment — 11.7%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 9.1%Auto Components — 8.5%Banks — 6.5%Healthcare Services — 5.4%Automobiles — 3.6%Industrial Manufacturing — 3.5%Other — 22.0%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…15.4%Industrial Products14.3%Electrical Equipment11.7%Chemicals & Petrochemicals9.1%Auto Components8.5%Banks6.5%Healthcare Services5.4%Automobiles3.6%Industrial Manufacturing3.5%Other22.0%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 36.4% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

R R Kabel Limited 4.34%
Welspun Corp Limited 4.34%
Navin Fluorine International Limited 3.95%
The Federal Bank Limited 3.82%
Ather Energy Limited 3.59%
Syrma SGS Technology Limited 3.46%
Apar Industries Limited 3.36%
Neuland Laboratories Limited 3.21%
GE Vernova T&D India Limited 3.17%
Sai Life Sciences Limited 3.15%
Sona BLW Precision Forgings Limited 3.13%
Gland Pharma Limited 3.05%

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₹0.0 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1.0 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions18 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of17 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +9.71% 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
Ather Energy Limited 22,790 entered — 3.9 3.9
Neuland Laboratories Limited 1,521 entered — 3.5 3.5
Gland Pharma Limited 11,534 entered — 3.3 3.3
Vijaya Diagnostic Centre Limited 21,319 entered — 3.2 3.2
Acme Solar Holdings Ltd 79,581 entered — 3.2 3.2
Aurobindo Pharma Limited 18,458 entered — 3.2 3.2
Anand Rathi Wealth Limited 14,128 entered — 3.1 3.1
Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited 6,589 entered — 3.1 3.1
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 1
Laurus Labs Limited 5,334 -83.6% +5.4% 1.0 0.2
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Cummins India Limited 8,499 exited — 4.7 —
Karur Vysya Bank Limited 115,633 exited — 4.0 —
AU Small Finance Bank Limited 37,805 exited — 4.0 —
CCL Products (India) Limited 32,291 exited — 3.7 —
Aditya Birla Capital Limited 81,929 exited — 3.3 —
L&T Finance Limited 105,105 exited — 3.3 —
NMDC Limited 362,802 exited — 3.1 —
Craftsman Automation Limited 3,117 exited — 3.1 —

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.

How it compares in its category

Against the ELSS (Tax Saving) 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
Samco ELSS Tax Saver Fund Samco Mutual Fund · this scheme 5.1% -3.5% 1.04 16.0% -0.09 -29.6%
ITI ELSS Tax Saver Fund ITI Mutual Fund 15.7% 1.5% 1.04 17.9% 0.52 -38.5%
HSBC ELSS Tax saver Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 14.9% 5.8% 0.99 15.2% 0.55 -19.2%
WhiteOak Capital ELSS Tax Saver Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 15.2% 6.2% 0.94 13.0% 0.67 -16.4%
Baroda BNP Paribas ELSS Tax Saver Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 14.2% 3.4% 0.94 13.8% 0.56 -17.3%
NJ ELSS Tax Saver Fund NJ Mutual Fund 8.7% 0.7% 0.97 13.7% 0.16 -22.8%
Parag Parikh ELSS Tax Saver Fund PPFAS Mutual Fund 8.1% 4.8% 0.73 13.4% 0.12 -29.5%
Sundaram ELSS Tax Saver Fund Sundaram Mutual Fund 7.7% -0.9% 0.90 13.4% 0.09 -16.7%
NAVI ELSS TAX SAVER NIFTY50 INDEX FUND Navi Mutual Fund 6.0% -3.6% 0.87 12.5% -0.04 -15.5%

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 ELSS (Tax Saving) scheme is

At least 80% in equity, with every investment locked for three years.

The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

Who it suits. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.

How long money should stay. The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Samco ELSS Tax Saver Fund — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹13.9600 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 Samco ELSS Tax Saver 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 equity, with every investment locked for three years. The only mutual fund that cuts your tax bill — up to ₹1.5 lakh a year under Section 80C of the old regime. The three-year lock is per instalment, so a SIP started today frees up one instalment at a time.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically The 3-year lock is a floor, not a plan — treat it as 7 years. Anybody using the old tax regime who would be investing in equity anyway.