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Sundaram Multi Cap Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Multi Cap Growth Fund)

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Fund basics

Launched3 Jan 2022 4.9 years of history
CategoryMulti CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · GROWTH code 149667
BenchmarkNIFTY 500 Multicap 50:25:25 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on9 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 1,196 published NAVs between 3 Jan 2022 and 9 Nov 2026 — 4.8 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
Sundaram Multi Cap Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Multi Cap Growth Fund) Regular 4.06-2.873.97 -1.0211.59— ——9.82
NIFTY 500 Multicap 50:25:25 TRI benchmark -6.01-5.078.14 -1.4910.5710.78 17.0213.7115.91
Multi Cap category median · 27 funds ——— 4.6414.1011.14 —13.74—

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 9 Nov 2026. The category row is the median Regular plan in Multi 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 9 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Sundaram Multi Cap Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Multi Cap Growth Fund) Regular 16.02 0.32 0.44 0.95 -0.77 -19.86
NIFTY 500 Multicap 50:25:25 TRI benchmark 16.73 0.24 0.37 —— -41.73

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.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 36 months this fund and NIFTY 500 Multicap 50:25:25 TRI both have, using NSE's own Total Return Index for it. 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
-0.77%0.9595%-1.11%97%101%3.65%-0.304.22

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%11.5%0.320.44

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-19.9%12 months-4.1%
0%-7%-14%-22%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
45.5%9.2%-9.7%16%
Worst-9.7%Median9.2%Best45.5%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

31.1%202319.5%20244.6%2025-1.2%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 30 Sep 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

97.05%Equity
2.95%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

36.10%Large
27.54%Mid
32.53%Small
Large Cap 36.1%36.1%Mid Cap 27.5%27.5%Small Cap 32.5%32.5%Unclassified 0.9%Large Cap 36.1%Mid Cap 27.5%Small Cap 32.5%Unclassified 0.9%
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 stocks81
Top 5 stocks13.94%
Top 10 stocks25.51%
Top 20 stocks43.74%
Largest single holding2.98%
Largest sectorUnclassified · —
Number of sectors36
Effective stocks62.2
Cash & equivalents2.95%

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 — 14.4%Finance — 9.5%Electrical Equipment — 5.8%Auto Components — 4.5%Consumer Durables — 4.4%Petroleum Products — 4.1%Healthcare Services — 4.0%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 4.0%Financial Technology (Fintech) — 3.7%Other — 45.6%Banks14.4%Finance9.5%Electrical Equipment5.8%Auto Components4.5%Consumer Durables4.4%Petroleum Products4.1%Healthcare Services4.0%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…4.0%Financial Technology (Fin…3.7%Other45.6%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 26.0% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Larsen & Toubro Ltd 2.98%
ICICI Bank Ltd 2.83%
Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd 2.75%
One 97 Communications Ltd 2.73%
Reliance Industries Ltd 2.66%
TREPS 2.61%
Axis Bank Ltd 2.60%
Interglobe Aviation Ltd 2.50%
Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd 2.18%
Eternal Ltd (Previously Zomato Ltd) 2.17%
MTAR Technologies Ltd 2.12%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd 2.03%

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.

How it compares in its category

Against the Multi Cap 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
Sundaram Multi Cap Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Multi Cap Growth Fund) Sundaram Mutual Fund · this scheme 11.6% -0.8% 0.95 16.0% 0.32 -19.9%
Axis Multicap Fund Axis Mutual Fund 18.4% 5.5% 0.94 16.0% 0.74 -18.5%
WhiteOak Capital Multi Cap Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 16.8% 4.0% 0.91 15.2% 0.67 -17.2%
BANK OF INDIA MULTI CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 16.5% 3.5% 0.96 16.2% 0.62 -20.7%
Mahindra Manulife Multi Cap Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 16.3% 2.7% 0.98 16.8% 0.58 -34.5%
LIC MF Multi Cap Fund LIC Mutual Fund 16.3% 3.3% 1.04 17.9% 0.55 -19.8%
Kotak Multi Cap Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 15.7% 2.4% 1.02 17.4% 0.53 -21.4%
HSBC Multi Cap Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 15.7% 3.0% 1.03 17.3% 0.53 -20.3%
ITI Multi Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 15.3% 2.4% 1.02 17.4% 0.51 -38.9%

Alpha and beta are against NIFTY 500 Multicap 50:25:25 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 Sundaram Multi Cap Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Multi Cap Growth Fund) side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 32 Multi Cap funds.

What a Multi Cap scheme is

At least 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory.

Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

Who it suits. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Sundaram Multi Cap Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Multi Cap Growth Fund) — Regular Plan — GROWTH?

₹385.7869 as on 9 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 Sundaram Multi Cap Fund (Formerly Known as Principal Multi Cap Growth 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 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 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory. Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.