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Zerodha CASE Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index Fund

Fund basics

Launched10 Nov 2023 3.0 years of history
CategoryIndex FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 152156
BenchmarkNIFTY 100 TRI used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on6 Nov 2026source AMFI

Computed from 736 published NAVs between 10 Nov 2023 and 6 Nov 2026 — 3.0 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
Zerodha CASE Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index Fund Direct 5.74-1.761.12 1.52—— ——12.94
NIFTY 100 TRI benchmark -6.50-6.491.68 -6.827.476.95 11.9911.5813.28
Index Funds category median · 186 funds ——— 3.908.008.75 —12.24—

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 6 Nov 2026. The category row is the median Direct plan in Index Funds — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 6 Nov 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Zerodha CASE Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index Fund Direct 16.13 0.40 0.58 1.06 2.53 -18.75
NIFTY 100 TRI benchmark 14.83 0.07 0.09 —— -37.92

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 35 months this fund and NIFTY 100 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
2.53%1.0695%2.56%113%102%3.79%0.672.41

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
16.1%11.2%0.400.58

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-18.7%9 months-2.2%
0%-7%-14%-21%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
33.3%5.6%-7.7%15%
Worst-7.7%Median5.6%Best33.3%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

18.5%20248.4%2025-0.4%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

99.61%Equity
0.47%REITs / InvITs

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

52.00%Large
46.81%Mid
1.27%Small
Large Cap 52.0%52.0%Mid Cap 46.8%46.8%Small Cap 1.3%Large Cap 52.0%Mid Cap 46.8%Small Cap 1.3%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small.

Concentration

Number of stocks250
Top 5 stocks14.76%
Top 10 stocks21.26%
Top 20 stocks30.42%
Largest single holding4.22%
Largest sectorBanks · 16.94%
Number of sectors45
Effective stocks108.2
Cash & equivalents-0.08%

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 — 16.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 6.7%Finance — 6.5%IT - Software — 5.6%Retailing — 4.3%Automobiles — 4.0%Petroleum Products — 3.9%Electrical Equipment — 3.7%Consumer Durables — 3.3%Other — 45.0%Banks16.9%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…6.7%Finance6.5%IT - Software5.6%Retailing4.3%Automobiles4.0%Petroleum Products3.9%Electrical Equipment3.7%Consumer Durables3.3%Other45.0%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 21.4% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

HDFC Bank Limited 4.22%
ICICI Bank Limited 3.68%
Reliance Industries Limited 3.08%
Bharti Airtel Limited 2.07%
Larsen & Toubro Limited 1.71%
State Bank of India 1.54%
Axis Bank Limited 1.37%
Infosys Limited 1.36%
Clearing Corporation of India Limited 1.22%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited 1.19%
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited 1.04%
Bajaj Finance Limited 1.02%

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 Aug 2026 and 30 Sep 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₹76.8 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹32.2 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions9 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of9 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held -6.05% 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
Embassy Office Parks REIT 169,276 entered — 7.4 7.4
Piramal Finance Limited 25,219 entered — 5.2 5.2
Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited 103,298 entered — 4.3 4.3
Meesho Limited 177,067 entered — 4.0 4.0
Aster DM Healthcare Limited 51,629 entered — 3.6 3.6
Hindustan Copper Limited 74,619 entered — 3.5 3.5
Narayana Hrudayalaya Limited 13,343 entered — 2.4 2.4
Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited 12,030 entered — 0.9 0.9
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
The Indian Hotels Company Limited 118,036 +229.6% -1.3% 8.6 12.4
United Spirits Limited 39,715 +229.7% -9.1% 5.4 7.7
Lenskart Solutions Limited 77,254 +120.0% +3.4% 5.3 9.7
REC Limited 167,874 +229.6% -7.5% 5.0 7.2
Lodha Developers Limited 41,086 +253.0% -5.3% 4.7 6.5
Shree Cement Limited 1,798 +229.9% -3.7% 4.0 5.8
HDFC Bank Limited 37,637 +4.2% 0.0% 2.7 66.2
Billionbrains Garage Ventures Ltd. 128,622 +87.0% -4.2% 2.4 5.1
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 6
BSE Ltd 53,560 -68.3% -5.8% 16.6 7.7
Polycab India Limited 7,010 -68.3% -15.0% 5.6 2.6
Hitachi Energy India Limited 1,667 -68.3% -9.3% 5.1 2.4
Vodafone Idea Limited 3,608,472 -68.3% -9.6% 4.7 2.2
GMR Airports Limited 13,086 -1.9% +1.6% 0.1 6.4
Biocon Limited 2,377 -1.7% -10.1% 0.1 5.0
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Apollo Tyres Limited 61,973 exited — 2.7 —
Tata Elxsi Limited 6,610 exited — 2.4 —
Adani Wilmar Limited 106,628 exited — 2.1 —
KPIT Technologies Limited 31,489 exited — 1.8 —
3M India Limited 542 exited — 1.8 —
Honeywell Automation India Limited 422 exited — 1.5 —
ACC Limited 11,514 exited — 1.5 —
SJVN LIMITED 137,338 exited — 0.9 —

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 Index Funds 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
Zerodha CASE Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index Fund Zerodha CASE Mutual Fund · this scheme — 2.5% 1.06 16.1% 0.40 -18.7%
UTI Silver Exchange Traded Fund UTI Mutual Fund 34.7% 32.2% 0.07 44.4% 0.64 -52.9%
UTI - Gold Exchange Traded Fund UTI Mutual Fund 31.3% 22.3% 0.09 20.9% 1.19 -29.8%
ICICI Prudential NASDAQ 100 Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 25.9% 22.8% 0.29 18.4% 1.06 -30.0%
Motilal Oswal S&P 500 Index Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund 24.4% 18.9% 0.25 12.9% 1.39 -19.9%
ICICI Prudential Nifty Pharma Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 22.9% 13.7% 0.63 14.9% 1.10 -16.6%
Edelweiss MSCI India Domestic & World Healthcare 45 Index Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 21.9% 12.7% 0.50 11.1% 1.38 -16.3%
UTI Nifty 500 Value 50 Index Fund UTI Mutual Fund 20.2% 10.1% 1.16 19.5% 0.70 -22.6%
ICICI Prudential Nifty Auto Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 20.3% 8.5% 1.21 20.7% 0.67 -28.3%

Alpha and beta are against NIFTY 100 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 Zerodha CASE Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index Fund side by side

Returns, risk ratios, portfolio overlap, sectors and market-cap split against each of the other 5 Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index Funds & ETFs funds.

What a Index Funds scheme is

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions.

No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

Who it suits. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Zerodha CASE Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹14.4027 as on 6 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 Zerodha CASE Nifty LargeMidcap 250 Index 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?

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions. No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.