Direct Plan · IDCW Option · Sectoral / Thematic · Scheme code 151749
NAV₹28.8550as on 30 Oct 2026
Fund houseHDFC Mutual Fund
CategorySectoral / Thematic
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW Option
History3.2 years
Returns (%)
1M
3M
6M
1Y
3Y
5Y
7Y
10Y
Launch
This scheme
5.89
9.96
24.59
37.06
39.25
—
—
—
42.68
Nifty 500 benchmark
0.87
4.31
2.15
5.20
12.49
11.41
—
—
15.49
Sectoral / Thematic category median
—
—
—
-5.63
13.04
10.23
—
13.74
—
Over a year annualised (CAGR), under a year absolute. Computed from AMFI's published
NAV history for this scheme.
Risk
Volatility
Sharpe
Sortino
Beta
Alpha
Max fall
R²
This scheme
31.1%
1.05
2.03
1.61
22.32%
-34.5%
62.37
Nifty 500 benchmark
15.2%
0.39
0.58
—
—
-37.3%
—
Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta, alpha and R² are regressed on the
36 months this scheme and its benchmark share.
Growth of ₹100 since launch
Drawdown from peak (%)
Every one-year period it has lived through
Windows
Worst
Median
Best
Periods that lost money
555
-1.5%
22.2%
146.3%
1%
Every one-year holding period in this scheme's history, not just the last one — the
spread a real investor would have met depending only on when they started.
How it behaves against its benchmark
Up capture
Down capture
Correlation
Tracking error
Information ratio
Treynor
204%
122%
0.79
21.2%
1.22
19.72
Up capture is how much of the benchmark's gain this scheme kept in the months the
benchmark rose; down capture, how much of its fall it took. Below 100 on the down side and above it
on the up side is the combination every fund is trying for and few reach.
Measured over the 36 months this scheme and
Nifty 500 share.
HDFC Defence Fund
Direct Plan · IDCW Option
Allocation
By asset
Equity
98.27%
Cash & Equivalents
1.73%
By market cap
Large Cap
43.82%
Mid Cap
25.03%
Small Cap
29.01%
Unclassified
0.25%
Concentration
Number of stocks
24
Top 5 stocks
57.11%
Top 10 stocks
79.27%
Top 20 stocks
97.38%
Lines in the filing
26
Largest holding
14.87%
Largest sector
Aerospace & Defense 46.11%
Effective stocks
11.9
Sectors held
9
Cash
1.73%
Effective stocks is what the concentration works out to: a fund holding
24 names but most of its money in a few
behaves like a fund of 12. Cash includes repo and TREPS, which
every fund parks money in overnight.
Sector split
Aerospace & Defense
46.11%
Auto Components
18.22%
Chemicals & Petrochemicals
13.05%
Agricultural, Commercial & Construction Vehicles
6.18%
Electrical Equipment
5.09%
Automobiles
4.67%
Industrial Manufacturing
4.08%
Cash & Equivalents
1.73%
Construction
0.65%
Industrial Products
0.22%
HDFC Defence Fund
Direct Plan · IDCW Option · holdings
Top 30 holdings
#
Company
Sector
Shares held
Value ₹ cr
% of fund
1
Bharat Electronics Ltd.
Aerospace & Defense
44,000,130
1,709
14.87%
2
Bharat Forge Ltd.
Auto Components
7,702,514
1,484
12.91%
3
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Aerospace & Defense
3,105,081
1,449
12.61%
4
Solar Industries India Ltd.
Chemicals & Petrochemicals
600,000
1,182
10.28%
5
Astra Microwave Products Ltd.
Aerospace & Defense
4,523,071
740
6.44%
6
BEML Limited
Agricultural, Commercial & Construction Vehicles
2,950,617
588
5.11%
7
MTAR Technologies Limited
Electrical Equipment
750,000
585
5.09%
8
Eicher Motors Ltd.
Automobiles
750,000
536
4.67%
9
Bosch Limited
Auto Components
100,000
471
4.10%
10
Bharat Dynamics Limited
Aerospace & Defense
3,300,902
366
3.19%
11
Cyient DLM Limited
Aerospace & Defense
4,000,000
366
3.18%
12
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd
Industrial Manufacturing
1,725,149
365
3.17%
13
Centum Electronics Ltd.
Aerospace & Defense
706,497
339
2.95%
14
Premier Explosives Ltd.
Chemicals & Petrochemicals
4,660,823
319
2.77%
15
TREPS - Tri-party Repo
Unclassified
—
268
2.33%
16
Data Patterns (India) Limited
Aerospace & Defense
529,949
227
1.98%
17
Sedemac Mechatronics Limited
Auto Components
397,424
139
1.21%
18
Tata Motors Limited
Agricultural, Commercial & Construction Vehicles
2,904,143
122
1.07%
19
IDEAFORGE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Aerospace & Defense
1,214,539
89
0.77%
20
Power Mech Projects Ltd.
Construction
299,920
75
0.65%
21
INDO-MIM Limited
Industrial Manufacturing
330,288
41
0.36%
22
Cochin Shipyard Ltd.
Industrial Manufacturing
300,000
39
0.34%
23
Diffusion Engineers Limited
Industrial Products
565,442
25
0.22%
24
JNK India Limited
Industrial Manufacturing
560,857
25
0.21%
25
AEQUS LIMITED
Aerospace & Defense
500,000
14
0.12%
HDFC Defence Fund
Direct Plan · IDCW Option · where the money sits
What the manager did last month
Between the filings of 30 Jun 2026 and 31 Jul 2026.
A position grows because the manager bought or because the price rose; only the share count separates them.
Bought
Sold
New positions
Sold out of
Price move of holdings
₹362 cr
₹105 cr
2
0
+0.17%
Stock
Shares traded
Shares
Price
Value ₹ cr
New position
Cochin Shipyard Ltd.
300,000
entered
—
42.7
INDO-MIM Limited
330,288
entered
—
25.6
Added to
Bharat Electronics Ltd.
2,500,130
+6.6%
-5.8%
97.0
IDEAFORGE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
896,226
+281.6%
+7.3%
78.4
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
125,000
+4.6%
+6.1%
58.1
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd
210,400
+16.3%
-4.6%
50.1
Tata Motors Limited
1,000,000
+90.9%
+3.3%
43.7
Bosch Limited
4,776
+6.4%
+3.0%
19.6
Bharat Forge Ltd.
66,532
+0.9%
+2.6%
14.6
Trimmed
AEQUS LIMITED
3,500,756
-87.5%
-2.3%
80.2
Cyient DLM Limited
353,116
-6.4%
+45.6%
23.7
Power Mech Projects Ltd.
4,025
-1.3%
-7.1%
1.0
Not equity
Previous filing
This filing
Change
Cash, repo and TREPS
₹0 cr
₹0 cr
+₹0 cr
The list above is stocks and fund units. Treasury bills, repo and money-market
lines roll over every month by design — they are not decisions, so they are totalled here rather
than listed as activity.
Not investment advice. InvestVerdict is not a SEBI-registered Investment
Adviser or Research Analyst. Every figure is computed from AMFI's published NAV history and the
portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI; none of it is a recommendation to buy, hold or sell. Past
returns do not predict future ones. Generated 30 Oct 2026.
