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Axis Nifty India Defence Index Fund

Direct Plan · Growth Option · Index Funds · Scheme code 154326

NAV₹9.7757as on 27 Oct 2026
Fund houseAxis Mutual Fund
CategoryIndex Funds
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option
History0.3 years

Returns (%)

 1M3M6M1Y3Y5Y7Y10YLaunch
This scheme 5.817.13— ——— ———
Nifty 100
benchmark		 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 ——12.79
Index Funds
category median		 ——— 0.397.466.40 —10.97—

Over a year annualised (CAGR), under a year absolute. Computed from AMFI's published NAV history for this scheme.

Risk

 VolatilitySharpeSortinoBetaAlphaMax fallR²
This scheme — — — — — -6.5% —
Nifty 100
benchmark		 14.4%0.28 0.40—— -37.0%—

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta, alpha and R² are regressed on the — months this scheme and its benchmark share.

Growth of ₹100 since launch

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Drawdown from peak (%)

0%-2%-5%-7%

Every one-year period it has lived through

WindowsWorstMedianBestPeriods that lost money
0 — — — —

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.

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Axis Nifty India Defence Index Fund

Direct Plan · Growth Option

Allocation

By asset

Equity99.06%
Cash & Equivalents0.92%

By market cap

Large Cap51.66%
Mid Cap23.00%
Small Cap24.40%

Concentration

Number of stocks22
Top 5 stocks69.18%
Top 10 stocks85.55%
Top 20 stocks98.60%
Lines in the filing24
Largest holding20.01%
Largest sectorAerospace & Defense 59.24%
Effective stocks8.3
Sectors held6
Cash0.92%

Effective stocks is what the concentration works out to: a fund holding 22 names but most of its money in a few behaves like a fund of 8. Cash includes repo and TREPS, which every fund parks money in overnight.

Sector split

Aerospace & Defense — 59.2%Auto Components — 13.3%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 11.9%Industrial Manufacturing — 8.5%Electrical Equipment — 4.2%Other — 2.8%Aerospace & Defense59.2%Auto Components13.3%Chemicals & Petrochemicals11.9%Industrial Manufacturing8.5%Electrical Equipment4.2%Other2.8%
Aerospace & Defense59.24%
Auto Components13.31%
Chemicals & Petrochemicals11.93%
Industrial Manufacturing8.48%
Electrical Equipment4.21%
Agricultural, Commercial & Construction Vehicles1.89%
Cash & Equivalents0.92%
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Axis Nifty India Defence Index Fund

Direct Plan · Growth Option · holdings

Top 30 holdings

#CompanySectorShares held Value
₹ cr		% of fund
1 Bharat Electronics Limited Aerospace & Defense 1,894,297 74 20.01%
2 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Aerospace & Defense 155,313 73 19.72%
3 Bharat Forge Limited Auto Components 254,050 49 13.31%
4 Solar Industries India Limited Chemicals & Petrochemicals 22,268 44 11.93%
5 MTAR Technologies Limited Electrical Equipment 19,852 15 4.21%
6 Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited Industrial Manufacturing 69,452 15 3.99%
7 Astra Microwave Products Limited Aerospace & Defense 77,367 13 3.44%
8 Data Patterns (India) Limited Aerospace & Defense 27,763 12 3.24%
9 Cochin Shipyard Limited Industrial Manufacturing 88,422 12 3.16%
10 Bharat Dynamics Limited Aerospace & Defense 84,253 9 2.54%
11 Clearing Corporation of India Ltd Unclassified — 8 2.04%
12 BEML Limited Agricultural, Commercial & Construction Vehicles 34,956 7 1.89%
13 Zen Technologies Limited Aerospace & Defense 42,164 7 1.84%
14 Apollo Micro Systems Limited Aerospace & Defense 149,643 6 1.64%
15 Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited Aerospace & Defense 26,778 6 1.59%
16 Dynamatic Technologies Limited Industrial Manufacturing 3,588 5 1.33%
17 Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited Aerospace & Defense 32,465 4 1.16%
18 Aequs Limited Aerospace & Defense 150,906 4 1.15%
19 AXISCADES Technologies Limited Aerospace & Defense 16,363 4 0.99%
20 Centum Electronics Limited Aerospace & Defense 7,095 3 0.93%
21 Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited Aerospace & Defense 44,651 2 0.53%
22 Unimech Aerospace and Manufacturing Limited Aerospace & Defense 8,073 1 0.38%
23 Sigma Advanced Systems Limited Aerospace & Defense 2,778 0 0.08%
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Axis Nifty India Defence Index Fund

Direct Plan · Growth Option · where the money sits

What the manager did last month

Between the filings of 31 May 2026 and 31 Jul 2026. A position grows because the manager bought or because the price rose; only the share count separates them.

BoughtSoldNew positionsSold out ofPrice move of holdings
₹44 cr ₹0 cr 0 0 +3.57%
StockShares tradedShares PriceValue
₹ cr
Added to
Bharat Electronics Limited 478,484 +47.1% -5.6% 18.6
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited 26,228 +22.8% +8.0% 12.2
Bharat Forge Limited 13,893 +7.1% +12.4% 3.1
Solar Industries India Limited 1,270 +7.1% +0.8% 2.3
Apollo Micro Systems Limited 29,405 +30.1% -4.7% 1.2
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited 3,962 +7.1% -3.0% 0.9
Data Patterns (India) Limited 1,972 +9.1% +5.9% 0.8
Astra Microwave Products Limited 4,417 +7.1% +32.8% 0.8
Not equityPrevious filingThis filingChange
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 29 Oct 2026.