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Aditya Birla Sun Life Dividend Yield Fund

Option GROWTH IDCW

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Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.6 years of history
CategoryDividend YieldSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 101737
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on29 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 5,025 published NAVs between 3 Apr 2006 and 28 Aug 2026 — 20.4 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
Aditya Birla Sun Life Dividend Yield Fund Regular 2.291.13-1.93 1.606.756.93 10.845.343.36
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49

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 Regular plan in Dividend Yield — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 29 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Aditya Birla Sun Life Dividend Yield Fund Regular 16.06 0.02 0.02 0.94 -5.55 -53.14
Nifty 500 benchmark 15.22 0.39 0.58 —— -37.31

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
16.1%11.3%0.020.02

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-53.1%22 months-17.2%
0%-19%-38%-58%2008201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
80.6%1.4%-45.2%47%
Worst-45.2%Median1.4%Best80.6%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

27.6%2021-0.9%202231.1%202310.1%2024-3.9%2025-2.6%2026InvestVerdict
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.

If you had run a SIP

₹10,000 every month for five years — ₹600,000 invested in all — would be worth ₹691,589 today, an XIRR of 5.63% a year.

XIRR, not CAGR. A SIP's money arrives over sixty months, so most of it has been invested for far less than five years — which is why this figure normally sits below the five-year CAGR above in a rising market, and above it in a falling one. It is the return the investor got, not the return the fund got.

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

95.41%Equity
3.91%Foreign Securities
0.68%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

49.99%Large
17.85%Mid
27.36%Small
Large Cap 50.0%50.0%Mid Cap 17.9%17.9%Small Cap 27.4%27.4%Unclassified 3.6%Large Cap 50.0%Mid Cap 17.9%Small Cap 27.4%Unclassified 3.6%
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 stocks82
Top 5 stocks22.36%
Top 10 stocks36.66%
Top 20 stocks57.70%
Largest single holding5.44%
Largest sectorFinance · 12.24%
Number of sectors32
Effective stocks44.5
Cash & equivalents0.68%

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

Finance — 12.2%Banks — 10.2%IT - Software — 9.9%Power — 7.0%Food Products — 5.7%Industrial Products — 5.5%Petroleum Products — 4.9%Non - Ferrous Metals — 4.9%Retailing — 4.7%Other — 35.1%Finance12.2%Banks10.2%IT - Software9.9%Power7.0%Food Products5.7%Industrial Products5.5%Petroleum Products4.9%Non - Ferrous Metals4.9%Retailing4.7%Other35.1%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 36.7% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Britannia Industries Ltd. 5.44%
State Bank of India 4.66%
ICICI Bank Ltd. 4.40%
Shriram Finance Ltd. 3.94%
Microsoft Corporation 3.91%
Eternal Ltd. 3.24%
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 3.08%
LTM Ltd. 2.93%
Sagility Ltd. 2.63%
Acme Solar Holdings Ltd. 2.43%
JSW Energy Ltd. 2.36%
Bharti Hexacom Ltd. 2.36%

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 30 Jun 2026 and 31 Jul 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₹202 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹103 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions52 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of33 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +4.25% 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
ICICI Bank Ltd. 460,000 entered — 66.0 66.0
LTM Ltd. 100,000 entered — 43.6 43.6
Eternal Ltd. 1,400,000 entered — 42.3 42.3
Adani Energy Solutions Ltd. 227,739 entered — 37.5 37.5
Astral Ltd. 193,677 entered — 28.1 28.1
Acme Solar Holdings Ltd. 763,968 entered — 27.7 27.7
Hyundai Motor India Ltd. 108,292 entered — 23.6 23.6
Tata Motors Ltd. 500,000 entered — 21.8 21.8
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Britannia Industries Ltd. 93,696 +151.4% +5.3% 50.8 84.3
Sagility Ltd. 6,537,095 +326.9% +10.2% 28.4 37.1
Microsoft Corporation 6,000 +120.0% +25.6% 26.6 48.8
Bharti Hexacom Ltd. 158,000 +222.7% +8.4% 25.4 36.8
Shriram Finance Ltd. 200,000 +56.4% +0.4% 20.9 58.1
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 500,000 +227.3% -1.2% 19.5 28.1
Hindalco Industries Ltd. 75,000 +50.0% +1.9% 7.3 21.9
Hexaware Technologies Ltd. 120,000 +22.7% +9.1% 6.7 36.5
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 4
Bank of Maharashtra 6,085,898 -84.9% -13.2% 48.3 8.6
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 181,062 -64.4% -0.8% 38.1 21.0
Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. 219,481 -68.7% +5.4% 12.7 5.8
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 3,686 -14.5% +18.6% 4.3 25.1
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
NTPC Limited 1,932,249 exited — 68.9 —
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited 226,640 exited — 64.3 —
ITC Limited 1,963,169 exited — 56.3 —
Infosys Limited 462,960 exited — 46.3 —
Axis Bank Limited 324,148 exited — 43.6 —
Bharat Electronics Limited 849,949 exited — 35.0 —
Tech Mahindra Limited 211,828 exited — 29.8 —
CMS Info Systems Limited 1,008,473 exited — 28.3 —

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 Dividend Yield 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
Aditya Birla Sun Life Dividend Yield Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund · this scheme 6.7% -5.6% 0.94 16.1% 0.02 -53.1%
Franklin India Dividend Yield Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 3.5% -8.1% 0.86 15.8% -0.19 -61.4%
ICICI Prudential Dividend Yield Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 4.0% -8.3% 0.96 18.1% -0.14 -57.3%
Kotak Dividend Yield Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund — — — — — -12.4%
LIC MF Dividend Yield Fund LIC Mutual Fund 19.2% 5.8% 1.14 18.1% 0.70 -20.9%
SBI Dividend Yield Fund SBI Mutual Fund 12.3% 0.5% 0.88 13.9% 0.42 -18.3%
UTI - Dividend Yield Fund UTI Mutual Fund 11.3% -0.7% 0.92 15.0% 0.32 -56.2%

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 Dividend Yield scheme is

At least 65% in equity, predominantly in high dividend-yielding stocks.

Companies that pay out rather than reinvest — usually mature, cash-generating businesses. Steadier than the market, and structurally lighter on the fast-growing names that drive bull runs.

Who it suits. Investors who prefer cash-generating businesses and a gentler ride.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Aditya Birla Sun Life Dividend Yield Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹23.3600 as on 29 Oct 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 Aditya Birla Sun Life Dividend Yield 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 IDCW option mean?

An IDCW option pays part of the fund's gains out to you, and the NAV falls by exactly what it pays. It is not extra return — it is your own money returned, taxed at your slab rate. That also means a return computed from NAV alone understates an IDCW scheme, which is why no CAGR is shown here for it.

What kind of scheme is this?

At least 65% in equity, predominantly in high dividend-yielding stocks. Companies that pay out rather than reinvest — usually mature, cash-generating businesses. Steadier than the market, and structurally lighter on the fast-growing names that drive bull runs.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Investors who prefer cash-generating businesses and a gentler ride.