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Axis Value Fund

Fund basics

Launched28 Sep 2021 5.1 years of history
CategoryValue / ContraSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 149166
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 1,221 published NAVs between 28 Sep 2021 and 28 Aug 2026 — 4.9 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
Axis Value Fund Direct 3.948.847.19 14.8820.01— ——17.32
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
Value / Contra category median · 25 funds ——— -7.9011.1910.97 —13.62—

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 Direct plan in Value / Contra — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 27 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Axis Value Fund Direct 14.99 0.90 1.39 0.96 7.66 -20.20
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.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 36 months this fund and Nifty 500 (via Motilal Oswal Nifty 500 Index Fund) both have. 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
7.66%0.9695%7.41%117%86%3.54%2.0913.88

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
15.0%9.7%0.901.39

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-20.2%5 monthsAt a high
0%-7%-14%-21%202220242026
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
56.6%14.0%-6.1%5%
Worst-6.1%Median14.0%Best56.6%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

0.5%202242.1%202329.7%20246.4%20256.9%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.

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

92.98%Equity
7.02%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

57.14%Large
15.25%Mid
19.54%Small
Large Cap 57.1%57.1%Mid Cap 15.3%15.3%Small Cap 19.5%19.5%Unclassified 1.1%Large Cap 57.1%Mid Cap 15.3%Small Cap 19.5%Unclassified 1.1%
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 stocks86
Top 5 stocks18.00%
Top 10 stocks29.13%
Top 20 stocks46.46%
Largest single holding5.28%
Largest sectorBanks · 21.40%
Number of sectors29
Effective stocks60.0
Cash & equivalents7.02%

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 — 21.4%Electrical Equipment — 7.1%Finance — 7.1%Cash & Equivalents — 7.0%Auto Components — 6.6%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 5.6%Automobiles — 5.5%IT - Software — 4.7%Healthcare Services — 4.3%Other — 30.7%Banks21.4%Electrical Equipment7.1%Finance7.1%Cash & Equivalents7.0%Auto Components6.6%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…5.6%Automobiles5.5%IT - Software4.7%Healthcare Services4.3%Other30.7%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 33.9% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Clearing Corporation of India Ltd 6.85%
ICICI Bank Limited 5.28%
HDFC Bank Limited 4.54%
Reliance Industries Limited 3.22%
Welspun Corp Limited 2.53%
Shriram Finance Limited 2.43%
Bharti Airtel Limited 2.41%
Sona BLW Precision Forgings Limited 2.29%
NTPC Limited 2.20%
State Bank of India 2.19%
Larsen & Toubro Limited 2.04%
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 2.00%

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 May 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₹173 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹59.2 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions7 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of11 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +9.13% 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 7
Cyient Dlm Ltd 147,775 entered — 9.9 9.9
Swiggy Limited 337,979 entered — 9.6 9.6
PG Electroplast Limited 152,726 entered — 9.4 9.4
Gland Pharma Limited 34,677 entered — 8.7 8.7
HCL Technologies Limited 63,296 entered — 8.5 8.5
InterGlobe Aviation Limited 15,618 entered — 8.1 8.1
Piramal Pharma Limited 355,488 entered — 7.0 7.0
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
HDFC Bank Limited 285,331 +32.0% +0.5% 21.4 88.1
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited 40,238 +138.7% +16.1% 20.6 35.5
Bajaj Finance Limited 165,084 +192.0% +25.7% 18.8 28.7
TVS Motor Company Limited 21,212 +87.6% +28.5% 9.2 19.6
Axis Bank Limited 73,083 +54.6% -4.4% 9.0 25.4
TD Power Systems Limited 73,341 +239.8% -14.2% 8.3 11.8
Eternal Limited 254,573 +41.7% +20.7% 7.7 26.2
Dixon Technologies (India) Limited 5,389 +543.3% +21.9% 7.6 9.0
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Varun Beverages Limited 315,782 -66.1% -16.2% 14.0 7.2
Apar Industries Limited 4,252 -21.5% +9.4% 6.1 22.3
IndusInd Bank Limited 51,196 -24.5% +10.7% 5.2 16.0
Tata Consultancy Services Limited 21,764 -41.6% +4.7% 5.2 7.2
Laurus Labs Limited 20,373 -21.8% +33.4% 3.7 13.3
The Phoenix Mills Limited 18,310 -26.7% +6.9% 3.5 9.5
India Shelter Finance Corporation Limited 43,774 -44.5% -4.9% 3.2 4.0
ITC Limited 113,180 -46.3% -2.1% 3.2 3.7
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited 65,165 exited — 14.1 —
Bandhan Bank Limited 391,449 exited — 8.2 —
Vedanta Limited 223,464 exited — 7.9 —
Triveni Turbine Limited 102,798 exited — 7.6 —
Blue Star Limited 41,824 exited — 6.7 —
Brigade Enterprises Limited 56,934 exited — 3.7 —
Malco Energy Limited 223,464 exited — 2.7 —
Vedanta Iron And Steel Limited 223,464 exited — 2.7 —

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 Value / Contra 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
Axis Value Fund Axis Mutual Fund · this scheme 20.0% 7.7% 0.96 15.0% 0.90 -20.2%
Quant Value Fund quant Mutual Fund 23.3% 9.5% 1.21 21.5% 0.78 -24.0%
LIC MF Value Fund LIC Mutual Fund 18.5% 5.2% 1.11 18.6% 0.64 -25.2%
DSP Value Fund DSP Mutual Fund 17.9% 7.2% 0.64 11.0% 1.05 -16.5%
HSBC Value Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 18.4% 5.3% 1.02 16.2% 0.73 -19.6%
HDFC Value Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 18.0% 5.5% 1.00 15.4% 0.75 -43.9%
Invesco India Contra Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 17.0% 4.3% 1.02 15.9% 0.66 -36.5%
Kotak Contra Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 17.4% 5.0% 1.00 15.6% 0.70 -37.9%
Nippon India Value Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 16.1% 3.4% 1.02 15.9% 0.60 -38.6%

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 Value / Contra scheme is

At least 65% in equity, following a value or contrarian strategy.

Buying what the market dislikes. These funds can lag for years — sometimes many years — and then make it back quickly. Judging one over three years usually judges the market's mood rather than the manager.

Who it suits. Patient investors who understand that being early looks identical to being wrong.

How long money should stay. 7 to 10 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Axis Value Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹20.4700 as on 27 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 Axis Value 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 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 65% in equity, following a value or contrarian strategy. Buying what the market dislikes. These funds can lag for years — sometimes many years — and then make it back quickly. Judging one over three years usually judges the market's mood rather than the manager.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 to 10 years. Patient investors who understand that being early looks identical to being wrong.