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Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund

Regular Plan IDCW Multi Cap Edelweiss Mutual Fund Code 152096 ISIN INF754K01RX8

Fund basics

Launched30 Oct 2023 2.8 years of history
CategoryMulti CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 152096
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on26 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

No CAGR is shown for an IDCW scheme, and that is deliberate. Its NAV falls by every payout it makes, so a return computed from NAV alone understates it by exactly the amount distributed — and AMFI's daily file carries no payout history to add back. A wrong number wearing the right label is worse than an honest gap. The Growth option of this same fund is the one to compare on returns.

Regular vs Direct — same portfolio, two prices

The same fund, the same manager, the same shares. The only difference is the distributor commission inside the Regular plan's expense ratio — charged every year, on the whole balance.

PlanNAV1y3y5y
Regular (this page) 15.6873
Direct 16.4122

The two NAVs are 4.4% apart today. They started life at the same ₹10 — the whole of that gap is what the commission has taken out of the Regular plan since launch.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 698 published NAVs between 30 Oct 2023 and 27 Aug 2026 — 2.8 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
Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund Regular 3.492.372.46 6.30 16.60
Nifty 500 benchmark 1.702.710.73 3.9512.5111.37 15.46
Multi Cap category median · 28 funds 8.9415.6314.21 14.31

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 Multi Cap — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 26 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund Regular 15.23 0.66 0.92 1.05 3.20 -20.75
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.17 0.35 0.47 -37.31

Risk measures use a risk-free rate of 6.5% and are stated so they can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be. Beta and alpha need an index, so they are blank for the benchmark row itself.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
15.2%11.0%0.660.92

Sharpe and Sortino use a risk-free rate of 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond. Both are stated so the figure can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-20.8%-2.3%
0%-8%-15%-23%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
45.1%5.4%-7.4%22%
Worst-7.4%Median5.4%Best45.1%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

27.9%20241.7%20251.9%2026
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

98.08%Equity
1.92%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

44.70%Large
24.70%Mid
28.68%Small
Large Cap 44.7%44.7%Mid Cap 24.7%24.7%Small Cap 28.7%28.7%Large Cap 44.7%Mid Cap 24.7%Small Cap 28.7%
Against AMFI's half-yearly ranking — companies 1–100 by market value are Large, 101–250 Mid, 251 and below Small. The rest is unclassified — debt, cash, foreign holdings, gold or fund units, which AMFI does not rank. This is what tells you whether a fund is living up to its category label or quietly drifting.

Concentration

Number of stocks106
Top 5 stocks15.50%
Top 10 stocks25.38%
Top 20 stocks40.49%
Largest single holding3.77%
Largest sectorBanks · 18.40%
Number of sectors36
Effective stocks72.0
Cash & equivalents1.92%

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 — 18.4%Finance — 7.6%Capital Markets — 4.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 4.5%Electrical Equipment — 4.3%Automobiles — 4.2%Healthcare Services — 3.9%IT - Software — 3.7%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 3.6%Other — 45.0%Banks18.4%Finance7.6%Capital Markets4.8%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…4.5%Electrical Equipment4.3%Automobiles4.2%Healthcare Services3.9%IT - Software3.7%Chemicals & Petrochemicals3.6%Other45.0%
Where the equity money sits, by industry. The biggest few sectors decide most of what this fund does in any given year — a fund heavy in one sector is making a bet, whether or not its name says so.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 25.4% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

HDFC Bank Ltd. 3.77%
ICICI Bank Ltd. 3.57%
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 3.25%
Radico Khaitan Ltd. 2.59%
NTPC Ltd. 2.32%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 2.15%
Karur Vysya Bank Ltd. 1.96%
Tata Steel Ltd. 1.95%
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Ltd. 1.95%
Navin Fluorine International Ltd. 1.87%
State Bank of India 1.70%
Clearing Corporation of India Ltd. 1.68%

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.

How it compares with its closest peers

The same category, the same plan, the same option — the only comparison that means anything. A Multi Cap Regular Plan IDCW scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund · this scheme 3.2% 1.05 15.2% 0.66 -20.8%
BANDHAN MULTI CAP FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 8.1% -1.1% 0.98 13.8% 0.12 -27.5%
BANK OF INDIA MULTI CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 18.7% 7.1% 1.01 15.0% 0.81 -20.6%
Bajaj Finserv Multi Cap Fund Bajaj Finserv Mutual Fund 5.7% 1.03 13.9% 0.66 -14.4%
DSP Multi Cap Fund DSP Mutual Fund -1.8% 1.06 15.5% -0.06 -26.0%
Franklin India Multi Cap Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 4.3% 1.05 14.9% -0.09 -19.2%
ICICI Prudential Multi Cap Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 8.0% -7.3% 0.99 21.1% 0.07 -69.5%
Invesco India Multicap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 14.3% 1.8% 1.01 16.6% 0.47 -55.0%
LIC MF Multi Cap Fund LIC Mutual Fund 18.1% 6.4% 1.04 14.1% 0.82 -19.8%

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 Multi Cap scheme is

At least 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory.

Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

Who it suits. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹15.6873 as on 26 Aug 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 Edelweiss Multi Cap 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 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory. Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.