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Franklin India Mid Cap Fund

Option Growth IDCW
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Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.6 years of history
CategoryMid CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 100472
BenchmarkNifty Midcap 150 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on28 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 5,021 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
Franklin India Mid Cap Fund Regular 0.98-3.23-3.67 -3.617.074.86 8.173.911.56
Nifty Midcap 150 benchmark 1.724.387.84 13.1317.9318.11 ——22.88
Mid Cap category median · 33 funds ——— -4.4514.0211.51 —14.01—

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 Mid 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 28 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Franklin India Mid Cap Fund Regular 17.05 0.03 0.05 0.85 -9.27 -73.97
Nifty Midcap 150 benchmark 17.94 0.64 0.98 —— -37.19

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
17.0%12.3%0.030.05

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-74.0%177 months-16.6%
0%-27%-54%-82%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
118.4%0.9%-68.5%48%
Worst-68.5%Median0.9%Best118.4%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

21.7%2021-7.6%202225.7%202321.7%2024-6.7%2025-7.5%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 ₹665,225 today, an XIRR of 4.08% 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

98.05%Equity
1.74%Cash & Equivalents
0.20%Debt

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

10.03%Large
66.45%Mid
18.12%Small
Large Cap 10.0%10.0%Mid Cap 66.5%66.5%Small Cap 18.1%18.1%Unclassified 1.2%Large Cap 10.0%Mid Cap 66.5%Small Cap 18.1%Unclassified 1.2%
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 stocks79
Top 5 stocks12.22%
Top 10 stocks22.36%
Top 20 stocks39.09%
Largest single holding2.87%
Largest sectorBanks · 9.38%
Number of sectors29
Effective stocks69.0
Cash & equivalents1.74%

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 — 9.4%Consumer Durables — 7.1%Industrial Products — 6.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 6.1%Finance — 6.0%Retailing — 5.8%Electrical Equipment — 5.2%Auto Components — 5.0%Capital Markets — 4.5%Other — 44.4%Banks9.4%Consumer Durables7.1%Industrial Products6.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…6.1%Finance6.0%Retailing5.8%Electrical Equipment5.2%Auto Components5.0%Capital Markets4.5%Other44.4%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 22.4% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd 2.87%
Biocon Ltd 2.47%
Federal Bank Ltd 2.39%
One 97 Communications Ltd 2.29%
IDFC First Bank Ltd 2.20%
APL Apollo Tubes Ltd 2.16%
Mankind Pharma Ltd 2.12%
Prestige Estates Projects Ltd 1.99%
Balkrishna Industries Ltd 1.96%
Coforge Ltd 1.91%
Swiggy Ltd 1.90%
Ashok Leyland Ltd 1.85%

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₹498 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹493 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions4 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of3 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +4.31% 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 4
RBL Bank Ltd 3,615,072 entered — 136 136
MTAR Technologies Ltd 235,000 entered — 135 135
Indo Mim Ltd 1,500,000 entered — 116 116
One 97 Communications Ltd 500,000 entered — 67.2 67.2
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd 1,800,000 +36.7% +58.4% 110 411
PB Fintech Ltd 550,000 +52.4% -1.7% 88.1 256
Biocon Ltd 1,875,000 +30.2% +1.8% 79.8 345
Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd 40,163 +29.7% +17.9% 56.4 247
Astral Ltd 297,267 +36.4% +8.5% 43.1 161
Swiggy Ltd 1,300,000 +20.1% +19.0% 37.0 221
Coforge Ltd 177,363 +12.3% +17.4% 30.5 280
360 One Wam Ltd 250,081 +28.5% +5.7% 28.4 128
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Page Industries Ltd 17,000 -35.1% -2.4% 68.6 127
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd 1,764,616 -21.0% +22.2% 68.1 256
Oberoi Realty Ltd 370,179 -38.0% +3.3% 67.7 110
Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd 61,632 -59.2% -5.4% 53.0 36.6
Phoenix Mills Ltd 270,000 -29.9% -2.8% 51.1 120
Mphasis Ltd 166,986 -14.5% +8.4% 39.1 231
SRF Ltd 124,200 -17.0% -4.3% 32.6 160
IPCA Laboratories Ltd 161,034 -10.9% +2.8% 28.2 229
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 3
IndusInd Bank Ltd 1,050,000 exited — 97.0 —
Cummins India Ltd 102,366 exited — 57.9 —
Abbott India Ltd 20,522 exited — 52.2 —

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 Mid Cap 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
Franklin India Mid Cap Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund · this scheme 7.1% -9.3% 0.85 17.0% 0.03 -74.0%
HSBC Midcap Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 25.0% 6.8% 1.04 19.9% 0.93 -26.1%
Invesco India Mid Cap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 24.2% 5.9% 1.02 19.5% 0.91 -70.8%
WhiteOak Capital Mid Cap Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 22.4% 5.4% 0.90 16.9% 0.94 -19.7%
ICICI Prudential Mid Cap Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 23.4% 5.4% 1.01 18.6% 0.91 -75.1%
Edelweiss Mid Cap Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 21.4% 4.1% 0.95 17.6% 0.85 -41.1%
ITI Mid Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 20.7% 2.5% 1.02 18.8% 0.76 -23.8%
BANDHAN MID CAP FUND Bandhan Mutual Fund 18.0% 0.4% 0.97 18.5% 0.62 -23.3%
Nippon India Growth Mid Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 19.8% 2.2% 0.97 17.8% 0.75 -62.7%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty Midcap 150. 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 Mid Cap scheme is

At least 65% in companies ranked 101st to 250th by market value.

The middle of the market: businesses large enough to have survived a cycle, small enough to double. Returns are higher over long periods and the falls are deeper — a 40% drawdown is ordinary here, not a crisis.

Who it suits. Investors who already hold large-cap funds and can leave the money untouched through a bad year.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Franklin India Mid Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹79.2159 as on 28 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 Franklin India Mid 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 65% in companies ranked 101st to 250th by market value. The middle of the market: businesses large enough to have survived a cycle, small enough to double. Returns are higher over long periods and the falls are deeper — a 40% drawdown is ordinary here, not a crisis.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who already hold large-cap funds and can leave the money untouched through a bad year.