HDFC Equity Savings Fund
Direct–Growth is the plan and option we treat as this fund's main page, so search engines are pointed there. Everything below is this filing's own data.
Fund basics
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
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
Concentration
| Number of stocks | 118 |
|---|---|
| Top 5 stocks | 26.68% |
| Top 10 stocks | 40.11% |
| Top 20 stocks | 55.08% |
| Largest single holding | 7.68% |
| Largest sector | Banks · 18.23% |
| Number of sectors | 41 |
| Effective stocks | 42.0 |
| Cash & equivalents | 3.25% |
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
Largest holdings
Top 10 are 40.5% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.
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 in its category
Against the Equity Savings 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.
| Scheme | Return | Alpha | Beta | Volatility | Sharpe | Max fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nippon India Equity Savings Fund (Existing number of Segregated Portfolios - 2) Nippon India Mutual Fund | 31.2% | 15.4% | 0.41 | 53.8% | 0.46 | 0.0% |
| HSBC Equity Savings Fund HSBC Mutual Fund | 12.8% | 5.2% | 0.37 | 6.5% | 0.97 | -11.7% |
| Edelweiss Equity Savings Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund | 10.7% | 1.4% | 0.28 | 4.7% | 0.90 | -9.6% |
| Tata Equity Savings Fund Tata Mutual Fund | 9.8% | -0.7% | 0.31 | 4.4% | 0.75 | -14.0% |
| Kotak Equity Savings Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund | 9.7% | 0.5% | 0.37 | 5.6% | 0.57 | -16.5% |
| Mirae Asset Equity Savings Fund Mirae Asset Mutual Fund | 9.5% | 0.9% | 0.44 | 7.3% | 0.41 | -18.2% |
| Baroda BNP Paribas Equity Savings Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund | 9.0% | -0.5% | 0.28 | 5.4% | 0.46 | -8.5% |
| Axis Equity Savings Fund Axis Mutual Fund | 8.9% | -1.0% | 0.42 | 6.8% | 0.35 | -17.6% |
Alpha and beta are against Nifty 100. 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 Equity Savings scheme is
Equity, arbitrage and debt together.
Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.
Who it suits. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.
How long money should stay. 2 to 3 years.
Questions people ask
What is the NAV of HDFC Equity Savings Fund — Regular Plan — Growth Option?
₹68.1990 as on 28 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 HDFC Equity Savings 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?
Equity, arbitrage and debt together. Taxed as an equity fund while behaving much more like a debt one, because a large part of the equity is hedged. The tax treatment is the point.
How long should money stay in it?
Typically 2 to 3 years. Money with a two- to three-year horizon that would otherwise sit in a debt fund.