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ICICI Prudential Exports & Services Fund

Option Growth IDCW

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Fund basics

Launched2 Jan 2013 13.8 years of history
CategorySectoral / ThematicSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW code 120687
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on30 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,362 published NAVs between 2 Jan 2013 and 28 Aug 2026 — 13.7 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
ICICI Prudential Exports & Services Fund Direct 2.986.966.41 7.8213.3911.34 13.958.4813.46
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
Sectoral / Thematic category median · 142 funds ——— -5.6313.0410.23 —13.74—

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 Sectoral / Thematic — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 30 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Exports & Services Fund Direct 13.74 0.50 0.77 0.86 1.89 -44.74
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
13.7%8.9%0.500.77

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-44.7%10 months-0.6%
0%-15%-31%-46%2014201620182020202220242026
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
83.8%7.4%-36.4%28%
Worst-36.4%Median7.4%Best83.8%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%20211.9%202221.7%202318.5%20245.8%20252.4%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 ₹789,559 today, an XIRR of 10.93% 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

95.12%Equity
4.88%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

AMFI has not classified this scheme's holdings into large, mid and small cap in the filing we hold, so there is no split to show. The section is left here rather than hidden so it is clear the data is missing, not that the fund holds nothing.

Concentration

Number of stocks60
Top 5 stocks23.66%
Top 10 stocks35.90%
Top 20 stocks55.18%
Largest single holding6.73%
Largest sectorBanks · 17.07%
Number of sectors27
Effective stocks42.2
Cash & equivalents4.88%

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 — 17.1%Capital Markets — 13.5%It - Software — 8.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 6.4%Insurance — 6.0%Cash & Equivalents — 4.9%Transport Services — 4.6%Healthcare Services — 4.0%Petroleum Products — 3.6%Other — 31.5%Banks17.1%Capital Markets13.5%It - Software8.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…6.4%Insurance6.0%Cash & Equivalents4.9%Transport Services4.6%Healthcare Services4.0%Petroleum Products3.6%Other31.5%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 36.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Bank Ltd. 6.73%
Infosys Ltd. 5.92%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 4.68%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 3.61%
TREPS 3.12%
Angel One Ltd. 2.71%
Shadowfax Technologies Ltd 2.62%
360 One Wam Ltd. 2.58%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 2.44%
Prudent Corporate Advisory Services Ltd 2.34%
State Bank Of India 2.26%
Life Insurance Corporation of India 2.14%

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 Mar 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₹99.7 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹122 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions17 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of10 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +17.53% 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
SBI Funds Management Ltd. 437,837 entered — 25.8 25.8
TD Power Systems Ltd. 169,344 entered — 19.2 19.2
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 394,419 entered — 15.4 15.4
Lohia Corp Ltd. 277,655 entered — 14.9 14.9
CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. 133,100 entered — 11.5 11.5
PB Fintech Ltd. 71,315 entered — 11.4 11.4
Jupiter Life Line Hospitals Ltd 314,640 entered — 10.4 10.4
Carborundum Universal Ltd. 90,377 entered — 9.6 9.6
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 63,231 +1,273.0% +15.0% 21.5 23.2
Bajaj Finance Ltd. 122,300 +165.3% +42.4% 14.0 22.4
Life Insurance Corporation of India 242,208 +76.3% -41.5% 10.3 23.8
Avenue Supermarts Ltd. 23,230 +43.6% -0.9% 9.1 30.0
HDFC Bank Ltd. 115,000 +12.1% +2.3% 8.6 79.9
Avanti Feeds Ltd. 75,080 +124.0% -23.5% 6.8 12.2
Infosys Ltd. 48,000 +5.9% -9.6% 5.4 97.8
TVS Motor Company Ltd. 9,519 +27.5% +28.2% 4.1 19.1
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 134,500 -49.5% +13.3% 26.8 27.3
NTPC Ltd. 695,125 -45.9% -6.3% 24.1 28.5
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 33,744 -29.8% +12.4% 13.3 31.4
Reliance Industries Ltd. 95,415 -19.5% -2.7% 12.5 51.5
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. 89,775 -54.9% -8.5% 10.3 8.5
Computer Age Management Services Ltd. 87,000 -19.5% +27.2% 6.9 28.6
Shilpa Medicare Ltd. 64,200 -21.4% +75.2% 3.9 14.4
The Phoenix Mills Ltd. 19,864 -22.5% +25.7% 3.8 12.9
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Bajaj Auto Ltd. 19,351 exited — 17.0 —
KEC International Ltd. 275,825 exited — 14.1 —
Vinati Organics Ltd. 70,131 exited — 9.3 —
Techno Electric & Engineering Company Ltd. 89,338 exited — 8.8 —
Vedanta Ltd. 133,181 exited — 8.7 —
Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Ltd. 381,603 exited — 8.6 —
Jupiter Life Line Hospitals Ltd 62,928 exited — 8.1 —
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. 160,828 exited — 8.0 —

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 Sectoral / Thematic 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
ICICI Prudential Exports & Services Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 13.4% 1.9% 0.86 13.7% 0.50 -44.7%
Nippon India Taiwan Equity Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 61.1% 51.0% 0.41 36.4% 1.50 -44.8%
HDFC Defence Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 39.2% 22.3% 1.61 31.1% 1.05 -34.5%
HDFC Pharma and Healthcare Fund HDFC Mutual Fund — 22.4% 0.71 16.2% 1.60 -14.9%
Nippon India Japan Equity Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 22.8% 13.2% 0.40 14.3% 1.14 -29.9%
Aditya Birla Sun Life International Equity Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 21.0% 12.3% 0.27 13.3% 1.09 -27.5%
HDFC Transportation and Logistics Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 27.8% 14.7% 1.05 18.5% 1.15 -23.5%
SBI HEALTHCARE OPPORTUNITIES FUND SBI Mutual Fund 24.9% 14.4% 0.64 14.4% 1.28 -30.5%
Franklin Asian Equity Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 24.4% 13.9% 0.59 17.4% 1.03 -40.2%

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 Sectoral / Thematic scheme is

At least 80% in one sector or theme.

The same concentration risk as any sector fund. Themes are usually launched after the theme has already run, which is why the average investor's return in these funds trails the funds' own published returns.

Who it suits. A small, deliberate satellite position — rarely a core holding.

How long money should stay. Through a full cycle.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Exports & Services Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW?

₹72.4200 as on 30 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 ICICI Prudential Exports & Services 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 80% in one sector or theme. The same concentration risk as any sector fund. Themes are usually launched after the theme has already run, which is why the average investor's return in these funds trails the funds' own published returns.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically Through a full cycle. A small, deliberate satellite position — rarely a core holding.