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ICICI Prudential Focused Fund

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Fund basics

Launched3 Jun 2009 17.4 years of history
CategoryFocusedSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth code 111957
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 4,249 published NAVs between 3 Jun 2009 and 28 Aug 2026 — 17.2 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 Focused Fund Regular 0.627.141.98 5.2317.5915.74 19.2114.6113.94
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 ——15.49
Focused category median · 32 funds ——— -5.9310.928.25 —11.85—

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 Focused — 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
ICICI Prudential Focused Fund Regular 14.91 0.74 1.13 0.94 5.32 -35.17
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
5.32%0.9493%4.99%110%87%4.11%1.2111.53

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
14.9%9.9%0.741.13

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-35.2%8 months-3.2%
0%-11%-23%-34%201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
91.4%11.2%-30.7%17%
Worst-30.7%Median11.2%Best91.4%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

36.1%20216.0%202228.3%202326.5%202415.4%2025-1.8%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 ₹883,776 today, an XIRR of 15.50% 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

94.58%Equity
4.84%Cash & Equivalents
0.58%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

121.11%Large
64.11%Mid
5.73%Small
Large Cap 121.1%121.1%Mid Cap 64.1%64.1%Small Cap 5.7%Unclassified 0.6%Large Cap 121.1%Mid Cap 64.1%Small Cap 5.7%Unclassified 0.6%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small.

Concentration

Number of stocks30
Top 5 stocks29.32%
Top 10 stocks47.03%
Top 20 stocks75.96%
Largest single holding8.73%
Largest sectorBanks · 20.29%
Number of sectors19
Effective stocks26.7
Cash & equivalents4.84%

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 — 20.3%Capital Markets — 12.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 9.0%Realty — 5.9%Finance — 5.6%Cash & Equivalents — 4.8%It - Software — 4.7%Transport Infrastructure — 4.4%Automobiles — 4.3%Other — 28.5%Banks20.3%Capital Markets12.5%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…9.0%Realty5.9%Finance5.6%Cash & Equivalents4.8%It - Software4.7%Transport Infrastructure4.4%Automobiles4.3%Other28.5%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 48.1% 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. 8.73%
Axis Bank Ltd. 6.78%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 4.77%
Mphasis Ltd. 4.72%
TVS Motor Company Ltd. 4.32%
TREPS 4.30%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 4.20%
HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd. 3.56%
Ashok Leyland Ltd. 3.52%
The Phoenix Mills Ltd. 3.21%
BSE Ltd. 3.20%
PNB Housing Finance Ltd. 3.13%

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₹2,701 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹778 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions7 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of8 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +16.62% 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
Ashok Leyland Ltd. 28,159,770 entered — 468 468
PNB Housing Finance Ltd. 4,383,418 entered — 462 462
Biocon Ltd. 10,290,000 entered — 438 438
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. 3,497,500 entered — 402 402
Alkem Laboratories Ltd. 684,536 entered — 394 394
Tata Steel Ltd. 17,950,874 entered — 341 341
JSW Infrastructure Ltd 8,841,186 entered — 276 276
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
TVS Motor Company Ltd. 1,045,951 +82.4% +28.2% 451 999
Mphasis Ltd. 1,740,647 +78.5% +14.1% 408 927
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 1,304,771 +51.9% +10.6% 257 753
HDFC Bank Ltd. 3,378,158 +36.9% +2.3% 253 938
Axis Bank Ltd. 1,814,054 +27.7% +5.9% 223 1,029
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. 1,107,628 +40.9% +29.3% 188 647
Cholamandalam Investment And Finance Company Ltd. 813,327 +43.4% +36.6% 150 497
ICICI Bank Ltd. 966,000 +9.3% +19.0% 139 1,627
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 6
The Indian Hotels Company Ltd. 5,457,638 -83.3% +29.4% 403 80.8
MAX Healthcare Institute Ltd 1,461,964 -29.3% +14.2% 161 387
Titan Company Ltd. 146,589 -11.9% +23.4% 71.5 530
Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. 374,480 -12.0% +43.5% 60.5 445
The Phoenix Mills Ltd. 267,141 -8.8% +25.7% 50.6 524
360 One Wam Ltd. 280,023 -6.2% +19.6% 31.8 478
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Infosys Ltd. 6,168,888 exited — 771 —
Info Edge (India) Ltd. 5,301,649 exited — 513 —
Pidilite Industries Ltd. 3,376,342 exited — 434 —
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 1,158,055 exited — 406 —
NTPC Ltd. 10,763,949 exited — 399 —
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 1,320,997 exited — 390 —
Eternal Ltd. 13,239,255 exited — 303 —
Interglobe Aviation Ltd. 657,116 exited — 259 —

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 Focused 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
ICICI Prudential Focused Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 17.6% 5.3% 0.94 14.9% 0.74 -35.2%
Invesco India Focused Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 22.4% 9.3% 1.03 17.6% 0.90 -23.0%
ITI Focused Fund ITI Mutual Fund 18.1% 5.4% 1.03 16.3% 0.71 -19.0%
HDFC Focused Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 16.2% 4.8% 0.79 12.7% 0.76 -64.2%
Bandhan Focused Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 14.4% 1.8% 0.99 16.6% 0.48 -39.2%
SBI FOCUSED FUND SBI Mutual Fund 16.5% 5.3% 0.82 13.9% 0.72 -78.4%
Kotak Focused Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 15.3% 3.2% 0.93 14.5% 0.61 -36.5%
Motilal Oswal Focused Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund 14.4% 1.1% 1.07 19.6% 0.40 -34.6%
HSBC Focused Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 15.4% 2.6% 1.02 16.7% 0.53 -21.8%

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 Focused scheme is

A maximum of 30 stocks, at least 65% in equity.

Concentration by design. Every holding matters, so the fund rises and falls on a handful of decisions — which means the gap between a good and a bad focused fund is far wider than in a diversified one.

Who it suits. Investors who want a manager's highest-conviction ideas and can accept being wrong in a concentrated way.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Focused Fund — Regular Plan — Growth?

₹89.1400 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 ICICI Prudential Focused 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?

A maximum of 30 stocks, at least 65% in equity. Concentration by design. Every holding matters, so the fund rises and falls on a handful of decisions — which means the gap between a good and a bad focused fund is far wider than in a diversified one.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who want a manager's highest-conviction ideas and can accept being wrong in a concentrated way.