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ICICI Prudential Infrastructure Fund

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Fund basics

Launched2 Jan 2013 13.8 years of history
CategorySectoral / ThematicSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 120621
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 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 Infrastructure Fund Direct 0.851.883.96 7.9219.8323.82 24.1817.9916.34
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 27 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Infrastructure Fund Direct 17.46 0.76 1.31 1.09 6.64 -46.83
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
6.64%1.0989%7.15%123%96%5.81%1.2312.01

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
17.5%10.2%0.761.31

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-46.8%10 months-1.6%
0%-17%-34%-51%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
116.3%14.8%-39.7%22%
Worst-39.7%Median14.8%Best116.3%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

50.8%202129.6%202245.4%202328.3%20247.5%20253.4%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 ₹983,081 today, an XIRR of 19.86% 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

96.88%Equity
1.78%Cash & Equivalents
0.71%Debt
0.62%REITs / InvITs

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

41.30%Large
20.87%Mid
34.21%Small
Large Cap 41.3%41.3%Mid Cap 20.9%20.9%Small Cap 34.2%34.2%Unclassified 1.8%Large Cap 41.3%Mid Cap 20.9%Small Cap 34.2%Unclassified 1.8%
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 stocks80
Top 5 stocks26.04%
Top 10 stocks40.48%
Top 20 stocks61.42%
Largest single holding8.37%
Largest sectorConstruction · 15.80%
Number of sectors26
Effective stocks36.9
Cash & equivalents1.78%

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

Construction — 15.8%Industrial Products — 12.6%Transport Services — 10.0%Realty — 7.4%Power — 6.7%Banks — 5.9%Cement & Cement Products — 5.7%Electrical Equipment — 4.8%Petroleum Products — 4.4%Other — 26.7%Construction15.8%Industrial Products12.6%Transport Services10.0%Realty7.4%Power6.7%Banks5.9%Cement & Cement Products5.7%Electrical Equipment4.8%Petroleum Products4.4%Other26.7%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

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.

Interglobe Aviation Ltd. 8.37%
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 5.38%
Oberoi Realty Ltd. 4.38%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 4.37%
NTPC Ltd. 3.55%
Kalpataru Projects International Ltd 3.07%
Brigade Enterprises Ltd. 2.98%
Shree Cements Ltd. 2.90%
HDFC Bank Ltd. 2.89%
GMM Pfaudler Ltd. 2.59%
Cummins India Ltd. 2.54%
Tata Steel Ltd. 2.33%

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₹503 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹1,187 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions17 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of2 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +13.77% 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
Tata Steel Ltd. 10,400,024 entered — 197 197
Hindalco Industries Ltd. 1,244,049 entered — 121 121
Cummins India Ltd. 167,372 entered — 92.4 92.4
SIEMENS ENERGY INDIA LTD 271,756 entered — 87.8 87.8
NHPC Ltd. 10,000,000 entered — 78.7 78.7
Vedanta Aluminium Metal Ltd. 1,435,641 entered — 65.2 65.2
Voltamp Transformers Ltd. 56,110 entered — 55.7 55.7
Coal India Ltd. 1,157,231 entered — 47.9 47.9
Added tobought more shares than last month 7
Reliance Industries Ltd. 1,600,000 +111.9% -2.7% 209 396
HDFC Bank Ltd. 1,357,506 +67.9% +2.3% 102 251
Gujarat Gas Ltd. 3,073,000 +59.0% -10.7% 84.4 227
Brigade Enterprises Ltd. 893,679 +26.6% -10.8% 51.9 247
GMM Pfaudler Ltd. 391,978 +36.9% +9.0% 33.9 126
Shree Cements Ltd. 8,600 +8.8% +13.2% 22.4 279
Orient Refractories Ltd. 4,742 +0.5% +15.0% 0.2 38.5
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Interglobe Aviation Ltd. 360,000 -21.7% +31.1% 186 673
IndusInd Bank Ltd. 1,344,654 -55.5% +34.6% 136 109
Oberoi Realty Ltd. 598,285 -22.7% +28.8% 109 373
INOX India Ltd 561,409 -52.5% +62.4% 107 97.0
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 237,219 -15.8% +12.4% 93.4 500
Container Corporation Of India Ltd. 1,611,268 -31.3% +23.6% 84.7 186
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. 427,500 -38.3% +29.3% 72.5 117
KSB Ltd. 598,258 -30.8% +7.4% 51.2 115
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 2
Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. 3,917,997 exited — 90.0 —
Thermax Ltd. 234,690 exited — 76.5 —

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 Infrastructure Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 19.8% 6.6% 1.09 17.5% 0.76 -46.8%
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 Infrastructure Fund — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹199.4800 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 Infrastructure 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?

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.