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ICICI Prudential Mid Cap Fund

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Fund basics

Launched2 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryMid CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 120381
BenchmarkNifty Midcap 150 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Computed from 3,361 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 Mid Cap Fund Direct 4.914.8610.74 22.2424.3719.63 23.3317.7719.66
Nifty Midcap 150 benchmark 1.724.387.82 13.0017.68 20.15
Mid Cap category median · 33 funds 10.2119.8417.23 17.08

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 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 27 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Mid Cap Fund Direct 16.79 1.06 1.46 0.99 2.83 -44.04
Nifty Midcap 150 benchmark 15.72 0.71 0.97 -21.10

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 46 months this fund and Nifty Midcap 150 (via SBI Nifty Midcap 150 Index Fund) both have. Alpha is Jensen's — the return left over after the market move this fund's own beta would predict.

AlphaBetaFund vs indexUp captureDown captureTracking errorInformation ratioTreynor
2.83%0.9992%2.62%102%89%4.83%0.5417.73

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
16.8%12.3%1.061.46

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-44.0%8 monthsAt a high
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
126.9%15.3%-34.1%16%
Worst-34.1%Median15.3%Best126.9%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

46.2%20214.1%202233.9%202328.1%202411.9%202512.6%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 ₹1,022,326 today, an XIRR of 21.48% 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

98.36%Equity
1.63%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

22.83%Large
63.23%Mid
12.30%Small
Large Cap 22.8%22.8%Mid Cap 63.2%63.2%Small Cap 12.3%12.3%Large Cap 22.8%Mid Cap 63.2%Small Cap 12.3%
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 stocks81
Top 5 stocks21.53%
Top 10 stocks38.21%
Top 20 stocks61.53%
Largest single holding4.72%
Largest sectorIndustrial Products · 13.24%
Number of sectors30
Effective stocks40.6
Cash & equivalents1.63%

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

Industrial Products — 13.2%Capital Markets — 12.4%Auto Components — 8.3%Ferrous Metals — 8.1%Electrical Equipment — 7.7%Chemicals & Petrochemicals — 5.5%Realty — 5.1%Fertilizers & Agrochemicals — 4.8%Finance — 4.4%Other — 30.6%Industrial Products13.2%Capital Markets12.4%Auto Components8.3%Ferrous Metals8.1%Electrical Equipment7.7%Chemicals & Petrochemicals5.5%Realty5.1%Fertilizers & Agrochemica…4.8%Finance4.4%Other30.6%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 38.2% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Jindal Steel Ltd. 4.72%
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Ltd. 4.51%
APL Apollo Tubes Ltd. 4.20%
BSE Ltd. 4.13%
Apar Industries Ltd. 3.97%
Muthoot Finance Ltd. 3.97%
Jindal Stainless Ltd. 3.36%
Bharti Hexacom Ltd. 3.16%
Vedanta Ltd. 3.12%
PB Fintech Ltd. 3.06%
UPL Ltd. 3.00%
Bharat Forge Ltd. 3.00%

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 Mid Cap 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 Mid Cap Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 24.4% 2.8% 0.99 16.8% 1.06 -44.0%
HSBC Midcap Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 26.3% 6.4% 1.00 16.8% 1.18 -26.0%
Invesco India Midcap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 25.7% 5.5% 1.00 15.9% 1.21 -34.1%
WhiteOak Capital Mid Cap Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund 24.2% 6.0% 0.92 14.6% 1.21 -19.3%
Edelweiss Mid Cap Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 23.0% 3.8% 0.93 17.0% 0.97 -39.2%
ITI Mid Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 22.8% 3.0% 1.00 16.2% 1.01 -22.7%
Mahindra Manulife Mid Cap Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 21.0% 4.1% 0.94 16.7% 0.87 -33.1%
JM Mid Cap Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund 21.2% 5.5% 0.99 16.5% 0.89 -22.5%
Sundaram Mid Cap Fund Sundaram Mutual Fund 21.1% 2.6% 0.93 16.3% 0.89 -44.3%

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 ICICI Prudential Mid Cap Fund — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹399.0000 as on 27 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 ICICI Prudential 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 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 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.