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ICICI Prudential NASDAQ 100 Index Fund

Option Growth IDCW
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Fund basics

Launched19 Oct 2021 5.0 years of history
CategoryIndex FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW code 149220
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on28 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 1,158 published NAVs between 19 Oct 2021 and 28 Aug 2026 — 4.9 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 NASDAQ 100 Index Fund Regular 8.01-2.9723.47 34.5830.68— ——19.48
Nifty 100 benchmark 0.253.49-1.52 1.8410.529.38 ——12.79
Index Funds category median · 195 funds ——— -3.897.275.88 —10.77—

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 Index Funds — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 28 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential NASDAQ 100 Index Fund Regular 17.88 1.35 2.73 0.32 21.57 -30.21
Nifty 100 benchmark 14.37 0.28 0.40 —— -37.03

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
17.9%8.8%1.352.73

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-30.2%13 months-4.1%
0%-11%-22%-33%202220242026
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
62.1%29.4%-28.6%13%
Worst-28.6%Median29.4%Best62.1%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

-25.7%202253.7%202328.5%202425.3%202523.4%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.

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

99.94%Foreign Securities
0.06%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

—Large
—Mid
—Small
Unclassified 99.9%99.9%Unclassified 99.9%
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 stocks101
Top 5 stocks30.74%
Top 10 stocks46.84%
Top 20 stocks66.91%
Largest single holding8.35%
Largest sectorSemiconductors · 26.85%
Number of sectors47
Effective stocks31.7
Cash & equivalents0.06%

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

Semiconductors — 26.9%Interactive Media & Services — 9.2%Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals — 7.4%Systems Software — 6.9%Semiconductor Equipment — 5.5%Internet & Direct Marketing Retail — 5.4%Application Software — 3.8%Other — 34.9%Semiconductors26.9%Interactive Media & Servi…9.2%Technology Hardware, Stor…7.4%Systems Software6.9%Semiconductor Equipment5.5%Internet & Direct Marketi…5.4%Application Software3.8%Other34.9%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 46.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Nvidia Corporation 8.35%
Apple Inc 7.38%
Microsoft Corp 5.78%
Micron Technology Inc 5.04%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc 4.18%
Amazon com 4.08%
Facebook Inc 3.27%
Alphabet Inc 3.06%
Alphabet Inc 2.86%
Tesla Inc 2.83%
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2.71%
Intel Corp 2.65%

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₹90.8 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹37.7 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions11 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of9 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +29.45% 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
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 31,404 entered — 32.5 32.5
Sandisk Corp. 2,426 entered — 28.1 28.1
Honeywell Internation India Pvt Ltd 5,191 entered — 12.0 12.0
Honeywell Aerospace Inc 5,191 entered — 10.2 10.2
TERADYNE INC 2,564 entered — 9.0 9.0
Lumentum Holdings Inc,. 1,274 entered — 8.7 8.7
Astera Labs INC 2,808 entered — 8.3 8.3
Nebius Grp NV 3,611 entered — 6.6 6.6
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
KLA-Tencor corp 19,231 +885.4% -87.5% 33.5 37.3
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc 12,508 +299.5% -50.7% 22.8 30.4
Booking Holdings Inc 12,172 +2,322.9% -95.4% 22.4 23.4
ARM HOLDINGS PLC - ADR 4,633 +200.2% +59.6% 10.6 15.9
ASML Holding NV-NY REG SHS 45 +3.1% +24.3% 0.7 23.3
Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 60 +1.7% +120.2% 0.5 30.0
Microstrategy Inc. - Class A 215 +4.1% -24.7% 0.2 4.8
Western Digital Corp 29 +0.5% +103.0% 0.2 29.3
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 8
Nvidia Corporation 2,242 -1.5% +16.0% 4.3 275
Apple Inc 959 -1.1% +22.6% 2.8 257
Microsoft Corp 487 -1.1% +26.5% 2.2 195
Amazon com 597 -0.9% +31.4% 1.6 165
Micron Technology Inc 174 -0.9% +145.5% 1.4 145
Advanced Micro Devices Inc 302 -1.1% +135.8% 1.4 121
Alphabet Inc 383 -1.1% +24.8% 1.3 117
Broadcom Inc 321 -1.1% +26.7% 1.2 104
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 8
Honeywell Internation India Pvt Ltd 10,534 exited — 22.5 —
Thomson Reuters Corp 7,372 exited — 6.3 —
Insmed Inc 3,572 exited — 5.5 —
Cognizant Tech Solutions 7,925 exited — 4.6 —
Charter Communications Inc 2,098 exited — 4.3 —
Verisk Analytics Inc 2,286 exited — 4.1 —
Zscaler INC 2,664 exited — 3.5 —
Costar Group INC 6,957 exited — 2.7 —

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 Index Funds 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 NASDAQ 100 Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 30.7% 21.6% 0.32 17.9% 1.35 -30.2%
HDFC Silver ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 47.5% 41.1% -0.17 44.0% 0.93 -44.4%
HDFC Gold ETF HDFC Mutual Fund 38.0% 31.3% -0.07 20.2% 1.56 -29.6%
SBI Gold ETF SBI Mutual Fund 37.8% 31.1% -0.08 20.3% 1.55 -29.5%
ICICI Prudential NASDAQ 100 Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 30.7% 21.6% 0.32 17.9% 1.35 -30.2%
Motilal Oswal S&P 500 Index Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund 25.8% 17.5% 0.26 13.5% 1.43 -20.1%
ICICI Prudential Nifty Pharma Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 20.5% 11.4% 0.66 15.9% 0.88 -16.8%
UTI Nifty 500 Value 50 Index Fund UTI Mutual Fund 24.5% 13.3% 1.19 20.5% 0.88 -22.8%
Edelweiss MSCI India Domestic & World Healthcare 45 Index Fund Edelweiss Mutual Fund 19.8% 11.3% 0.51 12.2% 1.10 -16.7%

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 Index Funds scheme is

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions.

No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

Who it suits. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential NASDAQ 100 Index Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW?

₹24.0961 as on 28 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 NASDAQ 100 Index 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?

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions. No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.