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JM Flexi Cap Fund

Direct Plan Growth Option Flexi Cap JM Financial Mutual Fund Code 120492 ISIN INF192K01CC7

Fund basics

Launched2 Jan 2013 13.7 years of history
CategoryFlexi CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth Option code 120492
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on26 Aug 2026source AMFI

Returns

Returns for this scheme are not computed yet — we need at least three years of published NAV. The NAV above is today's, straight from AMFI.

Direct vs Regular — same portfolio, two prices

The same fund, the same manager, the same shares. The only difference is the distributor commission inside the Regular plan's expense ratio — charged every year, on the whole balance.

PlanNAV1y3y5y
Direct (this page) 116.6547 4.38% 16.94% 17.74%
Regular 101.1443 3.11% 15.39% 16.40%

1.34 percentage points a year separate them over five years. On ₹1,00,000 left for ten years that is ₹511,965 against ₹456,594 — ₹55,371 for holding the same portfolio under a different label.

Everything the NAV says

Computed from 3,360 published NAVs between 2 Jan 2013 and 27 Aug 2026 — 13.6 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
JM Flexi Cap Fund Direct 4.256.676.75 5.8316.6717.12 19.3116.8116.86
Nifty 500 benchmark 1.702.710.73 3.9512.5111.37 15.46
Flexi Cap category median · 34 funds 4.2913.9512.40 13.88

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 Flexi 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 26 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
JM Flexi Cap Fund Direct 17.05 0.60 0.83 0.97 3.79 -34.95
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.17 0.35 0.47 -37.31

Risk measures use a risk-free rate of 6.5% and are stated so they can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be. Beta and alpha need an index, so they are blank for the benchmark row itself.

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 83 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.

AlphaBetaFund vs indexUp captureDown captureTracking errorInformation ratioTreynor
3.79%0.9790%3.49%104%88%6.00%0.5814.29

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
17.0%12.3%0.600.83

Sharpe and Sortino use a risk-free rate of 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond. Both are stated so the figure can be checked — a ratio quoted without its risk-free rate cannot be.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-35.0%8 months-5.8%
0%-11%-23%-34%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
80.6%15.9%-19.2%22%
Worst-19.2%Median15.9%Best80.6%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

34.0%20218.7%202241.6%202335.3%2024-5.6%20254.8%2026
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 ₹890,196 today, an XIRR of 15.79% 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.

How it compares with its closest peers

The same category, the same plan, the same option — the only comparison that means anything. A Flexi Cap Direct Plan Growth Option scheme against another of exactly the same kind.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
JM Flexi Cap Fund JM Financial Mutual Fund · this scheme 16.7% 3.8% 0.97 17.0% 0.60 -35.0%
Axis Flexi Cap Fund Axis Mutual Fund 15.7% 0.3% 0.86 15.2% 0.61 -29.9%
Baroda BNP Paribas Flexi Cap Fund Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 14.7% 2.6% 0.97 13.8% 0.59 -20.4%
HDFC Flexi Cap Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 17.7% 4.8% 0.97 16.9% 0.66 -41.8%
ITI Flexi Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 20.1% 8.8% 1.07 15.2% 0.89 -21.4%
JioBlackRock Flexi Cap Fund Jio BlackRock Mutual Fund 14.7% -14.3%
NJ Flexi Cap Fund NJ Mutual Fund -0.4% 1.01 14.3% 0.33 -26.7%
Nippon India Flexi Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 12.6% 1.4% 0.98 14.6% 0.42 -19.8%
Quant Flexi Cap Fund quant Mutual Fund 18.1% 11.9% 0.98 17.9% 0.65 -41.3%

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 Flexi Cap scheme is

At least 65% in equity, with no limit on where across large, mid and small.

The manager decides the mix and can change it. That freedom is the whole product — you are buying a judgement, not a rulebook — so the manager's record matters more here than in almost any other category.

Who it suits. Somebody who wants one equity fund rather than three, and trusts a manager to allocate.

How long money should stay. 5 to 7 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of JM Flexi Cap Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option?

₹116.6547 as on 26 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 JM Flexi 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 equity, with no limit on where across large, mid and small. The manager decides the mix and can change it. That freedom is the whole product — you are buying a judgement, not a rulebook — so the manager's record matters more here than in almost any other category.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 to 7 years. Somebody who wants one equity fund rather than three, and trusts a manager to allocate.