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Kotak Energy Opportunities Fund

Option Growth IDCW

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Fund basics

Launched2 May 2025 1.3 years of history
CategorySectoral / ThematicSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW-Payout & Reinvestment code 153448
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Computed from 329 published NAVs between 2 May 2025 and 28 Aug 2026 — 1.3 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
Kotak Energy Opportunities Fund Direct 0.78-1.961.07 8.69 6.06
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 15.49
Sectoral / Thematic category median · 131 funds 6.9716.9114.34 15.17

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 Aug 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Kotak Energy Opportunities Fund Direct 13.71 -0.03 -0.04 0.93 1.30 -9.59
Nifty 500 benchmark 17.16 0.35 0.47 -37.31

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
13.7%9.7%-0.03-0.04

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-9.6%1 months-3.4%
0%-4%-7%-11%2026
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.

Calendar years

20265.0%

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
Kotak Energy Opportunities Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund · this scheme 1.3% 0.93 13.7% -0.03 -9.6%
Nippon India Taiwan Equity Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 59.7% 30.7% 0.49 32.3% 1.65 -44.8%
HDFC Defence Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 39.2% 30.7% 1.60 24.8% 1.32 -34.5%
LIC MF Infrastructure Fund LIC Mutual Fund 25.4% 8.3% 1.08 18.1% 1.05 -39.6%
ICICI PRUDENTIAL TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS FUND ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 25.5% 13.5% 1.01 15.7% 1.21 -23.6%
Franklin Asian Equity Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 24.5% 2.2% 0.52 15.4% 1.17 -40.2%
BANK OF INDIA MANUFACTURING & INFRASTRUCTURE FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 24.3% 11.6% 0.95 17.0% 1.05 -43.5%
SBI PSU FUND SBI Mutual Fund 23.7% 6.9% 1.00 19.7% 0.87 -47.1%
SBI HEALTHCARE OPPORTUNITIES FUND SBI Mutual Fund 24.9% 15.6% 0.62 16.0% 1.15 -30.5%

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 Kotak Energy Opportunities Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW-Payout & Reinvestment?

₹10.7890 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 Kotak Energy Opportunities 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-Payout & Reinvestment 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?

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.