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Motilal Oswal Financial Services Fund

Option Growth IDCW

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Fund basics

Launched20 Feb 2026 0.5 years of history
CategorySectoral / ThematicSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · Growth code 154137
BenchmarkNifty 500 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

Computed from 129 published NAVs between 20 Feb 2026 and 28 Aug 2026 — 0.5 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
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Fund Regular 3.3811.009.33
Nifty 500 benchmark 0.874.312.15 5.2012.4911.41 15.49
Sectoral / Thematic category median · 131 funds 5.6615.6212.90 13.92

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 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
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Fund Regular 20.20 -11.52
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 volatility
20.2%13.1%

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-11.5%1 months-0.9%
0%-4%-9%-13%
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.

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

96.47%Equity
3.53%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

54.63%Large
23.61%Mid
18.23%Small
Large Cap 54.6%54.6%Mid Cap 23.6%23.6%Small Cap 18.2%18.2%Large Cap 54.6%Mid Cap 23.6%Small Cap 18.2%
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 stocks27
Top 5 stocks38.05%
Top 10 stocks58.18%
Top 20 stocks87.85%
Largest single holding8.62%
Largest sectorBanks · 49.34%
Number of sectors5
Effective stocks21.0
Cash & equivalents3.53%

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

Banks — 49.3%Finance — 25.2%Capital Markets — 11.6%Financial Technology (Fintech) — 9.0%Cash & Equivalents — 3.5%Other — 1.4%Banks49.3%Finance25.2%Capital Markets11.6%Financial Technology (Fin…9.0%Cash & Equivalents3.5%Other1.4%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 58.2% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

ICICI Bank Limited 8.62%
HDFC Bank Limited 8.55%
Axis Bank Limited 7.05%
Bajaj Finance Ltd 6.95%
State Bank of India 6.88%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited 4.30%
Shriram Finance Limited 4.16%
IndusInd Bank Limited 4.02%
PNB Housing Finance Limited 3.92%
Billionbrains Garage Ventures Ltd 3.73%
PB Fintech Limited 3.60%
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited 3.39%

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 Sectoral / Thematic 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
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Fund Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund · this scheme 20.2% -11.5%
Nippon India Taiwan Equity Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund 58.9% 29.2% 0.49 32.3% 1.62 -45.5%
HDFC Defence Fund HDFC Mutual Fund 37.7% 29.0% 1.60 24.8% 1.26 -35.0%
ICICI PRUDENTIAL TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS FUND ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 24.1% 12.0% 1.01 15.7% 1.12 -24.0%
LIC MF Infrastructure Fund LIC Mutual Fund 23.8% 6.8% 1.08 20.6% 0.84 -50.8%
Franklin Asian Equity Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 23.3% 1.3% 0.52 16.9% 0.99 -42.8%
SBI PSU FUND SBI Mutual Fund 22.4% 5.7% 1.00 18.9% 0.84 -48.1%
SBI HEALTHCARE OPPORTUNITIES FUND SBI Mutual Fund 23.6% 14.3% 0.62 18.1% 0.94 -63.4%
UTI - Healthcare Fund UTI Mutual Fund 23.8% 12.4% 0.66 16.1% 1.07 -33.9%

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 Motilal Oswal Financial Services Fund — Regular Plan — Growth?

₹10.8903 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 Motilal Oswal Financial Services 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.