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Quant Small Cap Fund

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Fund basics

Launched3 Apr 2006 20.6 years of history
CategorySmall CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · IDCW Option code 100176
BenchmarkNifty Smallcap 250 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 5,028 published NAVs between 3 Apr 2006 and 28 Aug 2026 — 20.4 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
Quant Small Cap Fund Regular 4.119.6123.97 18.1018.0819.79 34.3019.5314.24
Nifty Smallcap 250 benchmark 2.989.0716.61 11.9016.9616.53 ——22.30
Small Cap category median · 28 funds ——— 0.7312.4912.49 —14.96—

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 Small 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 Oct 2026.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
Quant Small Cap Fund Regular 20.19 0.57 0.99 0.88 2.60 -67.02
Nifty Smallcap 250 benchmark 21.80 0.48 0.77 —— -42.44

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

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
20.2%11.7%0.570.99

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-67.0%1 monthsAt a high
0%-14%-29%-43%2008201020122014201620182020202220242026
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
219.1%6.2%-64.4%19%
Worst-64.4%Median6.2%Best219.1%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

88.3%20219.6%202246.4%202322.4%2024-2.3%202515.6%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 ₹965,008 today, an XIRR of 19.10% 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

88.30%Equity
11.23%Cash & Equivalents
1.12%Debt

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

13.35%Large
8.72%Mid
66.93%Small
Large Cap 13.4%13.4%Mid Cap 8.7%8.7%Small Cap 66.9%66.9%Unclassified 10.2%10.2%Large Cap 13.4%Mid Cap 8.7%Small Cap 66.9%Unclassified 10.2%
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 stocks121
Top 5 stocks29.28%
Top 10 stocks44.09%
Top 20 stocks65.08%
Largest single holding10.48%
Largest sectorN.A. · 98.13%
Number of sectors2
Effective stocks31.4
Cash & equivalents0.75%

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

N.A. — 98.9%Other — 1.1%N.A.98.9%Other1.1%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 44.1% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

TREPS 01-Oct-2026 DEPO 10 10.48%
HFCL Limited 6.10%
RBL Bank Limited 4.78%
Adani Enterprises Limited 4.36%
Adani Power Limited 3.56%
Aegis Logistics Limited 3.50%
Sona BLW Precision Forgings Limited 3.11%
Anand Rathi Wealth Limited 2.83%
Welspun Corp Limited 2.76%
Adani Green Energy Limited 2.61%
SUN TV Network Limited 2.49%
Piramal Finance Ltd 2.49%

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 30 Jun 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₹1,482 cr shares added, valued at this filing
Sold₹406 cr shares reduced or exited
New positions13 stocks not held a month ago
Sold out of4 stocks fully exited
Price move of what it held +0.54% the market's doing, not the manager's

Cash and equivalents: ₹3,188 cr (was ₹2,351 cr at the previous filing)

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 9
Hexaware Technologies Limited 6,593,970 entered — 370 370
Gabriel India Limited 828,572 entered — 119 119
Bandhan Bank Ltd. 4,626,000 entered — 80.6 80.6
KPIT Technologies Limited 1,281,951 entered — 76.7 76.7
Sumitomo Chemical India Limited 1,484,984 entered — 75.8 75.8
MANGALORE REFINERY & PETROCHEMICALS LTD 4,118,010 entered — 70.0 70.0
Redington Limited 1,893,888 entered — 60.9 60.9
Delhivery Limited 952,425 entered — 45.9 45.9
TREPS 03-Aug-2026 DEPO 10 3,188,966 entered — 3,188 3,188
Added tobought more shares than last month 8
Adani Enterprises Limited 1,302,569 +32.2% -0.9% 392 1,608
Manappuram Finance Ltd 8,790,750 +52.3% +14.7% 327 952
Sona BLW Precision Forgings Limited 3,549,428 +45.0% +24.1% 273 881
ETHOS LIMITED 700,000 +736.0% +5.2% 180 205
Aegis Logistics Limited 904,735 +11.1% +9.1% 116 1,156
Welspun Living Limited 3,855,966 +28.1% -1.8% 60.1 274
Alivus Life Sciences 479,210 +27.5% +0.3% 55.6 258
LIC Housing Finance Ltd 684,000 +30.7% -7.3% 35.8 152
Trimmedcut the share count, without selling out 7
RBL Bank Limited 7,803,535 -15.6% +1.8% 293 1,583
SMS Pharmaceuticals Limited 1,100,764 -59.2% -9.4% 41.2 28.4
RISHABH INSTRUMENTS LIMITED 644,748 -34.0% +6.7% 39.4 76.5
Apollo Tyres Ltd 299,934 -7.5% -0.5% 12.8 158
Sula Vineyards Limited 523,062 -15.8% +11.4% 8.9 47.6
National Building Construction Corp 780,300 -4.6% -9.7% 7.4 155
Man Infraconstruction Limited 321,830 -11.5% -5.9% 3.2 24.3
Sold out ofheld last month, gone this month 6
ANTHEM BIOSCIENCES LIMITED 3,310,278 exited — 255 —
HDFC Life Insurance Co Ltd 2,323,077 exited — 134 —
IDFC First Bank Limited 14,934,430 exited — 119 —
EID Parry (India) Ltd 183,412 exited — 13.1 —
TREPS 01-Jul-2026 DEPO 10 1,351,252 exited — 1,351 —
TREPS VAL 01-Jul-2026 DEPO 10 1,000,000 exited — 1,000 —

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 Small Cap 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
Quant Small Cap Fund quant Mutual Fund · this scheme 18.1% 2.6% 0.88 20.2% 0.57 -67.0%
BANDHAN Small Cap Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 24.8% 9.2% 0.91 20.4% 0.90 -25.2%
ITI Small Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 25.1% 9.5% 0.88 19.9% 0.93 -40.0%
Invesco India Small Cap Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 23.2% 7.9% 0.85 19.6% 0.85 -37.7%
BANK OF INDIA SMALL CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 21.9% 5.6% 0.95 21.8% 0.71 -32.5%
Mahindra Manulife Small Cap Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 20.7% 5.3% 0.88 19.7% 0.72 -26.4%
Quant Small Cap Fund quant Mutual Fund 18.1% 2.6% 0.88 20.2% 0.57 -69.7%
LIC MF Small Cap Fund LIC Mutual Fund 18.8% 2.4% 0.95 21.7% 0.57 -27.2%
DSP Small Cap Fund DSP Mutual Fund 18.2% 2.0% 0.92 21.2% 0.55 -74.7%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty Smallcap 250. 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 Small Cap scheme is

At least 65% in companies ranked 251st and below.

The highest return and the highest pain in Indian equity. These companies are thinly traded, so a fund that grows too large struggles to buy and sell without moving the price — which is why good small-cap funds close to new money.

Who it suits. Only money that will not be needed for a decade, and only alongside steadier funds.

How long money should stay. 10 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Quant Small Cap Fund — Regular Plan — IDCW Option?

₹218.2931 as on 27 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 Quant Small 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 IDCW Option 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 65% in companies ranked 251st and below. The highest return and the highest pain in Indian equity. These companies are thinly traded, so a fund that grows too large struggles to buy and sell without moving the price — which is why good small-cap funds close to new money.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 10 years or more. Only money that will not be needed for a decade, and only alongside steadier funds.