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Samco Multi Cap Fund

Option Growth
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Fund basics

Launched6 Nov 2024 2.0 years of history
CategoryMulti CapSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · Growth code 152847
BenchmarkNifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Oct 2026source AMFI

Computed from 448 published NAVs between 6 Nov 2024 and 28 Aug 2026 — 1.8 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
Samco Multi Cap Fund Direct 6.416.656.16 -0.75—— ——-4.25
Nifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25 benchmark 1.305.085.17 7.10—— ——1.44
Multi Cap category median · 27 funds ——— -1.7313.7811.61 —13.23—

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 Multi 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
Samco Multi Cap Fund Direct 13.12 -0.82 -1.04 0.62 -7.52 -20.06
Nifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25 benchmark 17.37 -0.29 -0.39 —— -19.96

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

Against its benchmark

Regressed on the 21 months this fund and Nifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25 (via HDFC Nifty500 Multicap Index Fund) both have. Alpha is Jensen's — the return left over after the market move this fund's own beta would predict.

AlphaBetaR²Fund vs indexUp captureDown captureTracking errorInformation ratioTreynor
-7.52%0.6272%-6.35%58%83%9.69%-0.65-15.21

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
13.1%10.4%-0.82-1.04

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

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-20.1%—-8.1%
0%-7%-15%-22%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.

Every one-year period it has lived through

Best yearMedian yearWorst yearLosing years
-0.4%-6.9%-13.1%100%
Worst-13.1%Median-6.9%Best-0.4%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

-6.9%20253.0%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

84.99%Equity
15.01%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

18.76%Large
19.19%Mid
37.17%Small
Large Cap 18.8%18.8%Mid Cap 19.2%19.2%Small Cap 37.2%37.2%Unclassified 9.9%9.9%Large Cap 18.8%Mid Cap 19.2%Small Cap 37.2%Unclassified 9.9%
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 stocks93
Top 5 stocks11.91%
Top 10 stocks20.30%
Top 20 stocks35.14%
Largest single holding4.27%
Largest sectorPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology · 9.92%
Number of sectors32
Effective stocks89.0
Cash & equivalents15.01%

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

Cash & Equivalents — 41.8%Banks — 6.3%Capital Markets — 6.1%Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology — 5.6%Electrical Equipment — 5.4%Industrial Products — 4.8%Consumer Durables — 3.6%Auto Components — 3.4%Other — 23.1%Cash & Equivalents41.8%Banks6.3%Capital Markets6.1%Pharmaceuticals & Biotech…5.6%Electrical Equipment5.4%Industrial Products4.8%Consumer Durables3.6%Auto Components3.4%Other23.1%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 58.8% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

Net Receivables / (Payables) 32.75%
Clearing Corporation of India Ltd 9.02%
National Stock Exchange Of India Ltd 4.27%
Lalithaa Jewellery Mart Ltd 2.16%
Solar Industries India Limited 1.94%
Laurus Labs Limited 1.82%
Bank of Maharashtra 1.72%
Bank of India 1.72%
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited 1.71%
National Aluminium Company Limited 1.69%
FSN E-Commerce Ventures Limited 1.65%
Divi's Laboratories Limited 1.62%

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 Multi Cap 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
Samco Multi Cap Fund Samco Mutual Fund · this scheme — -7.5% 0.62 13.1% -0.82 -20.1%
Axis Multicap Fund Axis Mutual Fund 21.6% 5.7% 0.94 15.8% 0.95 -18.1%
WhiteOak Capital Multi Cap Fund WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund — 7.6% 0.91 15.3% 0.91 -16.9%
LIC MF Multi Cap Fund LIC Mutual Fund 19.7% 4.9% 1.06 17.7% 0.75 -19.3%
BANK OF INDIA MULTI CAP FUND Bank of India Mutual Fund 20.0% 4.4% 0.96 16.3% 0.83 -20.3%
HSBC Multi Cap Fund HSBC Mutual Fund 20.7% 4.0% 1.02 17.4% 0.81 -20.1%
ITI Multi Cap Fund ITI Mutual Fund 19.1% 4.7% 1.07 17.4% 0.72 -38.7%
Mahindra Manulife Multi Cap Fund Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund 19.5% 5.9% 0.98 16.5% 0.79 -34.4%
Kotak Multi Cap Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 18.7% 2.2% 1.04 17.4% 0.70 -21.0%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 500 Multicap 50:25:25. 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 Multi Cap scheme is

At least 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory.

Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

Who it suits. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.

How long money should stay. 7 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of Samco Multi Cap Fund — Direct Plan — Growth?

₹9.0200 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 Samco Multi 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 25% each in large, mid and small caps — the split is mandatory. Flexi cap's disciplined cousin. SEBI forces a real allocation to mid and small caps, so it cannot quietly become a large-cap fund in a nervous market. More small-cap exposure than most investors realise.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 7 years or more. Investors who want guaranteed exposure across the whole market rather than a manager's changing view.