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SBI BSE Sensex Index Fund

Option Growth IDCW
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Direct–Growth is the plan and option we treat as this fund's main page, so search engines are pointed there. Everything below is this filing's own data.

Fund basics

Launched first published NAV
CategoryIndex FundsSEBI classification
Plan & optionDirect · IDCW code 151770
BenchmarkNifty 100 used for alpha & beta below
NAV as on27 Aug 2026source AMFI

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

99.56%Equity
0.44%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

99.56%Large
Mid
Small
Large Cap 99.6%99.6%Large Cap 99.6%
AMFI's half-yearly ranking: 1–100 Large, 101–250 Mid, 251+ Small.

Concentration

Number of stocks30
Top 5 stocks45.31%
Top 10 stocks64.27%
Top 20 stocks86.43%
Largest single holding13.36%
Largest sectorBanks · 36.28%
Number of sectors17
Effective stocks16.8
Cash & equivalents0.44%

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 — 36.3%Petroleum Products — 9.6%IT - Software — 8.3%Telecom - Services — 6.2%Construction — 5.3%Diversified FMCG — 5.1%Automobiles — 5.0%Finance — 4.1%Power — 3.3%Other — 16.8%Banks36.3%Petroleum Products9.6%IT - Software8.3%Telecom - Services6.2%Construction5.3%Diversified FMCG5.1%Automobiles5.0%Finance4.1%Power3.3%Other16.8%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 64.3% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

HDFC Bank Ltd. 13.36%
ICICI Bank Ltd. 10.83%
Reliance Industries Ltd. 9.61%
Bharti Airtel Ltd. 6.19%
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 5.32%
State Bank of India 4.68%
Axis Bank Ltd. 4.23%
Infosys Ltd. 3.83%
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 3.18%
ITC Ltd. 3.04%
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 3.02%
Bajaj Finance Ltd. 2.95%

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 Index Funds 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
UTI Silver Exchange Traded Fund UTI Mutual Fund 46.5% 45.6% -0.13 35.2% 1.14 -43.3%
UTI - Gold Exchange Traded Fund UTI Mutual Fund 38.5% 17.3% -0.02 17.2% 1.86 -29.8%
ICICI Prudential NASDAQ 100 Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 31.3% 13.8% 0.56 23.4% 1.06 -30.0%
UTI Nifty 500 Value 50 Index Fund UTI Mutual Fund 25.0% 17.0% 1.20 19.8% 0.94 -22.6%
ICICI Prudential Nifty Auto Index Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 23.6% 13.4% 1.12 17.7% 0.97 -28.3%
Kotak Nifty Smallcap 50 Index Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 22.1% 15.5% 1.26 19.5% 0.80 -25.0%
Axis Nifty Smallcap 50 Index Fund Axis Mutual Fund 22.0% 9.2% 1.23 19.3% 0.80 -27.7%
Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty Smallcap 50 Index Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 21.9% 6.2% 1.18 20.0% 0.77 -36.7%

Alpha and beta are against Nifty 100. 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 Index Funds scheme is

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions.

No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

Who it suits. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.

How long money should stay. 5 years or more.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of SBI BSE Sensex Index Fund — Direct Plan — IDCW?

₹12.7007 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 SBI BSE Sensex Index 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 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?

Track an index, holding its constituents in its proportions. No manager, no stock picking, and an expense ratio a fraction of an active fund's. Over long periods that fee gap alone beats a majority of active large-cap funds — which is the strongest argument index funds have.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 5 years or more. Anybody who would rather have the market's return at the lowest cost than try to beat it.