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Axis Small Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth

Axis Mutual Fund · Equity · mandate: ≥65% in small-caps (beyond the top 250) · benchmark: NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI (TRI proxy)
AUM (all plans)
27,535 cr
TER direct / regular
0.77% / 1.71%
Active return /yr (full)
1.7%
Score
49
Rank (Score, pool)
#22 of 37
Percentile (full, pool)
42
IR vs benchmark
0.08
CAGR (absolute)
21.4%
Max drawdown
-30.2%
Months of data
152
Percentile ranks this fund within its peer pool; the leaderboard Score is the weighted average of its fiscal-year percentiles (equity: active-return-rank blended with IR-rank).

Cumulative active return

20192020202120222023202420252026-6516Cumulative active return vs benchmark, %
Growth of the fund relative to its benchmark: +10 means ₹100 in the fund is worth 10% more than ₹100 in the benchmark since the start of the line.

Equity curve

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026977241,352Fund (NAV=100)Benchmark: NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRICategory median (Small)

Drawdown

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026-30-150Drawdown %

Fiscal-year record

FYActive vs BMvs categoryIR%ileTEBenchmarkFund returnmonths
FY226.8%2.0%0.51678.0%35.6%42.4%12
FY238.4%-1.0%1.19546.6%-6.6%1.8%12
FY24-21.8%-6.1%-2.37236.5%63.0%41.1%12
FY256.9%4.1%0.65708.0%5.3%12.2%12
FY263.5%-0.4%0.68424.6%-5.3%-1.7%12
FY27*-1.9%-3.8%-0.72266.3%28.8%26.9%5
Active/Fund returns are TOTALS over the months covered — never annualized (FY27* is year-to-date; a * row covers only part of the year). %ile is the fund's percentile within its peer pool for that year.

Monthly active returns (%)

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
2019+1.8-1.3+1.9+2.4
2020+1.8+5.4+3.4-1.3-1.2-7.4-0.6-2.8+0.8+2.1-1.5-2.9-4.7
2021-1.4-4.4+3.5+0.3-2.7+0.5-1.3+4.7-2.3+0.4+2.3-0.9-1.5
2022+0.0+4.0-1.1-1.4+3.5+3.7-1.4-1.1+1.9-1.5-1.0+0.7+6.3
2023+1.6+1.8+1.1-2.4+0.7-0.9-4.3-1.7-1.7+1.4-2.6-2.6-9.5
2024-3.0+0.1+1.7-4.7+2.8-1.3-0.0-0.1+2.7-0.4+1.0+0.8-0.8
2025+3.3+2.6-1.4+0.2-2.5-1.2+1.8+0.6-0.2+0.0+1.7-0.9+3.9
2026+1.5+0.7+1.3-3.6-0.3+0.7+0.5+0.7+1.6
Fund monthly return minus benchmark; the year column compounds each separately and differences them.

Monthly returns (%)

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
2014-3.1+3.6+11.5+2.6+16.7+13.0+0.2+5.1+5.3+3.8+3.8+3.1+86.5
2015+2.7+0.7-0.4-1.5+1.8-0.7+7.1-5.8+1.4+1.3+1.1+3.1+10.9
2016-6.4-8.1+8.1+4.3+1.3+4.4+3.3+4.0-1.1+3.7-5.9-1.3+5.1
2017+4.0+3.8+4.7+3.2-1.3+3.1+3.2-1.7+0.5+6.3+4.2+4.4+39.8
2018-4.5+0.2-2.6+4.5-2.6-5.9+3.3+5.2-9.5-0.7+2.3+3.2-7.9
2019-2.8+0.3+5.7+0.6+5.6+0.0-5.7+5.1+4.8+4.2-0.4+2.4+20.8
2020+8.6-1.6-29.1+11.2-3.2+7.2+5.7+9.0+4.0+1.7+10.9+5.4+24.6
2021-0.5+7.9+4.3+4.8+7.3+6.1+6.8+1.8+3.4+0.5+1.9+4.4+60.7
2022-0.2-5.4+5.0-0.9-5.1-2.9+7.4+4.6+1.0+0.4+2.0-1.1+4.1
2023-0.8-1.7-0.5+4.4+6.2+5.4+3.4+3.5+0.8-0.4+7.6+3.3+35.6
2024+4.3-0.5-2.6+5.7+1.5+8.2+4.9+1.2+3.9-4.0+0.9+0.9+26.4
2025-7.4-10.0+7.6+1.8+7.1+4.6-1.8-3.0+0.9+3.7-1.6-1.2-1.0
2026-4.0+1.5-8.7+13.5+1.3+5.0+1.8+3.3+12.9

Quarterly average AUM & estimated net flows

201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025202616813,85227,535AUM (quarter avg), ₹cr
-3,3642,962
Quarterly net flow estimate: AUM_q − AUM_(q−1)·(1+quarter return). AUM shown is the quarter AVERAGE (AMFI central disclosure). Positive = net inflows, ₹cr.
Source: AMFI's official all-scheme NAV history (portal report; official NAV history, net of TER by construction). Monthly returns are month-end NAV chains; stale prints (>7 days before month-end) drop out rather than carry. Benchmark series are the median of plain-vanilla direct-plan index funds tracking each index (TRI minus ~10-25bp/yr tracking drag — verified against true-TRI chains). Direct plans, growth option only. Sharpe uses rf 6%, arithmetic monthly convention. Independence: all figures are computed from mandatory public disclosures with a fixed methodology applied identically to every fund — no fund can pay for inclusion, exclusion, placement, or altered presentation, and any material commercial relationship will be disclosed on the affected pages. Nothing here is investment advice; past performance does not predict future returns. Generated 2026-08-25 05:37Z · data through Aug 2026 · leaderboard · PMS leaderboard
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