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HDFC Small Cap Fund - Growth Option - Direct Plan

HDFC Mutual Fund · Equity · mandate: ≥65% in small-caps (beyond the top 250) · benchmark: NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI (TRI proxy)
AUM (all plans)
38,667 cr
TER direct / regular
0.76% / 1.55%
Active return /yr (full)
1.1%
Score
40
Rank (Score, pool)
#30 of 37
Percentile (full, pool)
35
IR vs benchmark
0.05
CAGR (absolute)
20.8%
Max drawdown
-44.5%
Months of data
146
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

20192020202120222023202420252026-9112Cumulative 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

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026101469837Fund (NAV=100)Benchmark: NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRICategory median (Small)

Drawdown

2014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026-45-220Drawdown %

Fiscal-year record

FYActive vs BMvs categoryIR%ileTEBenchmarkFund returnmonths
FY220.0%-4.7%-0.01235.5%35.6%35.7%12
FY2319.9%10.4%5.63963.4%-6.6%13.3%12
FY24-13.9%1.8%-2.12484.5%63.0%49.1%12
FY25-1.3%-4.1%-0.3776.3%5.3%4.0%12
FY263.7%-0.2%0.59406.2%-5.3%-1.6%12
FY27*-10.1%-12.1%-2.3719.1%28.8%18.7%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
2019-1.1-2.9-1.0-4.9
2020-2.1+0.1+1.9-1.4-1.1-0.2-0.4-0.8-1.2-0.8+0.6+0.4-4.8
2021-0.5+0.5+0.4-0.5+0.8+3.1-1.1+1.5+0.0-0.4-0.4-0.1+3.4
2022-0.6+1.1-3.5+1.5+1.7+2.9+1.0+1.0+1.5-0.4+0.9+1.4+8.7
2023+1.7+3.1+2.8-2.1+1.3-0.9-0.3-1.6-1.6-0.4-2.2-1.5-2.0
2024-1.6-0.4+1.9-3.3-0.9-1.8+0.3+0.6-1.2+2.2+0.4-0.6-4.5
2025+2.2+2.1-2.3-0.2+0.3-1.4+4.1+2.2-0.7-0.6+1.3-1.4+5.4
2026+2.4-0.7-1.5-5.8-0.8-1.1+1.3-2.6-8.6
Fund monthly return minus benchmark; the year column compounds each separately and differences them.

Monthly returns (%)

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
2014+1.2+4.5+4.2+3.5+4.2+2.8+22.1
2015+1.0-1.0-0.3-1.0+1.5-0.5+6.4-4.8+0.5+2.0+2.3+1.8+7.8
2016-7.6-11.2+13.0+3.0+3.2+4.6+5.2+4.1+0.1+3.0-6.0-2.4+6.8
2017+5.2+5.1+5.9+7.0+0.3+1.9+4.0-1.4+1.6+9.3+6.0+5.3+62.6
2018-1.0+0.2-3.3+8.7-3.8-6.1+3.3+3.7-9.5-0.0+0.7+1.4-6.7
2019-2.1-1.8+9.5-3.4+2.5-3.9-10.0-1.4+4.3+1.3-1.9-0.6-8.5
2020+4.6-6.9-30.5+11.2-3.1+14.4+5.8+11.0+2.0-1.2+13.1+8.7+21.4
2021+0.4+12.8+1.1+4.0+10.8+8.7+7.0-1.4+5.8-0.3-0.8+5.2+66.5
2022-0.9-8.3+2.6+2.0-6.9-3.8+9.8+6.7+0.7+1.5+4.0-0.4+5.6
2023-0.7-0.5+1.3+4.8+6.9+5.4+7.4+3.5+0.9-2.1+8.0+4.4+46.2
2024+5.7-1.0-2.4+7.2-2.2+7.7+5.3+1.9+0.0-1.5+0.2-0.5+21.5
2025-8.5-10.5+6.7+1.4+9.9+4.3+0.5-1.4+0.4+3.1-2.0-1.7+0.3
2026-3.2+0.1-11.5+11.3+0.8+3.2+2.5-0.0+1.8

Quarterly average AUM & estimated net flows

201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025202631819,49338,667AUM (quarter avg), ₹cr
-4,2464,368
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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