Principal Small Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth Option (defunct)

Principal Mutual Fund · Equity · mandate: ≥65% in small-caps (beyond the top 250) · benchmark: NIFTY Smallcap 250 TRI (TRI proxy)

AUM (all plans)

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Active return /yr (full)

21.9%

Score

Rank (Score, pool)

#10 of 37

Percentile (full, pool)

IR vs benchmark

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CAGR (absolute)

80.6%

Max drawdown

-28.7%

Months of data

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

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

Drawdown

Fiscal-year record

FY	Active vs BM	vs category	IR	%ile	TE	Benchmark	Fund return	months
FY22*	14.4%	11.1%	1.90	85	6.8%	41.4%	55.8%	9
FY23	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
FY24	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
FY25	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
FY26	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
FY27*	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0

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 (%)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
2019										+1.7	+0.7	-0.5	+2.0
2020	+1.5	+5.0	+5.2	-0.1	+1.8	-3.4	+1.9	-3.6	+1.4	+0.1	-0.3	-1.2	+8.0
2021	+0.7	-2.8	+1.6	+1.1	+0.5	-0.1	-1.7	+4.4	+1.0	+2.9	+2.8	-1.1	+9.4

Fund monthly return minus benchmark; the year column compounds each separately and differences them.

Monthly returns (%)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
2019						-0.3	-7.4	-1.7	+5.4	+4.1	+1.7	+0.0	+1.2
2020	+8.2	-2.0	-27.3	+12.5	-0.2	+11.1	+8.1	+8.2	+4.6	-0.3	+12.2	+7.0	+40.9
2021	+1.6	+9.4	+2.3	+5.6	+10.5	+5.4	+6.4	+1.5	+6.8	+3.0	+2.3	+4.2	+77.3

Quarterly average AUM & estimated net flows

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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