Sundaram Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth

Regular

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.
Direct

Regular and Direct options of the funds are exactly same except commission to your mutual fund broker/distributor. As an investor you do not need to pay any additional fees to purchase any of these options. However both have different expense ratios. Regular funds have higher expense ratio and direct funds have lower expense ratio. This difference is because of commission paid to broker/distributor. Lower expense ratio leads to higher returns for investors.

Category : Focused Fund

Fund House : PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund

NAV

This number shows latest NAV (Net Asset Value) and change in the NAV from previous day. NAV is nothing but the unit price for the fund. You will be allocated number of units based on this price. NAV is declared once each day generally at the end of the day. Once you invest in mutual funds, your money is further invested in stocks and bonds by mutual fund managers. Mutual Fund NAV is the per unit latest value of all such stocks/bonds held in the portfolio

: ₹ 180.8015 0.4%
(as on 17th October, 2025)

Crisil Rating

Average performance among peers

Fund Size

: ₹ 1072.73 Cr

(0.66% of Investment in Category)

Expense Ratio

: 1.3%

(0.83% Category average)

Risk-O-Meter

Very High Risk

Focused Fund :Focused Fund : The fund has 91.45% investment in domestic equities of which 45.5% is in Large Cap stocks, 16.22% is in Mid Cap stocks, 7.47% in Small Cap stocks.

Suitable For : Investors who have advanced knowledge of macro trends and prefer to take selective bets for higher returns compared to other Equity funds. At the same time, these investors should also be ready for possibility of moderate to high losses in their investments even though overall market is performing better.

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Returns (NAV as on 17th October, 2025)

Period Invested for	₹10000 Invested on	Latest Value	Absolute Returns	Annualised Returns	Category Avg	Rank within Category
1 Week	10-Oct-25	10158.20	1.58%	-	1.05%	6/28
1 Month	17-Sep-25	10047.40	0.47%	-	0.50%	18/28
3 Month	17-Jul-25	10111.70	1.12%	-	1.45%	15/28
6 Month	17-Apr-25	10834.40	8.34%	-	9.76%	20/28
YTD	01-Jan-25	10204.80	2.05%	-	5.40%	21/28
1 Year	17-Oct-24	9905.20	-0.95%	-0.95%	1.80%	22/28
2 Year	17-Oct-23	13311.90	33.12%	15.35%	18.66%	22/27
3 Year	17-Oct-22	15677.20	56.77%	16.15%	18.57%	20/26
5 Year	17-Oct-20	25010.60	150.11%	20.11%	21.24%	13/22
10 Year	17-Oct-15	38119.70	281.20%	14.31%	14.89%	10/14
Since Inception	01-Jan-13	58304.30	483.04%	14.77%	16.97%	19/27

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SIP Returns (NAV as on 17th October, 2025)

Period Invested for	₹1000 SIP Started on	Investments	Latest Value	Absolute Returns	Annualised Returns
1 Year	17-Oct-24	12000	12529.71	4.41 %	8.26 %
2 Year	17-Oct-23	24000	26327.21	9.7 %	9.16 %
3 Year	17-Oct-22	36000	44082.44	22.45 %	13.59 %
5 Year	17-Oct-20	60000	86012.52	43.35 %	14.37 %
10 Year	17-Oct-15	120000	272683.1	127.24 %	15.66 %

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Tax Treatment

If sold after 1 year from purchase date, long term capital gain tax will be applicable. Current tax rate is 12.5%, if your total long term capital gain exceeds 1.25 lakh. Any cess/surcharge is not included. If sold before 1 year from purchase date, short term capital gain tax will be applicable. Current tax rate is 20%. Any cess/surcharge is not included in the 20%.

Portfolio (Updated on 30th Sep,2025)

Portfolio Turnover Ratio : 82.00% | Category average turnover ratio is 82.86%

Fund manager updated portfolio less frequently than peers in last 1 year. (I.e. fund manager held stocks/bonds in the portfolio for longer duration than peers)

Equity Holding : 91.45% | F&O Holdings : 0.00%| Foreign Equity Holdings : 0.00%| Total : 91.45%

No of Stocks : 26 (Category Avg - 27.93) | Large Cap Investments : 45.5%| Mid Cap Investments : 16.22% | Small Cap Investments : 7.47% | Other : 22.26%

Top 10 Stocks in Portfolio

How to read this table?

Stock Invested in	Sector	Value(Mn)	% of Total Holdings	1M Change	1Y Highest Holding	1Y Lowest Holding	Quantity
HDFC Bank Ltd.	Private sector bank	999.4	9.32%	0.02%	10.01% (Apr 2025)	8.64% (Oct 2024)	10.51 L
ICICI Bank Ltd.	Private sector bank	938.3	8.75%	-0.30%	9.39% (Apr 2025)	7.11% (Dec 2024)	6.96 L
Bharti Airtel Ltd.	Telecom - cellular & fixed line services	648.1	6.04%	-0.02%	6.23% (Jun 2025)	4.96% (Dec 2024)	3.45 L
TVS Motor Company Ltd.	2/3 wheelers	576.4	5.37%	0.27%	5.37% (Sep 2025)	0% (Oct 2024)	1.68 L
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.	Private sector bank	525.6	4.90%	0.09%	5.51% (Apr 2025)	2.99% (Oct 2024)	2.64 L
Craftsman Automation Ltd.	Auto components & equipments	514.1	4.79%	-0.07%	4.86% (Aug 2025)	0% (Oct 2024)	75.68 k
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.	Refineries & marketing	475.5	4.43%	0.42%	4.43% (Sep 2025)	0% (Oct 2024)	14.00 L
Infosys Ltd.	Computers - software & consulting	461.2	4.30%	-0.07%	5.66% (Jan 2025)	3.24% (Oct 2024)	3.20 L
Avenue Supermarts Ltd.	Diversified retail	429.4	4.00%	-0.24%	4.24% (Aug 2025)	0% (Oct 2024)	95.95 k
Happy Forgings Ltd.	Castings & forgings	360.7	3.36%	0.07%	3.54% (May 2025)	0% (Oct 2024)	3.93 L

- indicates change in weight in the portfolio. # indicates a new entry.

Detailed Portfolio Analysis

Name	Type of Instrument	Weight (%)
TREPS	TREPS	6.67%
Net Receivables	Net Receivables	1.87%

Detailed Portfolio Analysis

Risk Ratios

Ratios calculated on daily returns for last 3 years (Updated as on 30th September, 2025)

Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation value gives an idea about how volatile fund returns has been in the past 3 years. Lower value indicates more predictable performance. So if you are comparing 2 funds (lets say Fund A and Fund B) in the same category. If Fund A and Fund B has given 9% returns in last 3 years, but Fund A standard deviation value is lower than Fund B. So you can say that there is a higher chance that Fund A will continue giving similar returns in future also whereas Fund B returns may vary.

Low volatility

10.96vs11.46

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Beta
Beta value gives idea about how volatile fund performance has been compared to similar funds in the market. Lower beta implies the fund gives more predictable performance compared to similar funds in the market. So if you are comparing 2 funds (lets say Fund A and Fund B) in the same category. If Fund A and Fund B has given 9% returns in last 3 years, but Fund A beta value is lower than Fund B. So you can say that there is a higher chance that Fund A will continue giving similar returns in future also whereas Fund B returns may vary.

Low volatility

0.9vs0.92

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Sharpe Ratio
Sharpe ratio indicates how much risk was taken to generate the returns. Higher the value means, fund has been able to give better returns for the amount of risk taken. It is calculated by subtracting the risk-free return, defined as an Indian Government Bond, from the fund's returns, and then dividing by the standard deviation of returns. For example, if fund A and fund B both have 3-year returns of 15%, and fund A has a Sharpe ratio of 1.40 and fund B has a Sharpe ratio of 1.25, you can chooses fund A, as it has given higher risk-adjusted return.

Poor risk adjusted returns

0.74vs0.88

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Treynor's Ratio
Treynor's ratio indicates how much excess return was generated for each unit of risk taken. Higher the value means, fund has been able to give better returns for the amount of risk taken. It is calculated by subtracting the risk-free return, defined as an Indian Government Bond, from the fund's returns, and then dividing by the beta of returns. For example, if fund A and fund B both have 3-year returns of 15%, and fund A has a Treynor's ratio of 1.40 and fund B has a Treynor's ratio of 1.25, then you can chooses fund A, as it has given higher risk-adjusted return.

Poor risk adjusted returns

0.09vs0.11

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Jensen's Alpha
Alpha indicates how fund generated additional returns compared to a benchmark. Let's say if a fund A benchmarks its returns with Nifty50 returns then alpha equal to 1.0 indicates the fund has beaten the nifty returns by 1%, so the higher the alpha, the better.

Poor risk adjusted returns

-1.15vs0.53

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Alternative Funds (Category Peers)

Scheme Name	Crisil Rank	Asset Size (Cr)	1M	3M	6M	1Y	3Y
HDFC Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	5	23532.98	1.18	3.92	10.19	10.84	24.99
ICICI Prudential Focused Equity Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	5	12909.18	0.93	3.72	12.19	9.15	25.61
SBI Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	4	38916.82	1.22	3.21	10.53	9.13	17.61
Kotak Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	3696.84	2.47	5.57	15.24	7.66	19.38
Canara Robeco Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	4	2749.07	1.10	4.14	12.72	7.06	20.54
ITI Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	536.47	1.21	1.11	11.81	4.42	0.00
Axis Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	2	12256.85	0.97	2.90	8.91	4.04	13.09
Aditya Birla Sun Life Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	4	7648.87	1.32	2.08	9.76	3.23	18.31
Union Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	2	419.20	-1.25	2.29	11.61	2.94	14.92
Mirae Asset Focused Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	1	7769.11	-0.51	0.49	11.27	2.53	14.32

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Scheme Name	Crisil Rank	Asset Size (Cr)	1M	3M	6M	1Y	3Y
Sundaram Mid Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	4	12585.11	0.02	1.38	13.65	2.06	24.99
Sundaram Liquid Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	7481.60	0.48	1.43	3.03	6.87	7.11
Sundaram Aggressive Hybrid Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	6944.38	1.10	1.54	6.88	3.27	14.82
Sundaram Large and Mid Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	2	6740.02	1.07	2.34	10.36	1.86	18.44
Sundaram Services Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	4425.86	0.95	0.88	10.24	7.47	20.53
Sundaram Small Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	3340.55	-0.91	-1.85	13.40	-1.49	22.22
Sundaram Large Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	1	3279.53	0.90	1.27	6.54	1.41	14.84
Sundaram Multi Cap Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	2	2828.73	0.58	1.54	12.09	3.27	19.44
Sundaram Multi Asset Allocation Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	NA	2798.62	4.83	8.11	12.90	16.53	0.00
Sundaram Ultra Short Duration Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	3	2111.91	0.54	1.49	3.40	7.54	7.52