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HDFC Banking & Financial Services Fund

Direct Plan · Growth Option · HDFC Mutual Fund

Risk: Very High Risk ★★★★★ Morningstar
52W Low ₹16.48 30 Mar 2026 52W High ₹19.87 18 Feb 2026
₹18.4310 NAV as of 4 Nov 2026 +0.88% day change
ISININF179KC1BG0
Scheme Code148986
StructureOpen Ended Schemes
Fund HouseHDFC Asset Management Company Limited
AUM (avg. July - September 2026)₹1,383.34 Cr
Expense Ratio (as of 21 Oct 2026)0.96%
Min. Investment₹5,000
Inception Date11 Jun 2021
BenchmarkNIFTY Financial Services Index (Total Returns Index)
Portfolio Turnover18.50%
NFO PeriodJune 11, 2021 – June 25, 2021

Returns

1Y -1.71%
3Y +11.61%
5Y +10.43%
Since Inception +12.31%

Annualised (CAGR) returns for periods over a year.

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Rank in Category

PeriodThis FundCategory Avg.Rank
1W +3.74% +3.52% 142 of 255
1M +1.49% +1.97% 162 of 255
3M -5.47% -3.45% 204 of 252
6M -0.64% +2.92% 182 of 251
YTD -4.63% +1.21% 196 of 255
1Y -1.71% +1.11% 142 of 232
2Y +6.00% +2.39% 108 of 187
3Y +11.61% +12.36% 123 of 142
5Y +10.43% +9.81% 77 of 102
INCEPTION +12.31% — —

Ranked among: Equity Scheme - Sectoral/ Thematic.

Rolling Returns

PeriodAverageBestWorstPositive PeriodsConsistency
3M +3.30% +25.78% -14.58% 65% 26%
6M +6.59% +33.38% -17.76% 77% 32%
1Y +15.41% +40.29% -5.78% 95% 42%
2Y +16.49% +33.96% +2.29% 100% 45%
3Y +16.84% +26.08% +10.75% 100% 46%
5Y +12.54% +14.77% +9.01% 100% 45%

Rolling returns show the average, best and worst outcome an investor would have seen entering at any point in the window.

NAV History

AUM Trend (₹ Cr, quarterly average)

Expense Ratio Trend

Portfolio · Sep 2026

Asset Allocation

  • Equity99.41%
  • Debt0.00%
  • Cash0.59%
  • Other0.00%

Market Cap Split

  • Large Cap69.81%
  • Mid Cap12.22%
  • Small Cap17.38%
  • Others0.59%

Fundamentals

FundCategory
P/E17.2717.84
P/B2.172.31
Price / Sales3.483.91
Dividend Yield (%)1.191.13
Holdings37
Top 5 Stocks49.18%
Top 10 Stocks66.15%
Top 3 Sectors90.24%

Holdings · Sep 2026

HoldingSectorWeightChange (1M)
ICICI Bank Banks 13.85% -0.53%
HDFC Bank Banks 12.89% +0.71%
Kotak Bank Banks 8.61% +0.44%
Axis Bank Banks 7.76% +0.00%
State Bank of India Banks 6.07% -0.26%
Shriram Finance Finance 4.22% -0.28%
Bajaj Finance Finance 3.96% -0.15%
SBI Life Insurance Insurance 3.72% +0.12%
Five Star Business Finance Finance 2.67% +0.06%
AU Small Finance Bank Banks 2.40% -0.03%
Karur Vysya Bank Banks 1.91% -0.02%
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Insurance 1.89% +0.14%
Home First Finance Company Finance 1.71% +0.00%
Angel One Capital Markets 1.67% +0.02%
Groww Capital Markets 1.66% +0.02%
View all 39 holdings
Equitas Small Finance Bank Banks 1.63% -0.02%
LIC of India Insurance 1.61% +0.00%
PNB Housing Finance Finance 1.61% +0.05%
Can Fin Homes Finance 1.40% -0.06%
Max Financial Services Insurance 1.40% -0.11%
Bandhan Bank Banks 1.37% +0.18%
Poonawalla Fincorp Finance 1.35% +0.02%
Tata Capital Finance 1.26% -0.07%
M&M Financial Services Finance 1.17% -0.10%
ICICI Prudential Asset Management Capital Markets 1.16% +0.09%
SBI Funds Management Capital Markets 1.16% -0.07%
Fusion Finance Finance 1.12% -0.09%
360 One WAM Capital Markets 1.07% -0.08%
Indusind Bank Banks 1.02% -0.06%
OnEMI Technology Solutions Finance 1.01% +0.22%
National Stock Exchange of India Capital Markets 0.99% —
Indian Bank Banks 0.76% -0.04%
PB FinTech Financial Technology (Fintech) 0.76% -0.51%
Credit Access Grameen Finance 0.73% -0.01%
TREPS - Tri-party Repo Reverse Repo / TREPS 0.71% —
BSE Capital Markets 0.70% +0.17%
HDFC Life Insurance Insurance 0.59% +0.01%
Repco Home Finance Finance 0.55% +0.00%
Net Current Assets Net Current Assets -0.12% —

Sector Allocation · Sep 2026

Risk Metrics

Standard Deviation

PeriodFundCategory
1Y 17.47 16.32 High Volatility
3Y 15.99 16.10 Low Volatility
5Y 16.32 15.67 High Volatility
What is this?

Annualized population standard deviation of daily denomination-adjusted NAV returns, multiplied by sqrt(252). Values require a full timeframe of NAV history.

Sharpe Ratio

PeriodFundCategory
1Y -0.36 -0.32 Below Average
3Y 0.38 -0.45 Above Average
5Y 0.33 0.29 Above Average
What is this?

Annualized Sharpe ratio calculated from month-end NAV returns using the latest available FBIL Overnight MIBOR rate as the risk-free rate. For schemes with less than three years of history, the 3Y value uses since-inception data. Applied risk-free rate: 5.73% (published 2026-10-28).

Sortino Ratio

PeriodFundCategory
1Y -0.02 0.19 Below Average
3Y 1.11 1.14 Below Average
5Y 0.98 0.96 Above Average
What is this?

Annualized from daily NAV returns using a 0.00% minimum acceptable return; downside deviation includes only returns below this target.

Beta

PeriodFundCategory
1Y 1.04 1.02 Poor Risk Adjusted Returns
3Y 1.00 0.98 Poor Risk Adjusted Returns
5Y 0.99 1.01 Good Risk Adjusted Returns
What is this?

This 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.

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HDFC Gold ETF
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+16.82% +30.99% +23.25% +12.15%
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+16.53% +30.86% +23.07% +10.47%
HDFC INNOVATION FUND
Direct Plan · IDCW Option
+13.31% — — +14.01%
HDFC CRISIL-IBX Financial Services 3-6 Months Debt Index Fund
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+6.94% — — +6.95%
HDFC Arbitrage Fund
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About This Scheme

Investment Objective

To provide long-term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in equity and equity related instruments of companies engaged in banking and financial services.There is no assurance that the investment objective of the Scheme will be achieved.

Stated Asset Allocation

Equity and equity related instruments of banking and financial services companies/entities: 80% -100% Equity and Equity related instruments of companies/entities other than above: 0%- 20% Gold and Silver instruments: 0%- 20% Units of InvITs: 0%- 10% Money market instruments, Other liquid instruments and Units of Mutual Fund^^ 0%- 20% ^^Units of Domestic Mutual Funds shall only include Overnight Funds, Liquid Funds and Money Market Mutual Funds. Further other liquid instruments shall include cash, bank deposits with Scheduled Commercial Banks, Government Securities, Treasury bills, Repo on Government securities and any other instruments as specified by SEBI from time to time. For detailed asset allocation, refer Scheme Information Document (SID) available on the website.

Exit Load

In respect of each purchase/switch in of units- an Exit load of 1% is payable if units are redeemed/switched out within 30 days from the date of allotment. No Exit Load is payable if units are redeemed/switched-out after 30 days from the date of allotment.

Fund Managers

FM 1 - Mr.Anand Laddha, FM 2 - Mr.Gopal Agrawal, FM 3 - Mr. Bhagyesh Kagalkar

FM 1 - Fund Manager of the scheme, FM 2 - Fund Manager for Overseas Investments, FM 3 - Fund Manager for investments in Gold/Silver instruments

Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks. Read all scheme related documents carefully. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Data is sourced from AMFI and fund houses via FinAPI and may lag official figures.

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