Franklin India Small Cap Fund - Direct - Growth is an equity scheme managed by Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund. Over rolling three-year windows since inception, investors earned a median compounded return of 28.54%, with the bottom and top quartiles at 21.92% and 33.87% respectively. It has ranked in the top half of its category for 1 of the last 2 reported years. The total expense ratio is 0.99% on assets of ₹13,850Cr. The fund is currently managed by Sandeep Manam, appointed within the last year.
Lower is better.
This scheme classifies as Large-Blend on the 3x3 equity style box, with 69% of its portfolio classified as of 2026-05-29.
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| Window | Min | P25 | Median |
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Point-in-time CAGRs cherry-pick a single start date. The chart below shows the distribution of every possible rolling start over the fund's history, so you see the range of investor outcomes — not just one date's number.
Backtested SIP outcomes across both rolling-window scenarios and named historical stress events (COVID, Election uncertainty, Russia/Ukraine, etc.), plus per-manager alpha during their tenure on this scheme.
Same fund, monthly SIPs over rolling 1/3/5-year windows.
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In-house derivations using 3-year daily NAV vs benchmark. See methodology.
| Weight |
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| SYRMA SGS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED | Technology | 2.45% |
| MTAR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | Industrials | 2.41% |
| EQUITAS SMALL FINANCE BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 2.32% |
| KAJARIA CERAMICS LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 2.27% |
| BRIGADE ENTERPRISES LIMITED | Real Estate | 2.21% |
| ERIS LIFESCIENCES LIMITED | Healthcare | 2.13% |
| PNB HOUSING FINANCE LTD | Financial Services | 2.05% |
| KIRLOSKAR OIL ENGINES LIMITED | Industrials | 2.01% |
| ASTER DM HEALTHCARE LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.99% |
| CESC LIMITED | Utilities | 1.81% |
| DEEPAK NITRITE LIMITED | Basic Materials | 1.74% |
| DCB BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 1.64% |
| CROMPTON GREAVES CONSUMER ELECTRICALS LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.58% |
| SOBHA LIMITED | Real Estate | 1.57% |
| ZENSAR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | Technology | 1.55% |
| DATA PATTERNS (INDIA) LIMITED | Industrials | 1.54% |
| CCL PRODUCTS (INDIA) LIMITED | Consumer Defensive | 1.51% |
| MEDPLUS HEALTH SERVICES LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.49% |
| KALYAN JEWELLERS INDIA LIMITED | Consumer Cyclical | 1.48% |
| RBL BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 1.45% |
| METROPOLIS HEALTHCARE LIMITED | Healthcare | 1.42% |
| AXIS BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 1.38% |
| Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd | Industrials | 1.36% |
| HDFC BANK LIMITED | Financial Services | 1.32% |
| TATA STEEL LIMITED | Basic Materials | 1.30% |
| Sector | Holdings | Weight |
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| Financial Services | 9 | 17.24% |
| Capital Goods | — | 16.25% |
| Automobile and Auto Components | — | 8.71% |
| Consumer Durables | — | 8.25% |
| Healthcare | 7 | 7.87% |
| Consumer Services | — | 7.14% |
| Chemicals | — | 5.87% |
| Information Technology | — | 4.06% |
| Realty | — | 3.78% |
| Fast Moving Consumer Goods | — | 3.55% |
Active bets vs the average Equity fund. Biggest deviations shown first.
Accent bar = fund's actual sector weight. Vertical black tick = category average for the same sector. Green overlay = overweight, dashed red = underweight. The biggest active bets show first.
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| 1Y | -11.94% | 3.78% | 26.36% | 52.94% | 109.43% | 84.0% |
| 3Y | 15.52% | 21.92% | 28.54% | 33.87% | 44.38% | 100.0% |
| 5Y | 17.48% | 21.00% | 25.80% | 30.74% | 37.44% | 100.0% |
Each cell is one year. Q1 = top quartile within the AMFI category for that period. Cell label is the last two digits of the year.
Top-10 weight 21.6% means the portfolio is broad — even the top names don't dominate. Effective-N is the inverse Herfindahl index — a measure of "how many positions effectively drive the fund" after weighting. Category: Equity.
Compounding maths on a notional ₹10 lakh lumpsum at 12% gross annual return. Green bar is what you'd have without the fee; red overlay is the fee drag. Fee is constant in this scenario — actual outcomes depend on real returns and any future TER changes.
What an investor SIPping into this fund actually got during named market shocks.
Each row is a back-tested SIP — monthly contribution over the regime's duration, no fees adjustment beyond NAV-baked TER. XIRR is the annualised IRR of those cashflows; Abs return is the absolute cash-on-cash; Max DD is the deepest drawdown experienced mid-investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Alpha is the annualised excess return vs benchmark over the manager's tenure on this scheme. Beat-benchmark = total return beat the index over the same window.
Does the fund get worse as it gets bigger? Each dot is one historical manager-tenure: AUM at tenure-end vs alpha delivered during that tenure.
Correlation is too weak to confirm or rule out capacity-driven alpha decay. Re-evaluate as more manager-tenure data accumulates.
Each dot is one manager-tenure: X = AUM at tenure end, Y = alpha during that tenure. Connecting line in chronological order. Pearson r measures the linear relationship between AUM and alpha across the historical record. n = 3 data points.