DebtGilt FundRegularIDCWModerate

SBI Gilt Fund

Q: What is the NAV of SBI Gilt Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of SBI Gilt Fund is ₹21.33 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has SBI Gilt Fund delivered?

SBI Gilt Fund has returned +2.83% over 1 year, +6.04% per year over 3 years, +5.70% per year over 5 years and +3.75% per year since inception. Figures beyond one year are annualised (CAGR) and are computed from AMFI NAV history, so they may differ slightly from other portals.

Q: What is the expense ratio of SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.00% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

Q: What are the top holdings of SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund's largest holdings are 7.71% CGL 2066 (23.2%), 91 DAY T-BILL 05.11.26 (12.1%), 91 DAY T-BILL 12.11.26 (11.8%), 7.55% State Government of Maharashtra 2034 (8.6%) and 7.28% State Government of Andhra Pradesh 2032 (6.6%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund is rated moderate on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 2.7% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -17.3%. Higher volatility means the NAV swings more; the drawdown shows how far it has fallen from a peak historically.

Q: What does the Sharpe ratio of -0.17 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. SBI Gilt Fund's -0.17 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

Q: Who manages SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund is managed by Sudhir Agrawal at SBI.

Q: How is SBI Gilt Fund taxed?

SBI Gilt Fund is a debt / non-equity fund. Since April 2023 there is no long-term or indexation benefit — capital gains are added to your income and taxed at your income-tax slab rate regardless of how long you held the units.

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NAV

₹21.33

+0.02% 1D

as of 05 Oct 2026

This is the Regular plan of SBI Gilt Fund — bought through a distributor, whose commission is paid out of its expense ratio. Income is distributed, which is why this NAV sits below the growth plan of the same fund.

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NAV history

+2.71%absolute

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹21.33

Latest ₹21.33

Low ₹20.6182nd percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹21.49

Scorecard

Not rated

How this is computed

Each verdict is computed from this fund's own metrics against its sub-category — the number behind it is shown, not a black-box rating. Not rated — too few comparable Debt funds (same plan and option) to rank against yet.

Performance—

Not enough Gilt Fund peers to rank yet

Risk—

Volatility 2.7% (no category average yet)

Cost—

1.0% expense (no category average yet)

ConsistencyHigh

91% of rolling 3Y windows were positive

Strengths & concerns

Generated from this fund's own numbers against its sub-category — each point names the figure behind it.

Strengths

Consistent — positive in 91% of rolling 3-year windows

Concerns

No significant concerns identified.

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

1.00%

Category —

Portfolio-weighted harmonic mean P/E across the fund's equity holdings

—

Category —

Excess return per unit of total volatility (rf = 6.5%)

-0.17

Category —

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · IDCW

Period before units can be redeemed — 3 years for ELSS, none for most open-ended funds

None

Exit Load

None

Statutory levy on every mutual-fund purchase since 1 Jul 2020 (SEBI / Govt of India) — the same for every scheme

0.005%

SIP Inv.

—

Smallest recurring SIP instalment the scheme accepts

—

Smallest one-time (lumpsum) investment the scheme accepts

—

Benchmark

—

Start of our NAV history for this plan. Direct plans begin 1 Jan 2013, so this is the plan's inception — not necessarily the scheme's original launch date.

03 Apr 2006

Period returns (<1Y, absolute — not annualized)

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

+0.01%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

-0.38%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+3.47%

Absolute return since 1 Jan of this year (not annualized)

+2.75%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

1-year point-to-point return, annualized (CAGR)

+2.83%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+6.04%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+5.70%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+4.89%

Annualized return (CAGR) since the first NAV we hold for this plan — the Inception date under Key metrics. AMFI's history starts in April 2006, so an older scheme is measured from there.

+3.75%

Advanced metrics — risk

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

2.67%

Excess return per unit of total volatility (rf = 6.5%)

-0.17

Excess return per unit of downside deviation — upside swings aren't penalized (rf = 6.5%)

-0.24

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-17.29%

Benchmark ratios

Not shown for Gilt Fund — a debt, arbitrage or cash-like fund isn't measured against an equity index, so alpha/beta vs one would be noise rather than signal.

Fund vs category average (Gilt Fund)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	+0.01%	—	—
3M abs	-0.38%	—	—
6M abs	+3.47%	—	—
1Y CAGR	+2.83%	—	—
3Y CAGR	+6.04%	—	—
5Y CAGR	+5.70%	—	—

Category average across peers in Gilt Fund, same plan and option, excluding this fund. Under-1-year figures are absolute; 1Y and beyond are annualised (CAGR).

Not sure what a figure means? The glossary explains every metric, and the methodology shows the formulas.

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What a SIP or one-time investment would have grown to over this fund’s real NAV history.

Monthly investment (₹)

Period

Invested

₹6.00L

Current value

₹6.88L

Absolute

+14.74%

XIRR

+5.62%

Value vs. invested

ValueInvested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into SBI Gilt Fund, valued at the latest NAV. XIRR annualizes for each installment’s timing.

Calendar-year returns

What the fund actually returned in each year, not the smoothed average.

Year	Fund
2026part	+2.75%
2025	+4.55%
2024	+8.92%
2023	+7.61%
2022	+4.24%
2021	+2.99%
2020	+11.71%
2019	+6.71%
2018	+0.41%
2017	-2.07%

January–December, from this fund's NAV history. Absolute return, not annualised. “part” marks a year the fund didn't run end to end — its first year, the current year so far, or one it stopped reporting in.

History points

4,975

Expense ratio

1.00%

AUM

₹8,746Cr

YTM (from holdings)

6.78%

Average maturity

13.50 years

Exit load

Nil

Taxation

Taxed as debt

This is a debt / non-equity fund. Since April 2023 there is no long-term or indexation benefit — every rupee of gain is added to your income and taxed at your income-tax slab rate, whatever the holding period.

Any holding period

30%

Short- and long-term alike

Your income-tax slab — no LTCG or indexation benefit

Your income-tax slab

Pick your slab to see the rate that applies to you.

Applies to capital gains on redemption. Excludes IDCW/dividend tax, STT, surcharge and cess, and pre-2018 equity grandfathering. For research only — consult a tax advisor before filing.

Peer comparison · Gilt Fund

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SBI Gilt FundThis fund SBI · Regular · IDCW	—	+2.83%	+6.04%	+5.70%	—	1.00%	₹8,746Cr
Bandhan Gilt Fund Bandhan · Regular · Periodic IDCW	—	+6.62%	+7.37%	+5.78%	—	—	₹8.93L
Bandhan Gilt Fund Bandhan · Regular · IDCW	—	+6.62%	+7.37%	+5.78%	—	1.20%	₹1,970Cr
UTI - Gilt Fund - Regular Plan - Discontinued PF UTI · Regular · Discontinued · IDCW	—	+4.01%	+6.16%	+5.20%	—	—	₹14.02Cr
SBI Gilt Fund SBI · Regular · IDCW	—	+2.83%	+6.04%	+5.70%	—	1.00%	₹8,746Cr
SBI Gilt Fund SBI · Regular · IDCW	—	+2.83%	+6.04%	+4.95%	—	1.00%	₹8,746Cr

Asset allocation

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

Debt82.27%
Cash & Equivalents17.73%

Cash & cash-like: 31.59% — the 17.73% above plus treasury bills, certificates of deposit, commercial paper and TREPS, which the allocation files under Debt but the market counts as cash-equivalent.

Debt & cash (15)

bonds, treasury bills, CDs, commercial paper and cash

As on 31 Aug 2026 · AMC disclosure

7.71% CGL 2066

23.16%

91 DAY T-BILL 05.11.26

12.06%

91 DAY T-BILL 12.11.26

11.81%

7.55% State Government of Maharashtra 2034

8.62%

7.28% State Government of Andhra Pradesh 2032

6.56%

91 DAY T-BILL 19.11.26

6.02%

7.79% State Government of West Bengal 2045

4.16%

7.43% CGL 2076

3.79%

7.66% State Government of Kerala 2039

2.00%

7.86% State Government of Bihar 2039

1.85%

Worst falls, and the wait to get back

How far this fund has dropped from a high, and how long it took to reclaim it.

-17.3%02 Jan 2009 → 03 Sep 2009
Fell over 8 months, back to the old high on 03 Nov 2014 — 5.2 years under water after the low.
-8.7%21 Jun 2017 → 11 Sep 2018
Fell over 15 months, back to the old high on 18 Jun 2019 — 9 months under water after the low.
-5.3%04 Mar 2015 → 29 Jun 2015
Fell over 4 months, back to the old high on 21 Jul 2016 — 13 months under water after the low.

Measured on this fund’s own NAV history, peak to trough to the day it regained the peak. Falls shallower than 5% are left out. A recovery date is when the NAV got back, not when any particular investor did — that depends on when they bought.

Fund size over time

Quarterly average AUM · AMFI

₹8,746Cr

April - June 2026

-15%

since January - March 2026

−₹1,630Cr

est. net flow, last quarter

Down +15% from its peak of ₹10,324Cr in January - March 2026. Size matters most where the mandate is narrow — a large small-cap or a very large flexi-cap book is harder to move without moving the price.

Net flow is an estimate: AMFI publishes a quarterly average AUM, not a closing balance, and it covers every plan and option of this scheme together, so it is a read on direction and rough size rather than a cash-flow statement.

AMC Profile

SBI Mutual Fund is a joint venture between the State Bank of India and Amundi of France, and was set up in 1987 as the first fund house in India outside UTI. It is the largest by assets, helped by managing a share of the EPFO's ETF investments.

Launched

28 Jun 1987

Total AUM

₹12,57,352Cr+0.7% QoQ

Avg AUM · April - June 2026

Website

sbimf.com

Fund Managers

SASudhir AgrawalStart date not disclosed

Role

Fund Manager

Education

M.Com., PGDBA, CFA

Experience

Mr. Sudhir Agrawal joined SBIFML on May 05, 2025. He has an overall 19 years of experience in the area of financial services. Prior to joining SBIFML, he was associated with following entities wherein he was primarily involved in Fund Management / Financial analysis: • UTI Asset Management Company Limited - (July 2009 to April 2025) • Tata Asset Management Company Limited - (November 2007 to June 2009) • Transparent Value LLC - (January 2006 to October 2007) • CARE Limited - (May 2005 to December 2005) He is also managing SBI Magnum Low Duration Fund, SBI Dynamic Bond Fund, SBI Magnum Gilt Fund, SBI Magnum Ultra Short Duration Fund and

Funds managed (4)

All schemes Sudhir Agrawal runs →

Fund manager, benchmark and dealing terms from this scheme's SEBI-filed Scheme Information Document on AMFI. Each manager's qualifications and role are reconciled across every filing this fund house makes for them, including its Statement of Additional Information. Total AUM via AMFI.

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Fund managers

Sudhir Agrawal

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Returns and risk are computed from NAV history and may differ slightly from other portals due to methodology (rolling vs point-to-point, dividend treatment). For research only — not investment advice.

About Gilt funds

Gilt funds lend only to the government, so they carry no credit risk. Their prices do move with interest rates, though — they can swing when rate expectations change.

Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of SBI Gilt Fund?

As of 05 Oct 2026, the NAV of SBI Gilt Fund is ₹21.33 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has SBI Gilt Fund delivered?

SBI Gilt Fund has returned +2.83% over 1 year, +6.04% per year over 3 years, +5.70% per year over 5 years and +3.75% per year since inception. Figures beyond one year are annualised (CAGR) and are computed from AMFI NAV history, so they may differ slightly from other portals.

What is the expense ratio of SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund charges an expense ratio of 1.00% per year. This annual fee is already deducted from the NAV, so the returns you see are net of it.

What are the top holdings of SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund's largest holdings are 7.71% CGL 2066 (23.2%), 91 DAY T-BILL 05.11.26 (12.1%), 91 DAY T-BILL 12.11.26 (11.8%), 7.55% State Government of Maharashtra 2034 (8.6%) and 7.28% State Government of Andhra Pradesh 2032 (6.6%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund is rated moderate on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 2.7% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -17.3%. Higher volatility means the NAV swings more; the drawdown shows how far it has fallen from a peak historically.

What does the Sharpe ratio of -0.17 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. SBI Gilt Fund's -0.17 means it has not compensated investors for its volatility over the window. Higher is better.

Who manages SBI Gilt Fund?

SBI Gilt Fund is managed by Sudhir Agrawal at SBI.

How is SBI Gilt Fund taxed?

SBI Gilt Fund is a debt / non-equity fund. Since April 2023 there is no long-term or indexation benefit — capital gains are added to your income and taxed at your income-tax slab rate regardless of how long you held the units.