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SBI Comma Fund

Q: What is the NAV of SBI Comma Fund?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of SBI Comma Fund is ₹66.69 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has SBI Comma Fund delivered?

SBI Comma Fund has returned +11.99% over 1 year, +17.49% per year over 3 years, +12.03% per year over 5 years and +7.75% 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 Comma Fund?

SBI Comma Fund charges an expense ratio of 2.30% 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 Comma Fund?

Its largest holdings are Tata Steel Ltd (7.0%), JSW Steel Ltd (5.3%), CESC Ltd (4.7%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (4.6%) and Gokaldas Exports Ltd (4.1%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is SBI Comma Fund?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 18.1% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -69.0%. 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 0.61 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. SBI Comma Fund's 0.61 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of SBI Comma Fund?

SBI Comma Fund is benchmarked against the NIFTY Commodities Total Return Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages SBI Comma Fund?

SBI Comma Fund is managed by Dinesh Balachandran and Pradeep Kesavan at SBI.

Q: How is SBI Comma Fund taxed?

SBI Comma Fund is an equity-oriented fund, so its capital gains get concessional rates: short-term gains (units held under 1 year) are taxed at 20%, and long-term gains (held 1 year or more) at 12.5% above a ₹1.25 lakh per-year exemption. These rates apply on redemption and don't add to your income-tax slab.

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NAV

₹66.69

+0.37% 1D

as of 20 Aug 2026

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Performance

+12.14%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹66.44

Latest ₹66.69

Low ₹57.5691st percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹67.61

Scorecard

★★★☆☆3/5 vs 143 of 247 Sectoral/ Thematic peers

Performance 60%
Risk 15%
Cost 10%
Downside 15%

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. The stars weight the same ground 60/15/10/15 (performance/risk/cost/downside) across every fund in the peer group. Ranked within Sectoral/ Thematic (same plan and option). 143 of the 247 Sectoral/ Thematic funds in this cohort carry the full record the stars need, so they are the ones ranked against.

PerformanceStrong

3Y CAGR +17.49% · ranks 26 of 247 Sectoral/ Thematic funds

RiskHigh

Volatility 18.1% vs 16.3% category avg

CostAverage

2.3% expense vs 2.4% category avg

ConsistencyModerate

73% 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

1-year return (+11.99%) beats the Sectoral/ Thematic average (+4.99%)
3-year return (+17.49%) beats the Sectoral/ Thematic average (+11.71%)
5-year return (+12.03%) beats the Sectoral/ Thematic average (+9.62%)
Ranks #48 of 247 on 1-year return in its Sectoral/ Thematic cohort
Stronger risk-adjusted returns — Sharpe 0.61 vs 0.23 Sectoral/ Thematic average

Concerns

Trails the Sectoral/ Thematic average on 1M/3M/6M
More volatile than its Sectoral/ Thematic peers (18.1% vs 16.3%)

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

Category 2.43%

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

Category 28.99

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

0.61

Category 0.23▲0.38

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Regular · IDCW

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

Exit Load

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)

+1.23%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

+0.55%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+3.07%

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

+6.26%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

+11.99%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+17.49%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+12.03%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+12.94%

Annualized return (CAGR) since the fund's inception

+7.75%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

18.07%

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

0.61

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

0.80

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-68.97%

Benchmark ratios (vs Nifty 500 · 36 monthly returns)

Definitions

Jensen's alpha (annualized): return above what CAPM predicts for the fund's beta vs Nifty 500

4.68%

Sensitivity to Nifty 500 moves; 1 = moves with the index

0.99

How much of the fund's movement Nifty 500 explains

81.7%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

10.19

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

0.70

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

7.13%

Fund's share of benchmark gains in up months (100 = matches index)

108.1%

Fund's share of benchmark losses in down months (lower is better)

84.2%

Computed vs the Nifty 500 price index — the closest match to this fund's mandate. Needs ~3 years of history; a low R² means the fund tracks the index loosely.

Fund vs category average (Sectoral/ Thematic)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	+1.23%	+2.17%	-0.94%
3M abs	+0.55%	+6.87%	-6.32%
6M abs	+3.07%	+5.68%	-2.61%
1Y CAGR	+11.99%	+4.99%	+7.00%
3Y CAGR	+17.49%	+11.71%	+5.78%
5Y CAGR	+12.03%	+9.62%	+2.41%

Category average across peers in Sectoral/ Thematic (up to 247 funds with data), 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.

Category rank

Vs 247 peers in Sectoral/ Thematic

1Y return

+11.99%

Beats 78.9% · rank #48

3Y return

+17.49%

Beats 82.4% · rank #26

5Y return

+12.03%

Beats 66.4% · rank #37

Sharpe

0.61

Beats 78.5% · rank #49

Sortino

0.80

Beats 78% · rank #50

Rolling returns

Return for every possible 1Y holding period, not just today’s

This fundNifty 500

Average

+12.4%

Median

+7.3%

Best

+109.8%

Worst

-64.4%

Positive periods

59.2%

233 overlapping 1Y windows, sampled monthly across the fund’s history.

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.

-69.0%04 Jan 2008 → 27 Oct 2008
Fell over 10 months, back to the old high on 20 Dec 2017 — 9.1 years under water after the low.
-51.1%12 Jan 2018 → 23 Mar 2020
Fell over 2.2 years, back to the old high on 24 Feb 2021 — 11 months under water after the low.
-37.5%02 May 2006 → 14 Jun 2006
Fell over 43 days, back to the old high on 13 Jul 2007 — 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.

Calendar-year returns

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

Year	Fund	Nifty 500	Diff
2026part	+6.44%	-1.50%	+7.94%
2025	+12.32%	+6.69%	+5.63%
2024	+10.48%	+15.16%	-4.68%
2023	+32.33%	+25.76%	+6.57%
2022	-6.56%	+3.02%	-9.58%
2021	+52.00%	+30.19%	+21.81%
2020	+23.87%	+16.67%	+7.20%
2019	+11.78%	+7.66%	+4.12%
2018	-31.72%	-3.38%	-28.34%
2017	+39.22%	+35.91%	+3.31%

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; those years show no benchmark comparison.

Fund size over time

Quarterly average AUM · AMFI

₹931.17Cr

April - June 2026

-0%

since January - March 2026

At or near its largest, ₹931.21Cr 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.

Backtest this fund

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

₹8.40L

Absolute

+40.01%

XIRR

+13.85%

Value vs. invested

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

History points

5,008

Expense ratio

AUM

Portfolio turnover

Exit load

P/E ratio

P/B ratio

Avg market cap

Taxation

Taxed as equity

This is an equity-oriented fund (≥65% in Indian equities), so gains get the concessional capital-gains rates below — they do not add to your income-tax slab.

Short-term (STCG)

20%

Held under 1 year

Flat, on the whole gain

Long-term (LTCG)

12.5%

Held 1 year or more

On gains above ₹1.25 L per financial year

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 · Sectoral/ Thematic

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SBI Comma FundThis fund SBI	★★★☆☆	+11.99%	+17.49%	+12.03%	16.18	2.30%	₹931.17Cr
Nippon India Taiwan Equity Fund Nippon India	★★★★☆	+145.04%	+56.91%	—	—	2.40%	₹1,110Cr
HDFC Defence Fund HDFC	★★★★☆	+31.40%	+39.99%	—	65.66	1.78%	₹9,371Cr
HDFC Transportation and Logistics Fund HDFC	★★★★★	+17.51%	+26.92%	—	37.61	2.13%	₹1,685Cr
LIC MF Infrastructure Fund LIC	★★★☆☆	+13.64%	+25.06%	+22.71%	15.39	2.68%	₹1,062Cr
SBI Healthcare Opportunities Fund SBI	★★★★★	+18.89%	+23.23%	+18.11%	55.62	2.00%	₹4,319Cr

Market-cap allocation · AMFI bands, Jul 2026

Equity holdings by company size — 100% of the equity sleeve priced.

Large cap38.6%
Mid cap24.4%
Small cap37.1%

🚩Holdings under NSE surveillance (ASM)

1 holding — 0.10% of the portfolio — sit in stocks NSE currently lists under its Additional Surveillance Measure. ASM is an exchange response to unusual price or volume activity (higher margins, and trade-for-trade settlement at stage II), not a view on the company or on this fund.

Vedanta Iron and Steel LimitedLong-term · Stage I0.10%

Source: NSE ASM list, matched to holdings by company name — a holding whose name differs from NSE's spelling may not be matched. BSE's separate list is not covered.

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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 Equity funds

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Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of SBI Comma Fund?

As of 20 Aug 2026, the NAV of SBI Comma Fund is ₹66.69 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has SBI Comma Fund delivered?

SBI Comma Fund has returned +11.99% over 1 year, +17.49% per year over 3 years, +12.03% per year over 5 years and +7.75% 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 Comma Fund?

SBI Comma Fund charges an expense ratio of 2.30% 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 Comma Fund?

Its largest holdings are Tata Steel Ltd (7.0%), JSW Steel Ltd (5.3%), CESC Ltd (4.7%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (4.6%) and Gokaldas Exports Ltd (4.1%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is SBI Comma Fund?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 18.1% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -69.0%. 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 0.61 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. SBI Comma Fund's 0.61 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of SBI Comma Fund?

SBI Comma Fund is benchmarked against the NIFTY Commodities Total Return Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages SBI Comma Fund?

SBI Comma Fund is managed by Dinesh Balachandran and Pradeep Kesavan at SBI.

How is SBI Comma Fund taxed?

SBI Comma Fund is an equity-oriented fund, so its capital gains get concessional rates: short-term gains (units held under 1 year) are taxed at 20%, and long-term gains (held 1 year or more) at 12.5% above a ₹1.25 lakh per-year exemption. These rates apply on redemption and don't add to your income-tax slab.