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Kotak Contra Fund

Q: What is the NAV of Kotak Contra Fund?

As of 21 Aug 2026, the NAV of Kotak Contra Fund is ₹66.09 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

Q: What returns has Kotak Contra Fund delivered?

Kotak Contra Fund has returned +3.93% over 1 year, +17.64% per year over 3 years, +16.25% per year over 5 years and +10.07% 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 Kotak Contra Fund?

Kotak Contra Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.77% 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 Kotak Contra Fund?

Its largest holdings are ICICI Bank Ltd (5.5%), HDFC Bank Ltd (5.3%), State Bank of India (3.4%), Reliance Industries Ltd (2.9%) and Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd (2.8%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

Q: How risky is Kotak Contra Fund?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 14.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -46.7%. 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 0.77 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Kotak Contra Fund's 0.77 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

Q: What is the benchmark of Kotak Contra Fund?

Kotak Contra Fund is benchmarked against the NIFTY 500 Total Return Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Q: Who manages Kotak Contra Fund?

Kotak Contra Fund is managed by Shibani Sircar Kurian at Kotak Mahindra.

Q: How is Kotak Contra Fund taxed?

Kotak Contra 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.

Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund · Best Contra Mutual Funds

This is the Direct plan of Kotak Contra Fund — bought from the fund house, with no distributor commission in its expense ratio. Income is distributed and reinvested in more units, which is why this NAV sits below the growth plan of the same fund.

NAV

₹66.09

+0.03% 1D

as of 21 Aug 2026

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Performance

+3.96%CAGR

52-week rangePrev NAV ₹66.07

Latest ₹66.09

Low ₹57.7091st percentile of its 52-week rangeHigh ₹66.87

Scorecard

★★★★☆4/5 vs 460 Equity 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 against all Equity funds (same plan and option) — too few funds in its own sub-category to rank within it.

Performance—

Not enough Contra Fund peers to rank yet

Risk—

Volatility 14.5% (no category average yet)

Cost—

0.8% expense (no category average yet)

ConsistencyModerate

89% of rolling 3Y windows were positive

Key Metrics

Annual fee charged by the fund, already deducted from NAV

Category —

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

Category —

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

0.77

Category —

Scheme Info

Definitions

Plan

Direct · 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.

07 Jan 2013

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

Definitions

Absolute return over the last 1 month (not annualized)

+0.48%

Absolute return over the last 3 months (not annualized)

+5.96%

Absolute return over the last 6 months (not annualized)

+0.34%

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

-0.61%

Annualized returns (≥1Y — CAGR)

Definitions

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

+3.93%

3-year annualized return (CAGR)

+17.64%

5-year annualized return (CAGR)

+16.25%

10-year annualized return (CAGR)

+12.25%

Annualized return (CAGR) since the fund's inception

+10.07%

Advanced metrics — risk and benchmark ratios

Risk (trailing 3Y)

Definitions

Annualized standard deviation of daily returns

14.52%

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

0.77

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

1.04

Largest peak-to-trough decline over full history

-46.72%

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

5.11%

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

1.00

How much of the fund's movement Nifty 500 explains

95.9%

Excess return per unit of beta (market risk)

10.83

Active return over the benchmark per unit of tracking error

1.80

Annualized std dev of fund-minus-benchmark returns

3.17%

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

114.8%

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

91.1%

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 (Contra Fund)

Period	Fund	Category avg.	Diff
1M abs	+0.48%	—	—
3M abs	+5.96%	—	—
6M abs	+0.34%	—	—
1Y CAGR	+3.93%	—	—
3Y CAGR	+17.64%	—	—
5Y CAGR	+16.25%	—	—

Category average across peers in Contra Fund (up to 3 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.

Rolling returns

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

This fundNifty 500

Average

+12.4%

Median

+7.4%

Best

+64.0%

Worst

-28.8%

Positive periods

75.7%

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

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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

₹8.70L

Absolute

+45.06%

XIRR

+15.34%

Value vs. invested

60 monthly installments of ₹10,000 into Kotak Contra 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	Nifty 500	Diff
2026part	-0.23%	-1.43%	+1.20%
2025	+8.82%	+6.69%	+2.13%
2024	+23.74%	+15.16%	+8.58%
2023	+36.86%	+25.76%	+11.10%
2022	+8.88%	+3.02%	+5.86%
2021	+31.94%	+30.19%	+1.75%
2020	+9.94%	+16.67%	-6.73%
2019	+0.41%	+7.66%	-7.25%
2018	-15.47%	-3.38%	-12.09%
2017	+33.89%	+35.91%	-2.02%

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.

History points

3,352

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 · Contra Fund

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Kotak Contra FundThis fund Kotak Mahindra	★★★★☆ CAT	+3.93%	+17.64%	+16.25%	20.60	0.77%	₹5,331Cr
SBI Contra Fund SBI	★★★★☆ CAT	-0.01%	+13.38%	+17.53%	16.51	0.83%	₹45,949Cr
Invesco India Contra Fund Invesco	★★★☆☆ CAT	-8.81%	+12.69%	+10.97%	26.61	0.77%	₹19,492Cr
Motilal Oswal Contra Fund Motilal Oswal	—	—	—	—	27.32	2.34%	₹98.62Cr
Kotak Contra Fund Kotak Mahindra	★★★★☆ CAT	+3.94%	+17.64%	+16.25%	20.60	0.79%	₹5,086Cr
Invesco India Contra Fund Invesco	★★★★☆ CAT	+2.07%	+17.00%	+15.20%	26.61	0.77%	₹19,492Cr

Market-cap allocation · AMFI bands, Jul 2026

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

Large cap56.0%
Mid cap31.0%
Small cap13.0%

🚩Holdings under NSE surveillance (ASM)

1 holding — 1.43% 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.

Astra Microwave Products LimitedLong-term · Stage I1.43%

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.

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.

-46.7%23 Jan 2018 → 23 Mar 2020
Fell over 2.2 years, back to the old high on 08 Feb 2021 — 11 months under water after the low.
-24.9%23 Jan 2014 → 04 Feb 2014
Fell over 12 days, back to the old high on 11 Nov 2014 — 9 months under water after the low.
-22.0%03 Mar 2015 → 25 Feb 2016
Fell over 12 months, back to the old high on 06 Sep 2016 — 6 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.

Kotak Mahindra in the news

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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 Contra funds

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Frequently asked questions

What is the NAV of Kotak Contra Fund?

As of 21 Aug 2026, the NAV of Kotak Contra Fund is ₹66.09 per unit. NAV (net asset value) is the fund's per-unit price, published once each business day.

What returns has Kotak Contra Fund delivered?

Kotak Contra Fund has returned +3.93% over 1 year, +17.64% per year over 3 years, +16.25% per year over 5 years and +10.07% 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 Kotak Contra Fund?

Kotak Contra Fund charges an expense ratio of 0.77% 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 Kotak Contra Fund?

Its largest holdings are ICICI Bank Ltd (5.5%), HDFC Bank Ltd (5.3%), State Bank of India (3.4%), Reliance Industries Ltd (2.9%) and Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd (2.8%). Holdings are disclosed monthly and change over time.

How risky is Kotak Contra Fund?

It is rated very high on SEBI's risk-o-meter, its trailing-3Y volatility (annualised) is 14.5% and its worst peak-to-trough fall in our sample was -46.7%. 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 0.77 mean?

The Sharpe ratio is return earned per unit of total risk, above a 6.5% risk-free rate. Kotak Contra Fund's 0.77 means it has rewarded its volatility with excess return. Higher is better.

What is the benchmark of Kotak Contra Fund?

Kotak Contra Fund is benchmarked against the NIFTY 500 Total Return Index. Its alpha and beta on this page are measured against that index.

Who manages Kotak Contra Fund?

Kotak Contra Fund is managed by Shibani Sircar Kurian at Kotak Mahindra.

How is Kotak Contra Fund taxed?

Kotak Contra 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.