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HDFC NIFTY Smallcap 250 ETF

Other Scheme - Other ETFs Regular plan, growth benchmark: NIFTY Smallcap 250 Index (TRI) launched 30 Jan 2023 open-ended

At a glance

the fund as it stands today, from public disclosures

NAV, 21 Sep 2026
₹184.36
−0.05% since 18 Sep 2026, the previous NAV
1 year
5.6%
return
3 years
15.2%
a year
5 years
not enough history
Since launch
22.6%
a year, over 3.6 years
Assets (AUM)
₹2,674 Cr
Aug 2026 factsheet
Expense ratio, Direct / Regular
0.00% / 0.26%
a year, as of Aug 2026
Holdings
none disclosed
Disclosed history
— – — · 2 of 11 checks could run
Fund managers
not parsed from the factsheets yet

As the Aug 2026 factsheet printed it: portfolio turnover 0.66×. Exit load and minimum investment are not yet extracted from the scheme documents.

What only Anveshan can tell you

measured from the disclosures, not quoted from a brochure — each links to how it was done

P5Cost, measured

Cannot be measured: needs both a Direct and a Regular growth class.

The Regular and Direct plans hold the same portfolio; the Regular one pays a distributor out of your money every day. The gap between the two NAVs is that cost, measured from the NAVs rather than quoted from a document.

See how it is measured →
P7Whose record

Not known yet: no factsheet named a manager for this fund.

How long the people running it now have been running it, read from the monthly factsheets. A five-year record earned under someone else is not evidence about these managers.

See what is missing →
NAVTracking gap

Not replicated: the portfolio cannot be priced line by line in this build.

Each day, the NAV the fund published against the NAV its last disclosed portfolio would have produced at that day's prices. A gap that opens and stays is a change the fund has made and not disclosed yet.

See the daily gap →
P4Consistency

Beat its category in 100% of three-year stretches, and averaged +6.7 points a year across all of them

8 rolling windows since 2023 · ahead by 6.7 points a year when it won — and never lost one. A single five-year figure depends on the day you look; the share of stretches won does not — and the average margin says whether winning often was worth anything.

See every window →

headline and record disagree 2 checks found the headline number and the underlying record pointing different ways — marked on the cards below.

NAV and drawdown

Regular plan, growth class · as of 21 Sep 2026

Month-end NAV, indexed to 100 at Feb 2023

100150200Feb 2023Jan 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Sep 2026Feb 2023: NAV ₹89.33Mar 2023: NAV ₹87.95Apr 2023: NAV ₹93.94May 2023: NAV ₹99.17Jun 2023: NAV ₹105.46Jul 2023: NAV ₹113.68Aug 2023: NAV ₹119.61Sep 2023: NAV ₹122.62Oct 2023: NAV ₹120.53Nov 2023: NAV ₹132.91Dec 2023: NAV ₹140.80Jan 2024: NAV ₹151.04Feb 2024: NAV ₹150.14Mar 2024: NAV ₹143.69Apr 2024: NAV ₹158.73May 2024: NAV ₹156.69Jun 2024: NAV ₹171.63Jul 2024: NAV ₹180.20Aug 2024: NAV ₹182.64Sep 2024: NAV ₹184.82Oct 2024: NAV ₹178.18Nov 2024: NAV ₹177.87Dec 2024: NAV ₹178.23Jan 2025: NAV ₹159.16Feb 2025: NAV ₹139.09Mar 2025: NAV ₹151.60Apr 2025: NAV ₹154.16May 2025: NAV ₹168.99Jun 2025: NAV ₹178.72Jul 2025: NAV ₹172.31Aug 2025: NAV ₹166.12Sep 2025: NAV ₹167.95Oct 2025: NAV ₹174.20Nov 2025: NAV ₹168.43Dec 2025: NAV ₹167.92Jan 2026: NAV ₹158.65Feb 2026: NAV ₹159.91Mar 2026: NAV ₹143.76Apr 2026: NAV ₹168.31May 2026: NAV ₹170.98Jun 2026: NAV ₹178.35Jul 2026: NAV ₹180.58Aug 2026: NAV ₹185.26Sep 2026: NAV ₹184.36
100150200Feb 2023Jan 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Sep 2026Feb 2023: NAV ₹89.33Mar 2023: NAV ₹87.95Apr 2023: NAV ₹93.94May 2023: NAV ₹99.17Jun 2023: NAV ₹105.46Jul 2023: NAV ₹113.68Aug 2023: NAV ₹119.61Sep 2023: NAV ₹122.62Oct 2023: NAV ₹120.53Nov 2023: NAV ₹132.91Dec 2023: NAV ₹140.80Jan 2024: NAV ₹151.04Feb 2024: NAV ₹150.14Mar 2024: NAV ₹143.69Apr 2024: NAV ₹158.73May 2024: NAV ₹156.69Jun 2024: NAV ₹171.63Jul 2024: NAV ₹180.20Aug 2024: NAV ₹182.64Sep 2024: NAV ₹184.82Oct 2024: NAV ₹178.18Nov 2024: NAV ₹177.87Dec 2024: NAV ₹178.23Jan 2025: NAV ₹159.16Feb 2025: NAV ₹139.09Mar 2025: NAV ₹151.60Apr 2025: NAV ₹154.16May 2025: NAV ₹168.99Jun 2025: NAV ₹178.72Jul 2025: NAV ₹172.31Aug 2025: NAV ₹166.12Sep 2025: NAV ₹167.95Oct 2025: NAV ₹174.20Nov 2025: NAV ₹168.43Dec 2025: NAV ₹167.92Jan 2026: NAV ₹158.65Feb 2026: NAV ₹159.91Mar 2026: NAV ₹143.76Apr 2026: NAV ₹168.31May 2026: NAV ₹170.98Jun 2026: NAV ₹178.35Jul 2026: NAV ₹180.58Aug 2026: NAV ₹185.26Sep 2026: NAV ₹184.36
100150200Feb 2023Jan 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Sep 2026Feb 2023: NAV ₹89.33Mar 2023: NAV ₹87.95Apr 2023: NAV ₹93.94May 2023: NAV ₹99.17Jun 2023: NAV ₹105.46Jul 2023: NAV ₹113.68Aug 2023: NAV ₹119.61Sep 2023: NAV ₹122.62Oct 2023: NAV ₹120.53Nov 2023: NAV ₹132.91Dec 2023: NAV ₹140.80Jan 2024: NAV ₹151.04Feb 2024: NAV ₹150.14Mar 2024: NAV ₹143.69Apr 2024: NAV ₹158.73May 2024: NAV ₹156.69Jun 2024: NAV ₹171.63Jul 2024: NAV ₹180.20Aug 2024: NAV ₹182.64Sep 2024: NAV ₹184.82Oct 2024: NAV ₹178.18Nov 2024: NAV ₹177.87Dec 2024: NAV ₹178.23Jan 2025: NAV ₹159.16Feb 2025: NAV ₹139.09Mar 2025: NAV ₹151.60Apr 2025: NAV ₹154.16May 2025: NAV ₹168.99Jun 2025: NAV ₹178.72Jul 2025: NAV ₹172.31Aug 2025: NAV ₹166.12Sep 2025: NAV ₹167.95Oct 2025: NAV ₹174.20Nov 2025: NAV ₹168.43Dec 2025: NAV ₹167.92Jan 2026: NAV ₹158.65Feb 2026: NAV ₹159.91Mar 2026: NAV ₹143.76Apr 2026: NAV ₹168.31May 2026: NAV ₹170.98Jun 2026: NAV ₹178.35Jul 2026: NAV ₹180.58Aug 2026: NAV ₹185.26Sep 2026: NAV ₹184.36

44 month-ends · ₹89.33 → ₹184.36, 2.1× since Feb 2023

Deepest fall (max drawdown)
−26.1%
23 Sep 2024 → 3 Mar 2025
Worst month
−12.6%
Feb 2025
Days to recover
not yet recovered
from the deepest trough back to the old high

Drawdown is measured on the last year of daily NAV; trailing returns are CAGR of the regular growth class. A single end date decides them — the consistency card (P4) below is the record that does not, and it reports both how often the fund beat its category and by how much, because the first without the second can point the wrong way.

Holdings

— disclosure · 0 lines · when each was first held and the change over the last three disclosures

#HoldingSectorWeightFirst heldHeld for3-mo change
No holdings disclosed in this build.

Largest sectors, latest disclosure

Not yet computable. Sector labels come from the disclosures; none were mapped for this fund.

By market cap, latest disclosure

Not yet computable. Needs cap tiers for every holding.

The seven checks, in full

each: the plain claim, where it sits in the category, and — folded — how it is measured and the case against. A flag fires only where headline and record disagree.

P4 Consistency, not a single end date headline and record disagree

Beat its category in 100% of three-year stretches, and averaged +6.7 points a year across all of them

8 rolling windows since 2023 · ahead by 6.7 points a year when it won — and never lost one

What this means. Take every three-year stretch since the fund had a NAV, one starting each month, and ask two things of each: did it beat the typical fund in its category, and by how much. Counting the wins tells you the record does not depend on when you happen to look; averaging the margin tells you whether winning often was worth anything, because four small wins do not pay for one large loss.

How often, and by how much. The count and the average agree. It did not lose one of the 8, so the average across all of them is the average win, +6.7 points.

windows measured8windows won8average across every window+6.75 pts a year · median +6.50when ahead, by how much+6.75 pts a year over 8 windowsworst window+4.87 pts a year, ended Aug 2026best window+8.70 pts a year, ended Apr 2026non-overlapping windows in that span1 — the rolling count overlaps, this does not
Thin record. Only 8 rolling windows — under six years of NAV. The share is shown because it was measured; it is a start, not a record, and does not qualify for the home shelf until 36 windows exist.

Fund minus category, each rolling three-year window

-8.7 pp0.0 pp+8.7 ppFeb 2026: fund 21.4% vs category 15.8% (3-year CAGR)Mar 2026: fund 17.8% vs category 11.1% (3-year CAGR)Apr 2026: fund 21.5% vs category 12.8% (3-year CAGR)May 2026: fund 19.9% vs category 11.7% (3-year CAGR)Jun 2026: fund 19.1% vs category 10.9% (3-year CAGR)Jul 2026: fund 16.7% vs category 10.4% (3-year CAGR)Aug 2026: fund 15.7% vs category 10.8% (3-year CAGR)Sep 2026: fund 14.6% vs category 9.2% (3-year CAGR)Feb 2026Jun 2026Sep 2026
-8.7 pp0.0 pp+8.7 ppFeb 2026: fund 21.4% vs category 15.8% (3-year CAGR)Mar 2026: fund 17.8% vs category 11.1% (3-year CAGR)Apr 2026: fund 21.5% vs category 12.8% (3-year CAGR)May 2026: fund 19.9% vs category 11.7% (3-year CAGR)Jun 2026: fund 19.1% vs category 10.9% (3-year CAGR)Jul 2026: fund 16.7% vs category 10.4% (3-year CAGR)Aug 2026: fund 15.7% vs category 10.8% (3-year CAGR)Sep 2026: fund 14.6% vs category 9.2% (3-year CAGR)Feb 2026Jun 2026Sep 2026
-8.7 pp0.0 pp+8.7 ppFeb 2026: fund 21.4% vs category 15.8% (3-year CAGR)Mar 2026: fund 17.8% vs category 11.1% (3-year CAGR)Apr 2026: fund 21.5% vs category 12.8% (3-year CAGR)May 2026: fund 19.9% vs category 11.7% (3-year CAGR)Jun 2026: fund 19.1% vs category 10.9% (3-year CAGR)Jul 2026: fund 16.7% vs category 10.4% (3-year CAGR)Aug 2026: fund 15.7% vs category 10.8% (3-year CAGR)Sep 2026: fund 14.6% vs category 9.2% (3-year CAGR)Feb 2026Jun 2026Sep 2026
ahead of categorybehind

Each bar is one window's margin in percentage points a year. The height of the bars, not the count of green ones, is what the average across every window measures.

A modest five-year number over a record that beat its category 100% of the time. Rolling every three-year window forward month by month gives hundreds of overlapping observations instead of one. This fund was ahead of its category median in 100% of them, which points the opposite way to the headline figure. A single end date decided that headline.
How it is measured, and the case against

A fund that beats its category in most rolling three-year windows has a record; one that beats it in a few has an end date. How often it won and by how much are different questions, and this card answers both, because a fund can win four windows in five and still be behind across all five.

How often has it beaten its category, across every window?

Why this might matterRolling every three-year window forward month by month gives hundreds of overlapping observations instead of one. A single end date decides a headline five-year figure; the share of windows won cannot be flattered by when you happen to look. The average margin across every window is that share and the payoff multiplied together — win share x average beat plus loss share x average shortfall is exactly the average — so a high share bought with a few ruinous windows cannot hide behind the count.
Why it might notRolling windows overlap heavily, so they are not independent observations and the true sample is far smaller than the count suggests.
P5 Cost, measured
Not measurable yet. Needs a Direct and a Regular growth class with overlapping NAV history.

What this means. The Regular and Direct plans hold the same portfolio; the Regular one pays a distributor out of your money every day. The gap between the two NAVs is that cost, measured from the NAVs rather than quoted from a document.

How it is measured, and the case against

The Direct plan is the same portfolio, priced differently; the divergence of the two NAVs is the cost, measured rather than quoted.

What does the Regular plan actually cost against its Direct twin?

Why this might matterSame manager, same holdings, same day. The gap between the two NAV series is the one number on this page that is knowable today rather than hoped for, and it compounds for as long as the units are held.
Why it might notA Regular plan buys advice. If that advice stops someone selling in a drawdown it can be worth more than the fee — the cost is visible and the behavioural saving is not, which makes this comparison unfair in exactly one direction.
P1 Churn, and what it bought
Not measurable yet. Needs at least two consecutive monthly disclosures.

What this means. How much of the portfolio was bought and sold in a year, computed from what the fund disclosed each month. Trading costs something certain; the extra return it is meant to buy is not.

How it is measured, and the case against

Turnover measured from consecutive disclosures — Σ|Δweight|/2 — costs something certain; the excess return it is meant to buy is not.

Is the trading paying for itself?

Why this might matterAMCs define their own turnover figure inconsistently. This one is computed from what the fund disclosed month to month, so two funds are comparable on it. Read it beside the excess return per unit of turnover.
Why it might notTurnover computed from month-end snapshots misses everything bought and sold inside a month, and a fund forced to sell by redemptions is charged for churn it did not choose.
P2 Conviction or inertia
Not measurable yet. Needs the holdings history for this fund; not computed yet.

What this means. How long a typical top-10 position has been in the top ten. Long-held positions are a decision; a top ten that changes every quarter is a reaction.

How it is measured, and the case against

The median months a top-10 position has been held separates a portfolio somebody chose from one that drifted.

How long does a top-10 position stay a top-10 position?

Why this might matterConcentration is how a manager expresses conviction, and persistence is how long they keep it. Long-held positions with a rising weight are a decision; a top ten that turns over every quarter is a reaction.
Why it might notPersistence without active share is inertia: a portfolio of 166 names that tracks its category closely has diversified away the reason to pay for it. Active share needs index constituent files, which are not loaded yet.
P3 Hit rate of the top ten
Not measurable yet. Detector not yet written: needs each disclosure's top ten joined to six months of forward prices. Holdings and prices are in hand.

What this means. Take each month's ten largest holdings and check whether each one beat the typical stock its category holds over the next six months, and by how much. A blended return can hide two wins and eight losses; a count of wins can hide one position that lost half its value.

How it is measured, and the case against

A manager's largest bets, judged one by one over the following six months, say more than the fund's blended return — and how far each one beat or missed the median stock says more than counting how many did.

Of its top-10 positions, how often did they beat the category-median stock?

Why this might matterA fund can beat its category on two positions and lose on eight; the hit rate shows the pattern the aggregate hides. The average margin then shows what the hit rate hides in turn: six winners worth a point each do not pay for four losers worth ten, and only the margin says which happened.
Why it might notSix months is short, sizing matters more than counting, and a manager who is right on the biggest position and wrong on nine small ones has done their job — the margins here are unweighted, so they answer the counting question better, not the sizing one. Overlapping disclosures judge the same position again each month it is held, so one long-held winner is counted many times. And this is a description of six months already past, not a forecast of the next six.
P6 Size against edge

₹2,674 Cr; 99% of growth came from inflows

Regular plan expense ratio 0.26% a year

What this means. Where the fund sits by size in its category, and how much of its growth was money arriving rather than the portfolio compounding. A very large fund cannot buy what a small one can; size should buy a lower fee in return.

expense ratio, Regular / Direct0.26% / 0.00% · category median 0.16%AUM, Sep 2023 → Aug 2026₹68 Cr → ₹2,674 Cr (+252% a year)of that change, from flows rather than returns99% net inflows · NAV +51% over the window

Assets under management, ₹ crore, Mar 2023 – Aug 2026

010002000Mar 2023Sep 2024Aug 2025Mar 2026Aug 2026Mar 2023: ₹2 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2023: ₹18 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2023: ₹68 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2023: ₹101 Cr (amfi-aaum)Mar 2024: ₹177 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2024: ₹286 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2024: ₹454 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2024: ₹670 Cr (amfi-aaum)Feb 2025: ₹824 CrMar 2025: ₹891 CrApr 2025: ₹996 CrMay 2025: ₹1,086 CrJun 2025: ₹1,101 Cr (amfi-aaum)Aug 2025: ₹1,339 CrSep 2025: ₹1,431 CrNov 2025: ₹1,482 CrDec 2025: ₹1,578 CrJan 2026: ₹1,565 CrFeb 2026: ₹1,701 CrMar 2026: ₹1,840 CrApr 2026: ₹2,361 CrMay 2026: ₹2,495 CrJun 2026: ₹2,440 CrJul 2026: ₹2,557 CrAug 2026: ₹2,674 Cr
010002000Mar 2023Sep 2024Aug 2025Mar 2026Aug 2026Mar 2023: ₹2 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2023: ₹18 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2023: ₹68 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2023: ₹101 Cr (amfi-aaum)Mar 2024: ₹177 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2024: ₹286 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2024: ₹454 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2024: ₹670 Cr (amfi-aaum)Feb 2025: ₹824 CrMar 2025: ₹891 CrApr 2025: ₹996 CrMay 2025: ₹1,086 CrJun 2025: ₹1,101 Cr (amfi-aaum)Aug 2025: ₹1,339 CrSep 2025: ₹1,431 CrNov 2025: ₹1,482 CrDec 2025: ₹1,578 CrJan 2026: ₹1,565 CrFeb 2026: ₹1,701 CrMar 2026: ₹1,840 CrApr 2026: ₹2,361 CrMay 2026: ₹2,495 CrJun 2026: ₹2,440 CrJul 2026: ₹2,557 CrAug 2026: ₹2,674 Cr
010002000Mar 2023Sep 2024Aug 2025Mar 2026Aug 2026Mar 2023: ₹2 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2023: ₹18 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2023: ₹68 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2023: ₹101 Cr (amfi-aaum)Mar 2024: ₹177 Cr (amfi-aaum)Jun 2024: ₹286 Cr (amfi-aaum)Sep 2024: ₹454 Cr (amfi-aaum)Dec 2024: ₹670 Cr (amfi-aaum)Feb 2025: ₹824 CrMar 2025: ₹891 CrApr 2025: ₹996 CrMay 2025: ₹1,086 CrJun 2025: ₹1,101 Cr (amfi-aaum)Aug 2025: ₹1,339 CrSep 2025: ₹1,431 CrNov 2025: ₹1,482 CrDec 2025: ₹1,578 CrJan 2026: ₹1,565 CrFeb 2026: ₹1,701 CrMar 2026: ₹1,840 CrApr 2026: ₹2,361 CrMay 2026: ₹2,495 CrJun 2026: ₹2,440 CrJul 2026: ₹2,557 CrAug 2026: ₹2,674 Cr

25 points · months without a factsheet figure use AMFI's quarterly average · Regular-plan expense ratio 0.20% in Feb 2023 → 0.26% in Sep 2026

How it is measured, and the case against

Past a certain size the smaller end of a mandate becomes unreachable, and the fund starts to look like its index; what size should buy in return is a lower expense ratio.

Has the fund outgrown the universe it invests in — and did size buy a lower fee?

Why this might matterSize narrows what the manager can meaningfully hold and should lower what the investor pays. Read the AUM history beside the expense ratio: a fund that has tripled through inflows while its Regular-plan TER sits above the category median has kept the benefit of scale for the house. The flow decomposition says how much of the growth was money arriving rather than the portfolio compounding.
Why it might notScale funds research teams, and plenty of large funds have gone on compounding for decades. Inflows follow performance, so a fund growing fast is usually one that did well; the constraint is real but not automatically binding, and a TER is a ceiling the AMC can cut at any time.
P7 Whose record is this headline and record disagree
Not measurable yet. Needs manager names from the monthly factsheet archive; none were parsed for this fund yet.

What this means. How long the people running it now have been running it, read from the monthly factsheets. A five-year record earned under someone else is not evidence about these managers.

The 5-year figure covers most of the fund's entire life. This scheme is about 3.6 years old and a 5-year return is being displayed for it. That is effectively a since-inception number — it measures the period the fund happened to be launched into, and separates nothing from the manager's contribution.
How it is measured, and the case against

A record earned under different people is not evidence about these ones.

Does the displayed record predate the people running it?

Why this might matterA five-year figure on a fund whose longest-serving manager joined two years ago is the house's record more than the person's. The tenure here comes from what each monthly factsheet named, so a change of hands is dated to the month it was disclosed, and the fund's return against its category can be read over exactly those months.
Why it might notEvery fund is young once, and a short record is not a bad one. This says the number cannot bear the weight usually placed on it, not that the fund is worse than a peer.

Tracking gap

the NAV the fund published, against the NAV its last disclosed portfolio would have produced at each day's prices

No signal. Replication needs a fully disclosed domestic-equity portfolio and daily prices for every line; this fund has not been replicated in this build.

Share classes

latest NAV per AMFI code

PlanOptionNAVDate
regular
HDFC NIFTY Smallcap 250 ETF - Growth Option
growth₹184.3621 Sep 2026
The Direct / Regular gap, in rupees

This fund does not have both a Direct and a Regular growth class in the data, so the gap cannot be measured.

A Regular plan buys advice. The fee is visible and the behavioural saving is not; both are shown, neither is netted off.

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