DSP Midcap Fund: Seeking Long Term Value Creators

Moreover, when you invest in mid-cap funds, avoid investing in funds based on their short-term performance. Invest in funds that lay a strong emphasis on picking quality stocks and with a robust risk management system in place.

DSP Midcap Fund is one such mid-cap fund that stood strong in the recent market crash and has rewarded its investors reasonably well over longer periods of time.

Data as on August 04, 2021
(Source: ACE MF)

Historically, DSP Midcap Fund has stood among the top performers in the mid-cap funds category on multiple occasions. It is important to note the fund has trailed the benchmark and most of its peers in the last one year. However, its long term record is encouraging. Over the longer time frames of 3-year to 7-year, it has outpaced its benchmark by a noticeable margin of around 2-3 percentage points. In tandem with this it has maintained a lead over many of its category peers.

Despite its affinity for higher returns, it has achieved the same at reasonable risk, thus rewarding its long term investors with superior risk-adjusted returns as well. The fund's volatility is among the lowest in the category and far lower than the benchmark. Meanwhile, its Sharpe ratio clearly outpaces the benchmark.

Investment strategy of DSP Midcap Fund

DSP Midcap Fund is a typical mid-cap fund that aims to invest in mid-sized companies that have immense growth potential. The fund house believes the companies in this space generally trade at a discount to their large-cap counterparts and could benefit from re-rating. The fund mainly follows the bottom-up approach of stock picking.

DSP Midcap Fund places higher emphasis on the company's fundamentals and price valuation when including a stock in the portfolio. It invests in companies with consistent earnings and significant growth potential. The fund managers give higher importance to quality and avoid inferior businesses. At times, the fund follows the top-down approach when the fund management foresees emerging investment opportunity in a particular sector or a theme.

While zeroing-in on holdings for the portfolio, the stocks are screened on parameters such as, future prospects of the company and the business, financial strength of the company, competitive edge, and quality of management, to name a few. DSP Midcap Fund aims to invest around 70% of its assets in high conviction mid-cap stocks with a maximum exposure of 3% to 6% in each of these ideas. It also invests nearly one-third of its assets in large-gap and small-cap stocks.

DSP Midcap Fundusually holds a well-diversified portfolio spread across stocks and sectors. As on June 30, 2021, DSP Midcap Fund held a reasonably sized portfolio of 48 stocks. Popular mid-cap names like Balkrishna Industries, Max Financial Services, Mannapuram Finance, Supreme Industries, and Atul form part of its top holdings. Infosys and Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company are the only large-cap names in the top 10 holdings. Some of these stocks have been in the portfolio for well over 2 years now.

Stocks like Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company, Infosys, Balkrishna Industries, Atul, Supreme Industries, Max Financial Services, Emami, Voltas, Jubilant FoodWorks, among others have been the major gainers in the portfolio in the last one year. These stocks together contributed close to 25% to its returns during this period.

While DSP Midcap Fund holds a major allocation towards cyclicals, it is fairly diversified across defensive and sensitive sectors as well. Banking and Finance stocks have the highest exposure in the portfolio with a combined allocation of 20.4%. Engineering stocks follow closely behind with an allocation of 15.4%. Consumption, Auto Ancillaries, Consumer Durables, Pharmaceuticals, Infotech, Fertilisers, and Chemicals stand among the other core sectors in the fund's portfolio.

Suitability

DSP Midcap Fund is a process-driven fund that has been agile enough to take advantage of various investment opportunities present in the mid-cap segment. It aims to invest in growth-oriented stocks but at the right valuations. The strategy has enabled it to perform consistently across market cycles, while keeping the risk low.

Mr Vinit Sambre is one of the fund managers of DSP Midcap Fund. He is a veteran in the mid and small-cap space and has been at the helm of this scheme for over nine years now. The fund managers keep a strong focus on the fundamentals and those stocks that are likely to be re-rated and benefit during the recovery phase.

DSP Midcap Fund has the potential to reward investors willing to remain invested in the fund for a long term. It is suitable only for investors with high risk tolerance and a long term investment horizon of at least 5-7 years.

Warm Regards,
Divya Grover
Research Analyst

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