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Motilal Oswal Midcap Fund: Returns, Risk and Cost

How the direct plan has done against other mid cap funds, its worst fall, what it costs and its Genvest AI score.

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NAV to 23 OctSource: AMFIDirect plan
Contents
17.11%A year over 3 years, direct plan
7 of 29Rank among mid cap funds over 3 years
0.91%Expense ratio, direct
27/100Genvest AI score

Returns vs category

3 years: 17.11% a year, 7th of 29 mid cap funds

1 year31st of 31
This fund−4.70%
Category+1.83%
3 years7th of 29
This fund+17.11%
Category+14.98%
5 years1st of 25
This fund+18.64%
Category+13.18%

Direct-Growth plan, a year, to 16 October 2026, from AMFI NAVs. Ranks and averages cover the 34 mid cap funds AMFI lists that are old enough for each period.

Year by year

Ahead of the category average in 6 of the last 10 calendar years

  • 2016+6.5%avg +5.4%
  • 2017+32.6%avg +42.8%
  • 2018−11.5%avg −10.0%
  • 2019+10.9%avg +4.7%
  • 2020+10.7%avg +25.7%
  • 2021+57.8%avg +46.9%
  • 2022+12.0%avg +4.0%
  • 2023+43.3%avg +38.7%
  • 2024+58.9%avg +30.6%
  • 2025−11.4%avg +3.1%
  • 2026to 23 Oct−4.5%avg −3.5%

Calendar-year returns of the Direct-Growth plan. The average covers today’s mid cap funds that had a full year then.

3-year returns

3-year returns since 2014 ranged from −8.2% to 43.6% a year

Lowest
−8.2%
to May 2020
Middle
+21.9%
Highest
+43.6%
to May 2023
5% of 3-year periods lost money73% made 10% a year or more

Every 3-year holding period ending on a NAV day from 27 February 2017 to 23 October 2026 (2,380 periods), annualised.

Worst fall

Worst fall: 37.2% (Feb 2020–Mar 2020), back at its high 9 months later

High
20 Feb 2020
Low
23 Mar 2020
Back at the high
16 Dec 2020
Now
16.9% below the 16 Dec 2024 high

Fall from the highest NAV to the lowest that followed, on daily direct plan NAVs since 25 February 2014.

Cost

The regular plan costs 0.71% a year more: about ₹1.78 lakh on ₹10 lakh over 10 years

Direct 0.91%₹28.6 lakh
Regular 1.62%₹26.8 lakh

₹10 lakh invested once and held 10 years, assuming 12% a year before costs (an assumption, not a forecast). Expense ratios as disclosed on 16 October 2026. Try your own numbers in the fee calculator.

Size and facts

₹40,809 crore of assets: the 4th largest of 34 mid cap funds

Average assets, July–September 2026
₹40,809 crore
Fund house
Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund
Category
Mid cap

Genvest AI score

Genvest AI score 27 out of 100, ranked 23 of 31

Ranked 23 of 31 mid cap funds

Two of the things the score looks at, against other mid cap funds:

  • Holding up in fallsDeeper or longer falls than most mid cap funds
  • How bad the bad days wereSharper bad days, for its gains, than most mid cap funds

The Genvest AI score is Genvest’s proprietary score that ranks mutual funds within their category using quantitative methods. It is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any fund.

Scored on data to 23 October 2026, among the 31 mid cap funds Genvest scores. How the score works.

Full analysis on Genvest Research

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Every mid cap fund compared, from the category guide.

Questions people ask

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