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UTI Large Cap Fund: Returns, Risk and Cost

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

Genvest ResearchSEBI-registered Investment Adviser INA000018382
NAV to 23 OctSource: AMFIDirect plan
Contents
6.73%A year over 3 years, direct plan
29 of 30Rank among large cap funds over 3 years
1.19%Expense ratio, direct
22/100Genvest AI score

Returns vs category

3 years: 6.73% a year, 29th of 30 large cap funds

1 year28th of 33
This fund−8.52%
Category−6.10%
3 years29th of 30
This fund+6.73%
Category+9.33%
5 years25th of 28
This fund+5.37%
Category+7.47%

Direct-Growth plan, a year, to 19 October 2026, from AMFI NAVs. Ranks and averages cover the 35 large cap funds AMFI lists that are old enough for each period.

Year by year

Ahead of the category average in 4 of the last 10 calendar years

  • 2016+4.2%avg +5.0%
  • 2017+30.5%avg +32.1%
  • 2018+0.5%avg −0.3%
  • 2019+11.6%avg +12.5%
  • 2020+19.8%avg +15.0%
  • 2021+30.8%avg +27.4%
  • 2022−0.9%avg +3.0%
  • 2023+21.9%avg +25.3%
  • 2024+12.2%avg +16.5%
  • 2025+9.4%avg +8.5%
  • 2026to 23 Oct−11.1%avg −9.1%

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

3-year returns

3-year returns since 2013 ranged from −3.9% to 29.7% a year

Lowest
−3.9%
to March 2020
Middle
+13.6%
Highest
+29.7%
to March 2023
1% of 3-year periods lost money79% made 10% a year or more

Every 3-year holding period ending on a NAV day from 4 January 2016 to 23 October 2026 (2,663 periods), annualised.

Worst fall

Worst fall: 34.6% (Feb 2020–Mar 2020), back at its high 7 months later

High
13 Feb 2020
Low
23 Mar 2020
Back at the high
5 Nov 2020
Now
12.1% below the 26 Sept 2024 high

Fall from the highest NAV to the lowest that followed, on daily direct plan NAVs since 2 January 2013.

Cost

The regular plan costs 0.67% a year more: about ₹1.64 lakh on ₹10 lakh over 10 years

Direct 1.19%₹27.9 lakh
Regular 1.86%₹26.3 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 19 October 2026. Try your own numbers in the fee calculator.

Size and facts

₹12,098 crore of assets: the 9th largest of 35 large cap funds

Average assets, July–September 2026
₹12,098 crore
Fund house
UTI Mutual Fund
Category
Large cap

Genvest AI score

Genvest AI score 22 out of 100, ranked 26 of 33

Ranked 26 of 33 large cap funds

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

  • Holding up in fallsFalls about in line with other large cap funds
  • How bad the bad days wereBad days about in line with other large 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 33 large cap funds Genvest scores. How the score works.

Similar funds

Other large cap funds of a similar size

Every large cap fund compared, from the category guide.

Questions people ask

This page is educational research based on AMFI data and Genvest’s own analysis. It is not a recommendation to invest in any scheme, or personalised investment advice. Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks; read all scheme related documents carefully. Past returns do not guarantee future returns. Registration granted by SEBI, enlistment with IAASB and certification from NISM in no way guarantee performance of the intermediary or provide any assurance of returns to investors.