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DSP Mutual Fund October 2026 Netra The DSP Netra October 2026 edition is a bipolar market: large caps near their lowest five-year base rates, small and midcaps still at full-blown bull market multiples. DSP Netra October 2026: a bipolar market and the base-rates case This month’s DSP Netra October 2026 briefing comes from Sahil Kapoor at DSP Mutual Fund. Read alongside the DSP Netra September foundational edition and the UTI September equity call. NIFTY 100 5Y CAGR 7.4% · 10th Percentile MID & SMALL CAP BASE RATES At the Median QUALITY VS CYCLICALS No Premium A NEW RUPEE TODAY Better Safety in Large Caps INDIA VS EM ~54pp Gap, Among Largest Summary The DSP Netra October 2026 is on base rates and mean reversion. Returns come in bunches: of the 12% a market might deliver over 10 to 15 years, 8 or 9% arrives in a one-to-three-year window. Two years without returns is, in his words, perfectly normal. What is not normal is how bipolar the market has become. The detail The better the previous five years, the harder the next five become The Nifty 100’s five-year rolling CAGR has fallen to 7.4% against a median base rate near 15%. The Nifty 50 is around 5%, the top 10 stocks under 2.5% — returns of bonds but volatility of stocks, as an earlier Netra put it. Whenever large caps sat in this decile, the next five years delivered 15% CAGR, midcap 12%, small cap 16%. Historical numbers, he says, to be taken with a pinch of salt — and conditional on no new crisis landing. Prefer large caps at this critical historical juncture Small and midcap prices versus large caps are at their highest level ever, above both the 2007 high and the September 2024 high, while the earnings growth differential evened out over about eight quarters is not very high. The top 10 stocks versus the Nifty 500 are probably at one of the lowest readings on record. But no law says the ratio cannot go lower, and these points do not prove a turn is starting: the same bet in September 2024 bought a few months before another correction. Nifty is correcting through time, becoming attractive On 30 September the Nifty had spent about 145 days below its 200-day average, the eighth longest such streak, and has now closed eight consecutive weeks negative — one of only three such runs. The damage is shallower than usual: about 8% over the eight weeks against 16% and 19% before. He stresses this is the Nifty index only — mid and small cap indices do not show this pattern. India is lagging emerging markets in a rising EM market Since July 2025, the Nifty in US dollar terms has declined 14.5%, while MSCI Emerging Markets has risen 39.3%. That leaves a gap of nearly 54 percentage points in just 14 months — one of the largest relative-performance gaps on record, according to the report. Over the broader two-year comparison discussed in the presentation, the gap was closer to 80%. The previous worst relative gap, Sahil notes, was around 20%. This cycle has therefore been unusually severe, even by historical standards. India is underweight in emerging-market portfolios, relatively unloved and receiving fewer flows. Those conditions may look like reasons to avoid the market, but Sahil argues that they are also reasons to examine opportunities selectively. What this means for investors Key takeaways The edition’s own key takeaways, with the qualification he adds in the Q&A: Large firms have come to fair or average valuation and have become oversold. Some offer multiples not seen since COVID or the global financial crisis. Remove the confirmation bias. In 2023 or 2024 an investor would have given anything for these multiples. Fishing in small and midcap is harder. Opportunities exist there too, but fewer — the correction has not been as stark. Split your bets. Asked whether the large cap shift is structural, he said it could be and that he has no way to justify it either way. This is not a call to short mid and small cap. India’s underperformance versus emerging markets is unusually severe. The nearly 54-percentage-point gap since July 2025 may create scope for relative performance to normalise, but it does not establish when a reversal will happen. If emerging-market flows turn, large caps could benefit disproportionately because of their weight in passive indices. The DSP Netra October 2026 briefing sits alongside the DSP Netra September foundational edition and the UTI September equity call. For the underlying regulatory framework, see the Association of Mutual Funds in India. Equity DSP Mutual Fund Netra Base Rates Mean Reversion Large Cap October 2026 Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks. Please read all scheme-related documents carefully. Past patterns are not indicative of future returns. The views expressed are those of the speaker and do not constitute investment advice.