Samir Arora-backed Helios Mid Cap Fund adds Groww, 4 other stocks; hikes stake Paytm

Samir Arora-backed Helios Mid Cap Fund added Billionbrains Garage Ventures (Groww) and four other stocks as new entrants to its June portfolio, while increasing its stake in Paytm and 29 other stocks during the month.

The new additions were Billionbrains Garage Ventures, Aditya Vision, Page Industries, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Bharat Heavy Electricals. Among them, the fund bought 18.10 lakh shares of Billionbrains Garage Ventures, valued at Rs 26.57 crore.

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It added 7.80 lakh shares of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, 3.99 lakh shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals, 1.89 lakh shares of Aditya Vision and 7,128 shares of Page Industries in the portfolio in June.

The fund added 81,157 shares of Paytm in the portfolio and had 4.45 lakh shares in June portfolio compared to 3.64 lakh shares in July portfolio. The fund added 6.28 lakh shares of NBCC (India) taking the total number of shares to 24.62 lakh in June.

The fund added nearly 4.74 lakh shares of PhysicsWallah, taking its total holding to 24.90 lakh shares in June. It also bought 3.80 lakh shares of GMR Airports, 2.12 lakh shares of IDFC First Bank and 1.93 lakh shares of Honasa Consumer.
Among the other 25 stocks where the fund increased its portfolio were some names such as Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceuticals, Piramal Finance, Apar Industries, Gokaldas Export, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, Sunadaram Finance, BSE, MCX, Dixon Technologies (India), Aditya Birla Capital, CarTrade Tech, Delhivery, Vishal Mega Mart, Endurance Technologies and K.P.R. Mill.A complete exit was made from five stocks — Hero MotoCorp, Escorts Kubota, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company, PB Fintech, and Jain Resource Recycling. Further, 4.01 lakh shares of Jain Resource Recycling and 1.55 lakh shares of PB Fintech were sold from the portfolio.

The fund sold 95,792 shares of Escorts Kubota, 42,721 shares of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company and 29,057 shares of Hero MotoCorp from its portfolio.

The fund trimmed its exposure to Black Box by selling 45,361 shares, taking its holding down to 2.37 lakh shares in June.

Its holdings remained unchanged in 32 stocks, including ITC Hotels, Swiggy, Ather Energy, Hitachi Energy India, PNB Housing Finance, Lemon Tree Hotels, CAMS, Nippon Life India AMC, Bharti Hexacom, Edelweiss Financial Services and Radico Khaitan.

In June, the fund had 68 stocks compared to the same number of stocks in the previous month. The portfolio of the fund was spread across 23 sectors, with the highest allocation in finance of around 21.70%.

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The fund had an AUM of Rs 1,793 crore. Since its inception, it delivered a CAGR of 25.75%. In the last one year, the fund delivered a 11.92% return against 5.04% by the benchmark.

Helios Mid Cap Fund’s performance is benchmarked against Nifty Midcap 150 – TRI. The fund holds 9.28% in large caps, 55.31% in mid caps, 34.1% in small caps and 1.31% in others.

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