Quant Small Cap Fund exits Cochin Shipyard and HUDCO, reduces stake in 7 stocks in February

Quant Small Cap Fund has made a complete exit from Cochin Shipyard, HUDCO, and two other stocks from its portfolio in February and has reduced its stake in seven stocks in the mentioned period.

Around 1.53 lakh shares of Cochin Shipyard and 13.23 lakh shares of HUDCO were sold from the portfolio. The other two stocks from which this smallcap fund made a complete exit include Aarti Pharmalabs and Eclerx Services in the same time period.

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The seven stocks in which the stake was reduced include HP Adhesives, India Shelter Finance Corporation, Jubilant Pharmova, Reliance Industries, Sandur Manganese & Iron Ores, Taj GVK Hotels & Resorts, and Tata Chemicals. Around 4.65 lakh of RIL were reduced from the portfolio in the mentioned period.


The smallcap fund increased its exposure in nine stocks which includes Afcons Infrastructure, Alivus Life Sciences, Bata India, HFCL, Juniper Hotels, NCC, Ventive Hospitality, Welspun Corp, and Welspun Enterprises.

The shares of NCC were increased by 56.67 lakh to 92.11 lakh in February from 35.44 lakh in January. Around 30.71 lakh shares of Welspun Enterprises were added to the portfolio.

The exposure in 67 stocks remained unchanged on monthly basis which includes Zydus Wellness, Aadhar Housing Finance, Adani Enterprises, Adani Power, Bata India, Borosil Renewables, EPL, Jio Financial Services, LIC, ONGC, Pfizer, RBL Bank, SBI, and Sula Vineyards.

No new stocks were added to the portfolio in February. The total number of stocks in the portfolio in February were recorded at 83 against 87 in January.

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According to the monthly factsheet, the assets under management (AUM) were recorded at Rs 22,832 crore in February against Rs 25,183 crore as of January 31, 2025.

The fund is managed by Sandeep Tandon, Ankit Pande, Varun Pattani, Ayusha Kumbhat, Sanjeev Sharma and is benchmarked against Nifty Smallcap 250 TRI.

Quant Small Cap Fund’s majority of the portfolio is composed of small-cap stocks and the portfolio is constructed from a both medium-term and long-term perspective this scheme is apt for long-term investors. The bulk of the portfolio is invested in high-growth companies with attractive valuations and are relatively under-owned, the monthly release mentioned.

The primary investment objective of the scheme is to seek to generate capital appreciation and provide long-term growth opportunities by investing in a portfolio of smallcap companies.