Should I invest in SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV?

We don't give personal investment advice. SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth is suitable for an investor whose:time horizon is **5+ years** — equity funds can drop 30-50% in bad years; horizons under 5 years materially raise the risk of selling at a lossrisk tolerance accepts seeing the portfolio fall sharply without panic-sellinggoal isn't capital preservation in the short termCross-check the numbers above against alternatives before deciding. Worst 5-year drawdown: 21.0%. 5-year CAGR: 14.72%.

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SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth

Latest NAV

₹47.7700

As of

3 Jun 2026

1,956 NAV records on file

NAV history & peer comparison

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Returns matrix

Fund return alongside the category average and peer rank for every standard window. Returns under one year are absolute; one year and longer are compound annualised (CAGR).

Window	Fund	Category avg	+/− vs avg	Rank	Quartile
1D	+0.34%	+0.24%	+0.10	23 / 59	Q2
1W	-2.22%	-1.27%	-0.94	49 / 59	Q4
2W	-0.21%	+0.30%	-0.51	38 / 59	Q3
1M	-2.73%	-0.87%	-1.86	51 / 59	Q4
3M	-4.45%	+0.83%	-5.29	51 / 59	Q4
6M	-6.08%	-2.14%	-3.94	39 / 59	Q3
YTD	-6.77%	-1.56%	-5.21	42 / 59	Q3
1Y	+1.77%	+5.96%	-4.19	26 / 59	Q2
2Y	+2.82%	+5.58%	-2.76	37 / 58	Q3
3Y	+12.11%	+14.58%	-2.47	44 / 58	Q4
4Y	+12.57%	+14.85%	-2.28	37 / 51	Q3
5Y	+14.72%	+14.46%	+0.26	17 / 47	Q2
7Y	+20.01%	+15.51%	+4.50	2 / 45	Q1
10Y	—	—	—	—	—
Inception	+18.78%	+14.13%	+4.64	2 / 59	Q1

Quartile legend: Q1 top 25% Q2 25-50% Q3 50-75% Q4 bottom 25%

Calendar-year returns

Full-year performance vs category average. Current year is partial (year-to-date).

Year	Fund	Category avg	+/− vs avg	Rank
2026 YTD	-6.77%	-4.44%	-2.33	36 / 53
2025	+3.75%	+3.70%	+0.05	30 / 53
2024	+21.28%	+20.13%	+1.15	21 / 53
2023	+23.81%	+30.82%	-7.01	43 / 51
2022	+6.81%	+3.78%	+3.04	11 / 47
2021	+58.73%	+39.32%	+19.41	8 / 50
2020	+32.72%	+18.42%	+14.30	4 / 50
2019	+14.93%	+6.48%	+8.44	7 / 47
2018	—	—	—	—

Rolling returns

Removes start-date bias by averaging CAGR over every overlapping N-year window in the fund's history. Higher average plus tight min/max plus high "% positive" = consistent.

1-Year rolling

+24.32%

85 windows

min -15.3% · max 105.3%

88% positive

3-Year rolling

+26.22%

61 windows

min 10.6% · max 41.9%

100% positive

5-Year rolling

+26.06%

36 windows

min 14.7% · max 33.7%

100% positive

Limited basis — fund is young, so this average may be skewed by which 5Y windows happen to be available.

7-Year rolling

+21.46%

12 windows

min 19.6% · max 23.1%

100% positive

Limited basis — fund is young, so this average may be skewed by which 7Y windows happen to be available.

SIP returns — historical "what if"

If you had invested every month in this fund over the chosen period, this is what your investment would be worth today.

Period

Total invested

₹ —

Today's value

₹ —

XIRR

Annualised

Wealth multiplier

Period	Total invested	Today's value	XIRR	Wealth multiplier

XIRR is the annualised internal rate of return on the SIP cash flow — invariant to the monthly amount. "Today's value" and "Total invested" scale linearly with the slider. Past performance does not guarantee future returns. Excludes exit load and taxes.

Risk profile

Risk-adjusted return and volatility, computed from monthly NAV returns over the trailing 3-year and 5-year windows.

Std deviation

13.93%

3-year · annualised

Sharpe ratio

0.43

vs risk-free 6.5%

Sortino ratio

0.65

Downside-only deviation

Max drawdown

-20.98%

Sep 2024 → Apr 2025

% positive months

75.0%

Share of monthly returns > 0 over the 3-year window

Sharpe / Sortino use a risk-free rate of 6.5% (1-year T-bill proxy). Higher Sharpe = more return per unit of total risk; higher Sortino = more return per unit of downside risk.

Peers in ELSS

Scheme	Fund house	NAV	As of
HDFC ELSS Tax saver - Growth Option - Direct Plan	HDFC	₹1,421.3430	3 Jun 2026
Nippon India ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Direct Plan Growth Plan - Growth Option	Nippon India	₹140.6038	3 Jun 2026
SBI ELSS Tax Saver FUND - DIRECT PLAN -GROWTH	SBI	₹458.2222	3 Jun 2026
ICICI Prudential ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	ICICI Prudential	₹990.7700	3 Jun 2026
Invesco India ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	Invesco	₹138.0800	3 Jun 2026
BANDHAN ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Direct Plan - Growth	Bandhan	₹173.1540	3 Jun 2026
quant ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Growth Option - Direct Plan	Quant	₹443.2149	3 Jun 2026
Aditya Birla Sun Life ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Growth - Direct Plan	Aditya Birla Sun Life	₹66.4800	3 Jun 2026
Motilal Oswal ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Direct Plan - Growth Option	Motilal Oswal	₹62.1822	3 Jun 2026
Franklin India ELSS Tax Saver Fund - Direct - Growth	Franklin India	₹1,537.4743	3 Jun 2026

Recent NAVs

Date	NAV
3 Jun 2026	₹47.7700
2 Jun 2026	₹48.0027
1 Jun 2026	₹47.8389
31 May 2026	₹48.3622
29 May 2026	₹48.3637
27 May 2026	₹48.9407
26 May 2026	₹49.0906
25 May 2026	₹49.2103
22 May 2026	₹48.4881
21 May 2026	₹48.1176

Frequently asked questions

These answers are generated from this fund's live metrics — NAV, returns, peer rank, drawdown, SIP backtest. Numbers refresh nightly after AMFI's NAV feed lands.

As of 03 Jun 2026, the NAV of SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth is ₹47.7700. It's a ELSS from SBI, run as a Direct plan Growth option. NAVs update once per business day from the AMFI feed.

SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth has NAV history starting from 03 Jul 2018, a track record of about 7 years 11 months. That's enough history to evaluate the fund across one or two market cycles. Look at rolling returns rather than point-to-point to judge consistency.

SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth is managed by SBI. It's classified by AMFI under the 'ELSS' SEBI category, which determines its peer set and tax treatment.

Over the trailing 1-year window, SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth has delivered a absolute return of 1.77% — -4.19 pp behind the ELSS category average of 5.96%. The fund ranks #26 of 59 in its category — the second (Q2) quartile.

Over the trailing 3-year window, SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth has delivered a CAGR of 12.11% — -2.47 pp behind the ELSS category average of 14.58%. The fund ranks #44 of 58 in its category — the bottom (Q4) quartile.

Over the trailing 5-year window, SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth has delivered a CAGR of 14.72% — +0.26 pp ahead of the ELSS category average of 14.46%. The fund ranks #17 of 47 in its category — the second (Q2) quartile.

₹1 lakh invested in SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth exactly 5 years ago would be worth approximately ₹198,708 today — a multiplier of 1.99×, based on the 5-year CAGR of 14.72%. The category average over the same window would have grown ₹1 lakh to ₹196,497.

A ₹10,000 monthly SIP in SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth over the last 5 years — total invested ₹600,000 — would be worth ₹758,611 today. That's an XIRR (money-weighted annualised return) of 9.31%.

SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth doesn't yet have 10 years of NAVs. Over the longest available window (7-year SIP), ₹10,000/month would have grown to ₹1,535,013 — XIRR 16.91%.

On a 5-year basis, SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth ranks #17 out of 47 funds in the ELSS category — that places it in the second quartile (Q2) — above the median. The category average return over the same window is 14.46%; this fund delivered 14.72%.

The worst peak-to-trough decline SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth has experienced over the last 5-year window is 20.98% — its NAV fell from a high on 23 Sep 2024 to a low on 07 Apr 2025. Drawdown is a useful gauge of how much short-term pain you'd have endured to capture the long-term return.

Across all 5-year rolling windows, SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth averaged 26.06% (best 33.73%, worst 14.72%). 100% of rolling windows ended positive. The 5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.57 — reasonable risk-adjusted performance.

In calendar year 2025, SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth returned 3.75% — beating the ELSS category average of 3.70% by 0.05 pp. It ranked #30 of 53 in its category that year.

SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth is classified as an Equity fund (at least 65% equity exposure). Tax rules (post Budget 2024): if you hold 12 months or more, gains are Long-Term and taxed at 12.5% on the amount exceeding ₹1.25 lakh per financial year. Held for under 12 months, gains are Short-Term and taxed at 20%. The ₹1.25 L exemption is per PAN per FY across all equity LTCG.

We don't give personal investment advice. SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth is suitable for an investor whose:

time horizon is **5+ years** — equity funds can drop 30-50% in bad years; horizons under 5 years materially raise the risk of selling at a loss
risk tolerance accepts seeing the portfolio fall sharply without panic-selling
goal isn't capital preservation in the short term

Cross-check the numbers above against alternatives before deciding. Worst 5-year drawdown: 21.0%. 5-year CAGR: 14.72%.

Educational content only — not investment advice. Tax rules summarised above reflect Budget 2024; consult a qualified adviser before transacting.

SBI Long Term Advantage Fund - Series IV - Direct Plan - Growth

NAV history & peer comparison

Returns matrix

Calendar-year returns

Rolling returns

SIP returns — historical "what if"

Risk profile

Peers in ELSS

Recent NAVs

Frequently asked questions

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