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Nifty 100

Total Return Index · Available history 01-01-2003 to 28-10-2026 · 5,920 observations

Compare with Nifty 500Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 01-12-2005. 12.4% of this index's trading days are NSE's pre-launch backtest (marked BT, shaded on the charts). Backtests can benefit from hindsight; post-launch index returns are still not fund returns. Source: Curated catalog launch_date (not independently reverified).

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Nifty 100 and Nifty 500 on the same 5,920 observed dates, 01-01-2003 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
15.8%BT
Nifty 500: 16.5%
Annualized volatility
20.9%BT
Nifty 500: 20.5%
Max drawdown
-61.1%BT
Nifty 500: -63.7%
Sharpe
0.58BT
Nifty 500: 0.62
Sortino
0.82BT
Nifty 500: 0.86
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
13.8%BT
Nifty 500: 14.1%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty 100, 01-01-2003 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-11.4%
High on 02-01-2026
Gain needed to recover
12.8%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
10m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-61.1%
07-01-2008 to 27-10-2008; recovered 01-10-2010 (2y 9m after the high)
Longest time below a high
2y 9m
07-01-2008 to 01-10-2010
Time spent below a high
89.4%
6 declines of 20% or more

Outcomes by holding period

Every rolling window in the full history, ending on each trading day. Windows overlap, so this describes the past rather than predicting the future.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Held forLost moneyMedian CAGRWorst CAGRBest CAGRWindows
1 year17.1%14.0%-57.7%119.6%5,660
3 years2.4%13.8%-7.0%64.6%5,135
5 years0.0%13.8%-0.7%47.0%4,655
7 years0.0%13.1%5.2%31.6%4,169
10 years0.0%13.5%5.5%23.1%3,418

Lost money: share of windows with a negative annualized return.

Versus Nifty 500

On the shared dates 01-01-2003 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
95.8%
Average of 181 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
96.3%
Average of 104 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
45.3%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 285 months
Longest stretch behind
23y 10m
Relative wealth below its high, 02-01-2003 to still behind

Now 15.4% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 23y 10m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 100.0% of shared trading days.

Backtest Hero? · vs its own history

28-10-2021 – 28-10-2026 · 5 years. Compared with 0 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest.
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CAGR
6.8%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Volatility
14.1%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Max drawdown
-17.2%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Sharpe
0.20
Percentile unavailablemedian —

Growth of 100

On 5,920 shared dates from 01-01-2003: 100 became 3,282 vs 3,841 in Nifty 500. Shaded: backtested history before launch.

Drawdown

Percentage decline from the previous peak.

Rolling 3Y CAGR

Calendar-anniversary rolling annualized return. Shared input history starts 01-01-2003; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 06-01-2006, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 04-07-2003.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty 100 vs Nifty 500; the difference is in percentage points (pp). Incomplete historical years are labeled (partial); the ongoing year is labeled (YTD). Hover a year for its actual dates.
YearNifty 100Nifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)-10.6%-8.2%
-2.3 pp
2025+10.2%+7.8%
+2.5 pp
2024+13.0%+16.2%
-3.3 pp
2023+21.2%+26.9%
-5.7 pp
2022+4.9%+4.2%
+0.7 pp
2021+26.4%+31.6%
-5.2 pp
2020+16.1%+17.9%
-1.8 pp
2019+11.8%+9.0%
+2.9 pp
2018+2.6%-2.1%
+4.7 pp
2017+32.9%+37.7%
-4.8 pp
2016+5.0%+5.1%
-0.1 pp
2015-1.3%+0.2%
-1.5 pp
2014+34.9%+39.3%
-4.4 pp
2013+7.9%+4.8%
+3.1 pp
2012+32.5%+33.5%
-1.0 pp
2011-24.9%-26.4%
+1.5 pp
2010+19.3%+15.3%
+4.0 pp
2009+84.9%+91.0%
-6.1 pp
2008-53.1%-56.5%
+3.5 pp
2007+59.5%+64.6%
-5.1 pp
2006+40.2%+36.2%
+4.1 pp
2005+37.1%+38.8%
-1.6 pp
2004+16.3%+21.1%
-4.7 pp
2003 (partial)+86.9%+103.7%
-16.8 pp