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Nifty100 Equal Weight

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

Compare with Nifty 100Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 10-06-2013. 44.0% 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

Nifty100 Equal Weight and Nifty 100 on the same 5,920 observed dates, 01-01-2003 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
17.5%BT
Nifty 100: 15.8%
Annualized volatility
21.0%BT
Nifty 100: 20.9%
Max drawdown
-63.0%BT
Nifty 100: -61.1%
Sharpe
0.65BT
Nifty 100: 0.58
Sortino
0.89BT
Nifty 100: 0.82
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
14.0%BT
Nifty 100: 13.8%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty100 Equal Weight, 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
-9.8%
High on 03-08-2026
Gain needed to recover
10.9%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
3m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-63.0%
04-01-2008 to 09-03-2009; recovered 31-12-2009 (2y after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
3y 5m
09-11-2010 to 27-03-2014BT
Time spent below a high
89.3%
7 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 year20.8%14.7%-56.6%173.9%5,660
3 years6.8%16.3%-11.6%68.3%5,135
5 years0.3%14.0%-2.8%49.8%4,655
7 years0.0%13.1%5.6%36.1%4,169
10 years0.0%14.0%4.4%24.9%3,418

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

Versus Nifty 100

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
107.9%
Average of 177 months Nifty 100 rose
Downside capture
104.6%
Average of 108 months Nifty 100 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
53.7%
Beat Nifty 100 in this share of 285 months
Longest stretch behind
8y 3m
Relative wealth below its high, 05-01-2018 to 16-04-2026

Now 2.4% behind its best point relative to Nifty 100, for 2m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 97.7% of shared trading days.

Backtest Hero? · vs its own history

28-10-2021 – 28-10-2026 · 5 years. Compared with 1,349 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest. Difference in CAGR versus Nifty 100: +3.5 pp.
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CAGR
10.3%
Historical percentile 32.2median 16.3%
Volatility
15.3%
Historical percentile 0.0median 28.8%
Max drawdown
-21.5%
Historical percentile 100.0median -63.0%
Sharpe
0.41
Historical percentile 42.2median 0.51

Growth of 100

On 5,920 shared dates from 01-01-2003: 100 became 4,619 vs 3,282 in Nifty 100. 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

Nifty100 Equal Weight vs Nifty 100; 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.
YearNifty100 Equal WeightNifty 100Difference
2026 (YTD)-4.6%-10.6%
+6.0 pp
2025+9.4%+10.2%
-0.8 pp
2024+17.5%+13.0%
+4.6 pp
2023+30.7%+21.2%
+9.4 pp
2022+2.4%+4.9%
-2.6 pp
2021+34.0%+26.4%
+7.5 pp
2020+17.5%+16.1%
+1.4 pp
2019+3.5%+11.8%
-8.3 pp
2018-8.5%+2.6%
-11.0 pp
2017+36.0%+32.9%
+3.2 pp
2016+7.4%+5.0%
+2.4 pp
2015+0.2%-1.3%
+1.4 pp
2014+42.5%+34.9%
+7.6 pp
2013+4.7%+7.9%
-3.2 pp
2012+39.9%+32.5%
+7.4 pp
2011-29.1%-24.9%
-4.2 pp
2010+17.8%+19.3%
-1.5 pp
2009+120.9%+84.9%
+36.0 pp
2008-53.5%-53.1%
-0.4 pp
2007+58.1%+59.5%
-1.4 pp
2006+28.3%+40.2%
-11.9 pp
2005+30.4%+37.1%
-6.7 pp
2004+25.4%+16.3%
+9.1 pp
2003 (partial)+117.2%+86.9%
+30.3 pp