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Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30

Total Return Index · Available history 01-10-2009 to 28-10-2026 · 4,234 observations

Launch date: 04-04-2025. 90.9% 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

Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 and Nifty 500 on the same 4,234 observed dates, 01-10-2009 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
15.7%BT
Nifty 500: 11.4%
Annualized volatility
15.7%BT
Nifty 500: 16.2%
Max drawdown
-36.2%BT
Nifty 500: -38.1%
Sharpe
0.71BT
Nifty 500: 0.46
Sortino
0.98BT
Nifty 500: 0.63
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
19.0%BT
Nifty 500: 14.2%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30, 01-10-2009 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-22.4%
High on 01-10-2024
Gain needed to recover
28.9%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
2y 1m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-36.2%
12-02-2020 to 23-03-2020; recovered 14-09-2020 (7m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
2y 1m
01-10-2024 to still belowBT
Time spent below a high
86.9%
2 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 year21.3%12.5%-30.1%120.5%3,982
3 years0.2%17.2%-1.7%44.0%3,471
5 years0.0%19.0%1.7%33.0%2,983
7 years0.0%17.5%10.3%24.4%2,493
10 years0.0%17.9%9.8%21.9%1,754

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

Versus Nifty 500

On the shared dates 01-10-2009 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
98.4%
Average of 124 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
75.3%
Average of 80 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
54.4%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 204 months
Longest stretch behind
2y 11m
Relative wealth below its high, 22-11-2023 to still behind

Now 19.4% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 2y 11m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 94.3% of shared trading days.

Backtest Hero? · vs its own history

04-04-2025 – 28-10-2026 · 1 year 6 months 24 days. Compared with 3,459 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest. Difference in CAGR versus Nifty 500: -3.8 pp.
CAGR
0.1%
Historical percentile 6.8median 17.3%
Volatility
14.5%
Historical percentile 51.5median 14.3%
Max drawdown
-17.8%
Historical percentile 26.5median -13.3%
Sharpe
-0.26
Historical percentile 5.9median 0.87

Growth of 100

On 4,234 shared dates from 01-10-2009: 100 became 1,211 vs 635 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 01-10-2009; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 05-10-2012, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 09-04-2010.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 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.
YearNifty500 Flexicap Quality 30Nifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)-10.2%-8.2%
-2.0 pp
2025-8.3%+7.8%
-16.1 pp
2024+14.0%+16.2%
-2.2 pp
2023+40.8%+26.9%
+13.9 pp
2022-1.7%+4.2%
-6.0 pp
2021+54.4%+31.6%
+22.8 pp
2020+32.4%+17.9%
+14.5 pp
2019+6.0%+9.0%
-3.0 pp
2018+0.5%-2.1%
+2.6 pp
2017+49.5%+37.7%
+11.9 pp
2016+1.0%+5.1%
-4.1 pp
2015+7.5%+0.2%
+7.3 pp
2014+41.4%+39.3%
+2.1 pp
2013+13.9%+4.8%
+9.1 pp
2012+22.6%+33.5%
-10.8 pp
2011-17.5%-26.4%
+8.9 pp
2010+46.2%+15.3%
+30.9 pp
2009 (partial)+10.7%+5.2%
+5.4 pp