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Nifty Auto

Total Return Index · Available history 01-01-2004 to 28-10-2026 · 5,666 observations

Compare with Nifty 500Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 12-07-2011. 33.1% 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 Auto and Nifty 500 on the same 5,666 observed dates, 01-01-2004 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
16.8%BT
Nifty 500: 13.6%
Annualized volatility
23.3%BT
Nifty 500: 20.5%
Max drawdown
-61.1%BT
Nifty 500: -63.7%
Sharpe
0.58BT
Nifty 500: 0.50
Sortino
0.83BT
Nifty 500: 0.68
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
19.6%BT
Nifty 500: 13.7%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Auto, 01-01-2004 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-13.3%
High on 07-08-2026
Gain needed to recover
15.3%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
3m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-61.1%
29-12-2017 to 03-04-2020; recovered 12-10-2021 (3y 9m after the high)
Longest time below a high
3y 9m
29-12-2017 to 12-10-2021
Time spent below a high
91.7%
9 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 year23.0%17.1%-58.1%234.5%5,406
3 years14.0%20.6%-22.0%60.8%4,885
5 years4.3%19.6%-11.5%43.8%4,409
7 years0.0%15.9%2.3%38.7%3,917
10 years0.0%14.5%4.7%27.2%3,168

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

Versus Nifty 500

On the shared dates 01-01-2004 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
101.7%
Average of 172 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
86.6%
Average of 101 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
53.5%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 273 months
Longest stretch behind
10y
Relative wealth below its high, 13-10-2016 to still behind

Now 14.2% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 10y. 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 626 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest. Difference in CAGR versus Nifty 500: +10.5 pp.
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CAGR
19.0%
Historical percentile 36.7median 22.9%
Volatility
19.3%
Historical percentile 0.0median 28.0%
Max drawdown
-28.2%
Historical percentile 100.0median -60.2%
Sharpe
0.76
Historical percentile 69.2median 0.71

Growth of 100

On 5,666 shared dates from 01-01-2004: 100 became 3,441 vs 1,846 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 01-01-2004; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 05-01-2007, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 02-07-2004.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty Auto 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 AutoNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)-7.9%-8.2%
+0.4 pp
2025+24.6%+7.8%
+16.8 pp
2024+23.6%+16.2%
+7.3 pp
2023+48.8%+26.9%
+21.8 pp
2022+16.6%+4.2%
+12.4 pp
2021+20.3%+31.6%
-11.3 pp
2020+13.1%+17.9%
-4.8 pp
2019-9.4%+9.0%
-18.3 pp
2018-22.3%-2.1%
-20.2 pp
2017+32.6%+37.7%
-5.1 pp
2016+11.7%+5.1%
+6.5 pp
2015+0.3%+0.2%
0.0 pp
2014+58.2%+39.3%
+18.9 pp
2013+10.7%+4.8%
+5.9 pp
2012+44.6%+33.5%
+11.1 pp
2011-17.8%-26.4%
+8.6 pp
2010+37.5%+15.3%
+22.2 pp
2009+197.7%+91.0%
+106.7 pp
2008-54.0%-56.5%
+2.5 pp
2007+6.5%+64.6%
-58.1 pp
2006+30.1%+36.2%
-6.1 pp
2005+53.6%+38.8%
+14.8 pp
2004 (partial)+18.1%+18.5%
-0.4 pp