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Nifty Bank

Total Return Index · Available history 01-01-2000 to 28-10-2026 · 6,670 observations

Compare with Nifty 500Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 15-09-2003. 13.9% 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

Nifty Bank and Nifty 500 on the same 6,669 observed dates, 03-01-2000 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
17.3%BT
Nifty 500: 12.7%
Annualized volatility
27.9%BT
Nifty 500: 21.5%
Max drawdown
-68.3%BT
Nifty 500: -67.0%
Sharpe
0.54BT
Nifty 500: 0.44
Sortino
0.78BT
Nifty 500: 0.61
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
16.4%BT
Nifty 500: 14.9%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Bank, 01-01-2000 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-11.3%
High on 18-02-2026
Gain needed to recover
12.7%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
8m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-68.3%
14-01-2008 to 09-03-2009; recovered 02-08-2010 (2y 7m after the high)
Longest time below a high
2y 7m
14-01-2008 to 02-08-2010
Time spent below a high
93.2%
11 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 year20.2%16.5%-57.0%179.8%6,413
3 years4.9%16.1%-8.9%69.5%5,888
5 years0.2%16.4%-1.1%60.9%5,404
7 years0.0%15.2%4.9%43.6%4,907
10 years0.0%15.8%6.1%33.8%4,167

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

Versus Nifty 500

On the shared dates 03-01-2000 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
114.9%
Average of 197 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
101.3%
Average of 124 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
51.7%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 321 months
Longest stretch behind
6y 10m
Relative wealth below its high, 16-12-2019 to still behind

Now 25.8% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 6y 10m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 97.6% 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. Difference in CAGR versus Nifty 500: -1.1 pp.
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CAGR
7.4%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Volatility
16.9%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Max drawdown
-18.3%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Sharpe
0.23
Percentile unavailablemedian —

Growth of 100

On 6,669 shared dates from 03-01-2000: 100 became 7,222 vs 2,465 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 03-01-2000; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 03-01-2003, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 07-07-2000.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty Bank 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 BankNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)-8.3%-8.2%
-0.1 pp
2025+18.1%+7.8%
+10.3 pp
2024+6.3%+16.2%
-10.0 pp
2023+13.3%+26.9%
-13.6 pp
2022+22.1%+4.2%
+17.9 pp
2021+13.9%+31.6%
-17.7 pp
2020-2.8%+17.9%
-20.7 pp
2019+18.9%+9.0%
+10.0 pp
2018+6.8%-2.1%
+8.9 pp
2017+41.4%+37.7%
+3.8 pp
2016+8.5%+5.1%
+3.3 pp
2015-8.9%+0.2%
-9.2 pp
2014+66.2%+39.3%
+26.9 pp
2013-7.7%+4.8%
-12.5 pp
2012+58.4%+33.5%
+25.0 pp
2011-31.7%-26.4%
-5.4 pp
2010+32.0%+15.3%
+16.7 pp
2009+83.5%+91.0%
-7.4 pp
2008-48.5%-56.5%
+8.0 pp
2007+66.1%+64.6%
+1.5 pp
2006+35.1%+36.2%
-1.1 pp
2005+32.1%+38.8%
-6.6 pp
2004+38.4%+21.1%
+17.3 pp
2003+118.8%+104.9%
+14.0 pp
2002+45.3%+13.9%
+31.3 pp
2001-8.4%-21.6%
+13.2 pp
2000 (partial)-6.5%-28.6%
+22.0 pp