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Nifty Cement

Total Return Index · Available history 01-04-2005 to 28-10-2026 · 5,351 observations

Compare with Nifty 500Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 16-02-2026. 96.8% 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 Cement and Nifty 500 on the same 5,351 observed dates, 01-04-2005 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
13.9%BT
Nifty 500: 13.6%
Annualized volatility
25.7%BT
Nifty 500: 20.1%
Max drawdown
-74.8%BT
Nifty 500: -63.7%
Sharpe
0.45BT
Nifty 500: 0.50
Sortino
0.64BT
Nifty 500: 0.69
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
13.9%BT
Nifty 500: 13.4%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Cement, 01-04-2005 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-26.1%
High on 20-08-2025
Gain needed to recover
35.4%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
1y 2m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-74.8%
14-12-2007 to 25-11-2008; recovered 18-09-2012 (4y 9m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
4y 9m
14-12-2007 to 18-09-2012BT
Time spent below a high
94.3%
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 year31.0%12.3%-73.4%170.2%5,094
3 years10.4%12.4%-12.6%44.3%4,580
5 years0.4%13.9%-2.6%29.2%4,106
7 years0.0%13.2%2.3%27.2%3,606
10 years0.0%13.1%4.6%21.5%2,862

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

Versus Nifty 500

On the shared dates 01-04-2005 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
110.6%
Average of 162 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
107.8%
Average of 96 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
48.4%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 258 months
Longest stretch behind
14y
Relative wealth below its high, 07-11-2012 to still behind

Now 38.7% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 14y. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 98.9% of shared trading days.

Backtest Hero? · vs its own history

16-02-2026 – 28-10-2026 · 8 months 12 days. Compared with 5,003 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest.
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Total return
-18.3%
Historical percentile 8.5median 9.7%
Volatility
22.3%
Historical percentile 52.6median 22.1%
Max drawdown
-20.2%
Historical percentile 41.6median -18.8%

Growth of 100

On 5,351 shared dates from 01-04-2005: 100 became 1,652 vs 1,554 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 01-04-2005; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 04-04-2008, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 30-09-2005.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty Cement 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 CementNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)-17.4%-8.2%
-9.2 pp
2025+6.1%+7.8%
-1.6 pp
2024+2.9%+16.2%
-13.3 pp
2023+24.0%+26.9%
-2.9 pp
2022+1.8%+4.2%
-2.4 pp
2021+47.2%+31.6%
+15.6 pp
2020+28.9%+17.9%
+11.0 pp
2019-0.1%+9.0%
-9.0 pp
2018-21.7%-2.1%
-19.6 pp
2017+46.0%+37.7%
+8.3 pp
2016+16.3%+5.1%
+11.2 pp
2015+2.3%+0.2%
+2.1 pp
2014+44.7%+39.3%
+5.4 pp
2013-19.6%+4.8%
-24.4 pp
2012+61.3%+33.5%
+27.8 pp
2011-10.7%-26.4%
+15.7 pp
2010+8.9%+15.3%
-6.4 pp
2009+121.7%+91.0%
+30.8 pp
2008-66.4%-56.5%
-9.9 pp
2007+39.6%+64.6%
-24.9 pp
2006+108.0%+36.2%
+71.8 pp
2005 (partial)+42.6%+38.5%
+4.1 pp