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Nifty Construction

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

Compare with Nifty 500Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 15-06-2026. 98.2% 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 Construction and Nifty 500 on the same 5,351 observed dates, 01-04-2005 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
12.5%BT
Nifty 500: 13.6%
Annualized volatility
30.3%BT
Nifty 500: 20.1%
Max drawdown
-84.5%BT
Nifty 500: -63.7%
Sharpe
0.39BT
Nifty 500: 0.50
Sortino
0.54BT
Nifty 500: 0.69
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
6.6%BT
Nifty 500: 13.4%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Construction, 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
-41.5%
High on 31-07-2024
Gain needed to recover
70.8%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
2y 3m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-84.5%
07-01-2008 to 03-09-2013; recovered 08-09-2023 (15y 8m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
15y 8m
07-01-2008 to 08-09-2023BT
Time spent below a high
95.3%
4 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 year43.5%4.4%-79.7%263.3%5,094
3 years28.8%9.2%-30.3%96.6%4,580
5 years31.2%6.6%-22.4%46.2%4,106
7 years28.5%6.8%-16.0%24.3%3,606
10 years31.5%7.2%-6.8%22.8%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
148.6%
Average of 162 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
168.5%
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
18y 10m
Relative wealth below its high, 07-01-2008 to still behind

Now 77.3% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 18y 10m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 97.5% of shared trading days.

Backtest Hero? · vs its own history

15-06-2026 – 28-10-2026 · 4 months 13 days. Compared with 5,162 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest.
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Total return
-16.2%
Historical percentile 16.0median 4.9%
Volatility
16.4%
Historical percentile 4.8median 24.8%
Max drawdown
-22.0%
Historical percentile 29.2median -16.3%

Growth of 100

On 5,351 shared dates from 01-04-2005: 100 became 1,266 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 Construction 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 ConstructionNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)-20.6%-8.2%
-12.4 pp
2025-13.8%+7.8%
-21.5 pp
2024+41.8%+16.2%
+25.5 pp
2023+75.5%+26.9%
+48.6 pp
2022+6.7%+4.2%
+2.5 pp
2021+49.7%+31.6%
+18.1 pp
2020+7.2%+17.9%
-10.7 pp
2019+1.3%+9.0%
-7.7 pp
2018-26.2%-2.1%
-24.0 pp
2017+74.3%+37.7%
+36.7 pp
2016-3.7%+5.1%
-8.8 pp
20150.0%+0.2%
-0.2 pp
2014+43.4%+39.3%
+4.1 pp
2013-23.3%+4.8%
-28.1 pp
2012+46.6%+33.5%
+13.1 pp
2011-54.3%-26.4%
-27.9 pp
2010-10.7%+15.3%
-26.0 pp
2009+97.8%+91.0%
+6.8 pp
2008-75.6%-56.5%
-19.1 pp
2007+114.4%+64.6%
+49.9 pp
2006+146.6%+36.2%
+110.4 pp
2005 (partial)+105.9%+38.5%
+67.5 pp