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Nifty FMCG

Total Return Index · Available history 01-01-1996 to 28-10-2026 · 7,667 observations

Compare with Nifty 500Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 22-09-1999. 12.1% 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 FMCG and Nifty 500 on the same 7,643 observed dates, 01-01-1996 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
14.8%BT
Nifty 500: 13.8%
Annualized volatility
21.2%BT
Nifty 500: 22.1%
Max drawdown
-45.9%BT
Nifty 500: -67.0%
Sharpe
0.54BT
Nifty 500: 0.48
Sortino
0.79BT
Nifty 500: 0.67
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
15.3%BT
Nifty 500: 14.0%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty FMCG, 01-01-1996 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-33.4%
High on 23-09-2024
Gain needed to recover
50.2%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
2y 1m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-45.9%
26-08-1999 to 24-04-2003; recovered 24-06-2005 (5y 10m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
5y 10m
26-08-1999 to 24-06-2005BT
Time spent below a high
93.0%
5 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 year23.7%15.7%-25.3%127.4%7,409
3 years9.8%15.5%-15.1%52.5%6,884
5 years4.4%15.3%-8.2%34.5%6,407
7 years0.0%14.8%2.4%28.1%5,914
10 years0.0%15.8%6.1%27.5%5,151

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

Versus Nifty 500

On the shared dates 01-01-1996 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
65.6%
Average of 224 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
42.4%
Average of 145 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
48.8%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 369 months
Longest stretch behind
27y 6m
Relative wealth below its high, 26-04-1999 to still behind

Now 53.2% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 27y 6m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 98.0% 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: -4.5 pp.
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CAGR
4.0%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Volatility
14.1%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Max drawdown
-33.7%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Sharpe
0.01
Percentile unavailablemedian —

Growth of 100

On 7,643 shared dates from 01-01-1996: 100 became 7,115 vs 5,305 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 01-01-1996; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 01-01-1999, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 12-07-1996.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty FMCG 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 FMCGNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)-22.2%-8.2%
-13.9 pp
2025-0.4%+7.8%
-8.2 pp
2024+1.5%+16.2%
-14.7 pp
2023+30.8%+26.9%
+3.9 pp
2022+20.1%+4.2%
+15.8 pp
2021+12.4%+31.6%
-19.2 pp
2020+14.7%+17.9%
-3.2 pp
2019+0.1%+9.0%
-8.9 pp
2018+15.3%-2.1%
+17.4 pp
2017+31.2%+37.7%
-6.5 pp
2016+4.6%+5.1%
-0.5 pp
2015+1.4%+0.2%
+1.2 pp
2014+19.6%+39.3%
-19.7 pp
2013+13.3%+4.8%
+8.5 pp
2012+50.7%+33.5%
+17.2 pp
2011+10.2%-26.4%
+36.6 pp
2010+32.9%+15.3%
+17.6 pp
2009+44.4%+91.0%
-46.5 pp
2008-17.8%-56.5%
+38.7 pp
2007+25.1%+64.6%
-39.4 pp
2006+19.1%+36.2%
-17.1 pp
2005+62.3%+38.8%
+23.5 pp
2004+0.4%+21.1%
-20.7 pp
2003+35.3%+104.9%
-69.5 pp
2002-10.5%+13.9%
-24.4 pp
2001-9.4%-21.6%
+12.1 pp
2000-0.6%-23.5%
+22.8 pp
1999+20.0%+100.9%
-80.9 pp
1998+23.9%-6.8%
+30.7 pp
1997+67.8%+14.5%
+53.3 pp
1996 (partial)+18.7%-6.3%
+25.0 pp