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Nifty MidSmall Healthcare

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

Launch date: 03-08-2022. 80.4% 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 MidSmall Healthcare and Nifty MidSmallcap 400 on the same 5,351 observed dates, 01-04-2005 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
21.1%BT
Nifty MidSmallcap 400: 16.1%
Annualized volatility
18.0%BT
Nifty MidSmallcap 400: 20.8%
Max drawdown
-54.1%BT
Nifty MidSmallcap 400: -73.8%
Sharpe
0.90BT
Nifty MidSmallcap 400: 0.60
Sortino
1.24BT
Nifty MidSmallcap 400: 0.80
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
20.3%BT
Nifty MidSmallcap 400: 16.0%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty MidSmall Healthcare, 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
-4.3%
High on 23-09-2026
Gain needed to recover
4.5%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
1m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-54.1%
02-01-2008 to 12-03-2009; recovered 24-11-2009 (1y 11m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
1y 11m
02-01-2008 to 24-11-2009BT
Time spent below a high
87.9%
6 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 year18.6%18.2%-45.4%152.3%5,094
3 years3.3%20.2%-15.2%54.7%4,580
5 years0.0%20.3%7.1%40.7%4,106
7 years0.0%22.6%12.0%40.5%3,606
10 years0.0%22.7%16.9%31.9%2,862

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

Versus Nifty MidSmallcap 400

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
81.2%
Average of 162 months Nifty MidSmallcap 400 rose
Downside capture
54.9%
Average of 96 months Nifty MidSmallcap 400 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
52.7%
Beat Nifty MidSmallcap 400 in this share of 258 months
Longest stretch behind
6y
Relative wealth below its high, 13-10-2020 to still behind

Now 23.1% behind its best point relative to Nifty MidSmallcap 400, for 6y. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 96.5% of shared trading days.

Backtest Hero? · vs its own history

03-08-2022 – 28-10-2026 · 4 years 2 months 25 days. Compared with 3,252 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest. Difference in CAGR versus Nifty MidSmallcap 400: +7.7 pp.
CAGR
24.3%
Historical percentile 59.8median 21.3%
Volatility
14.7%
Historical percentile 6.5median 17.2%
Max drawdown
-17.5%
Historical percentile 97.8median -24.8%
Sharpe
1.25
Historical percentile 64.8median 0.94

Growth of 100

On 5,351 shared dates from 01-04-2005: 100 became 6,177 vs 2,506 in Nifty MidSmallcap 400. 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 MidSmall Healthcare vs Nifty MidSmallcap 400; 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 MidSmall HealthcareNifty MidSmallcap 400Difference
2026 (YTD)+16.4%-2.5%
+18.9 pp
2025-0.4%+1.8%
-2.2 pp
2024+45.1%+25.5%
+19.6 pp
2023+52.8%+46.2%
+6.6 pp
2022-18.5%+1.9%
-20.4 pp
2021+18.9%+52.6%
-33.7 pp
2020+62.8%+25.9%
+37.0 pp
2019+4.7%-2.0%
+6.7 pp
2018+6.2%-17.3%
+23.5 pp
2017+19.2%+56.6%
-37.4 pp
2016+7.4%+4.8%
+2.6 pp
2015+37.7%+10.3%
+27.4 pp
2014+65.4%+65.5%
-0.1 pp
2013+25.3%-2.9%
+28.2 pp
2012+60.5%+44.6%
+16.0 pp
2011-19.3%-32.4%
+13.1 pp
2010+34.7%+19.3%
+15.4 pp
2009+91.4%+115.0%
-23.5 pp
2008-42.8%-66.2%
+23.4 pp
2007+21.0%+84.3%
-63.3 pp
2006+18.3%+29.8%
-11.6 pp
2005 (partial)+37.1%+47.2%
-10.2 pp