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Nifty Pharma

Total Return Index · Available history 01-01-2001 to 28-10-2026 · 6,419 observations

Compare with Nifty 500Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 01-07-2005. 17.7% 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 Pharma and Nifty 500 on the same 6,419 observed dates, 01-01-2001 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
14.5%BT
Nifty 500: 14.7%
Annualized volatility
19.6%BT
Nifty 500: 20.8%
Max drawdown
-52.0%BT
Nifty 500: -63.7%
Sharpe
0.55BT
Nifty 500: 0.54
Sortino
0.78BT
Nifty 500: 0.74
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
15.0%BT
Nifty 500: 14.8%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Pharma, 01-01-2001 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-2.4%
High on 31-08-2026
Gain needed to recover
2.4%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
2m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-52.0%
08-04-2015 to 23-03-2020; recovered 11-01-2021 (5y 9m after the high)
Longest time below a high
5y 9m
08-04-2015 to 11-01-2021
Time spent below a high
92.9%
7 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 year27.7%14.7%-33.1%96.5%6,165
3 years13.3%17.4%-14.6%47.2%5,640
5 years6.6%15.0%-12.0%33.7%5,154
7 years0.0%14.8%-0.1%30.9%4,658
10 years0.0%12.9%4.5%23.6%3,916

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

Versus Nifty 500

On the shared dates 01-01-2001 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
71.1%
Average of 192 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
50.3%
Average of 117 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
49.8%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 309 months
Longest stretch behind
13y 6m
Relative wealth below its high, 21-09-2001 to 19-03-2015

Now 41.5% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 11y 2m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 99.4% 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: +6.3 pp.
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CAGR
14.8%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Volatility
15.1%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Max drawdown
-17.6%
Percentile unavailablemedian —
Sharpe
0.69
Percentile unavailablemedian —

Growth of 100

On 6,419 shared dates from 01-01-2001: 100 became 3,326 vs 3,471 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 01-01-2001; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 02-01-2004, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 06-07-2001.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty Pharma 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 PharmaNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)+17.5%-8.2%
+25.7 pp
2025-2.2%+7.8%
-10.0 pp
2024+40.0%+16.2%
+23.8 pp
2023+34.8%+26.9%
+7.8 pp
2022-10.7%+4.2%
-15.0 pp
2021+10.9%+31.6%
-20.7 pp
2020+61.8%+17.9%
+43.9 pp
2019-8.7%+9.0%
-17.6 pp
2018-7.3%-2.1%
-5.2 pp
2017-5.7%+37.7%
-43.4 pp
2016-13.8%+5.1%
-18.9 pp
2015+9.7%+0.2%
+9.5 pp
2014+44.4%+39.3%
+5.1 pp
2013+27.3%+4.8%
+22.5 pp
2012+32.9%+33.5%
-0.5 pp
2011-9.0%-26.4%
+17.4 pp
2010+36.3%+15.3%
+21.0 pp
2009+60.9%+91.0%
-30.0 pp
2008-24.9%-56.5%
+31.7 pp
2007+16.1%+64.6%
-48.5 pp
2006+26.5%+36.2%
-9.7 pp
2005+2.2%+38.8%
-36.6 pp
2004+18.6%+21.1%
-2.4 pp
2003+86.1%+104.9%
-18.8 pp
2002+6.4%+13.9%
-7.6 pp
2001 (partial)-1.7%-21.1%
+19.4 pp