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Nifty Power

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 Power and Nifty 500 on the same 5,351 observed dates, 01-04-2005 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
12.2%BT
Nifty 500: 13.6%
Annualized volatility
26.6%BT
Nifty 500: 20.1%
Max drawdown
-70.5%BT
Nifty 500: -63.7%
Sharpe
0.39BT
Nifty 500: 0.50
Sortino
0.54BT
Nifty 500: 0.69
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
8.9%BT
Nifty 500: 13.4%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Power, 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
-22.3%
High on 26-09-2024
Gain needed to recover
28.6%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
2y 1m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-70.5%
03-01-2008 to 27-10-2008; recovered 02-03-2021 (13y 2m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
13y 2m
03-01-2008 to 02-03-2021BT
Time spent below a high
96.3%
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 year40.4%6.8%-61.8%239.4%5,094
3 years22.5%10.0%-19.5%52.8%4,580
5 years21.9%8.9%-13.0%43.6%4,106
7 years17.2%7.2%-9.7%28.7%3,606
10 years15.2%7.9%-4.1%21.9%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
115.3%
Average of 162 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
122.7%
Average of 96 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
44.6%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 258 months
Longest stretch behind
17y 8m
Relative wealth below its high, 27-02-2009 to still behind

Now 47.7% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 17y 8m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 99.5% 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
-14.3%
Historical percentile 12.4median 2.7%
Volatility
16.2%
Historical percentile 15.3median 21.9%
Max drawdown
-19.0%
Historical percentile 23.1median -13.6%

Growth of 100

On 5,351 shared dates from 01-04-2005: 100 became 1,197 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 Power 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 PowerNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)+0.4%-8.2%
+8.7 pp
2025-1.5%+7.8%
-9.3 pp
2024+18.5%+16.2%
+2.2 pp
2023+27.9%+26.9%
+1.0 pp
2022+4.4%+4.2%
+0.1 pp
2021+114.0%+31.6%
+82.4 pp
2020+25.4%+17.9%
+7.5 pp
2019+1.0%+9.0%
-8.0 pp
2018-14.5%-2.1%
-12.3 pp
2017+33.3%+37.7%
-4.3 pp
2016+10.4%+5.1%
+5.3 pp
2015-1.2%+0.2%
-1.4 pp
2014+17.9%+39.3%
-21.4 pp
2013-14.0%+4.8%
-18.8 pp
2012+22.3%+33.5%
-11.2 pp
2011-36.7%-26.4%
-10.3 pp
2010-8.0%+15.3%
-23.3 pp
2009+68.7%+91.0%
-22.2 pp
2008-55.5%-56.5%
+1.1 pp
2007+216.1%+64.6%
+151.5 pp
2006+8.9%+36.2%
-27.3 pp
2005 (partial)+21.5%+38.5%
-16.9 pp