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Nifty Telecommunications

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

CAGR
7.2%BT
Nifty 500: 13.6%
Annualized volatility
27.5%BT
Nifty 500: 20.1%
Max drawdown
-71.8%BT
Nifty 500: -63.7%
Sharpe
0.22BT
Nifty 500: 0.50
Sortino
0.31BT
Nifty 500: 0.69
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
5.3%BT
Nifty 500: 13.4%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Telecommunications, 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
-3.3%
High on 11-09-2026
Gain needed to recover
3.4%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
2m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-71.8%
31-12-2007 to 23-03-2020; recovered 15-09-2023 (15y 8m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
15y 8m
31-12-2007 to 15-09-2023BT
Time spent below a high
97.2%
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 year44.6%5.0%-61.9%149.4%5,094
3 years41.7%3.3%-22.7%36.2%4,580
5 years30.2%5.3%-19.5%32.2%4,106
7 years25.5%3.5%-8.5%23.8%3,606
10 years28.6%5.2%-5.1%12.2%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
94.3%
Average of 162 months Nifty 500 rose
Downside capture
111.3%
Average of 96 months Nifty 500 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
45.0%
Beat Nifty 500 in this share of 258 months
Longest stretch behind
21y 3m
Relative wealth below its high, 29-07-2005 to still behind

Now 75.6% behind its best point relative to Nifty 500, for 21y 3m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 99.7% 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
1.9%
Historical percentile 48.7median 2.5%
Volatility
18.7%
Historical percentile 15.2median 23.0%
Max drawdown
-7.4%
Historical percentile 91.3median -14.5%

Growth of 100

On 5,351 shared dates from 01-04-2005: 100 became 450 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 Telecommunications 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 TelecommunicationsNifty 500Difference
2026 (YTD)+22.6%-8.2%
+30.9 pp
2025+12.1%+7.8%
+4.4 pp
2024+12.7%+16.2%
-3.6 pp
2023+32.3%+26.9%
+5.4 pp
2022-14.7%+4.2%
-19.0 pp
2021+48.7%+31.6%
+17.1 pp
2020+43.5%+17.9%
+25.6 pp
2019-16.7%+9.0%
-25.6 pp
2018-27.4%-2.1%
-25.2 pp
2017+36.5%+37.7%
-1.1 pp
2016-20.3%+5.1%
-25.4 pp
2015+4.5%+0.2%
+4.3 pp
2014+18.5%+39.3%
-20.8 pp
2013+47.4%+4.8%
+42.5 pp
2012+11.7%+33.5%
-21.7 pp
2011-30.7%-26.4%
-4.3 pp
2010-1.1%+15.3%
-16.4 pp
2009+8.6%+91.0%
-82.4 pp
2008-55.5%-56.5%
+1.0 pp
2007+43.4%+64.6%
-21.2 pp
2006+35.4%+36.2%
-0.7 pp
2005 (partial)+39.6%+38.5%
+1.2 pp