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Nifty Top 10 Equal Weight

Total Return Index · Available history 02-03-2006 to 28-10-2026 · 5,121 observations

Compare with Nifty 50Backtest Hero?

Launch date: 24-06-2024. 88.6% 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 Top 10 Equal Weight and Nifty 50 on the same 5,121 observed dates, 02-03-2006 – 28-10-2026.

CAGR
12.3%BT
Nifty 50: 11.4%
Annualized volatility
22.0%BT
Nifty 50: 20.8%
Max drawdown
-58.7%BT
Nifty 50: -59.5%
Sharpe
0.43BT
Nifty 50: 0.40
Sortino
0.61BT
Nifty 50: 0.56
Median rolling 5Y CAGR
14.7%BT
Nifty 50: 12.8%

Drawdown and recovery

Full history of Nifty Top 10 Equal Weight, 02-03-2006 – 28-10-2026. A drawdown is the fall from the highest close before it.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Current drawdown
-17.2%
High on 22-12-2025
Gain needed to recover
20.7%
From the latest close back to the high
Time below high
10m
Since the last high
Worst decline
-58.7%
11-01-2008 to 09-03-2009; recovered 13-09-2010 (2y 8m after the high)BT
Longest time below a high
2y 8m
11-01-2008 to 13-09-2010BT
Time spent below a high
91.3%
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 year19.8%14.8%-56.1%106.8%4,866
3 years0.8%12.9%-7.5%33.4%4,358
5 years0.0%14.7%2.3%26.5%3,874
7 years0.0%14.1%7.0%22.1%3,375
10 years0.0%14.3%8.4%20.9%2,635

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

Versus Nifty 50

On the shared dates 02-03-2006 – 28-10-2026, using month-end returns for capture.

BT = Backtested history by NSE— = not enough history

Upside capture
102.7%
Average of 147 months Nifty 50 rose
Downside capture
99.2%
Average of 100 months Nifty 50 fell; lower is better
Months ahead
49.8%
Beat Nifty 50 in this share of 247 months
Longest stretch behind
7y 3m
Relative wealth below its high, 31-07-2019 to still behind

Now 13.7% behind its best point relative to Nifty 50, for 7y 3m. Relative wealth was below an earlier peak on 97.2% of shared trading days.

Backtest Hero? · vs its own history

24-06-2024 – 28-10-2026 · 2 years 4 months 4 days. Compared with 3,952 equal-length periods from the pre-launch backtest. Difference in CAGR versus Nifty 50: -1.5 pp.
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CAGR
-1.9%
Historical percentile 5.0median 13.4%
Volatility
13.3%
Historical percentile 7.5median 18.3%
Max drawdown
-19.6%
Historical percentile 60.2median -23.9%
Sharpe
-0.45
Historical percentile 0.2median 0.51

Growth of 100

On 5,121 shared dates from 02-03-2006: 100 became 1,103 vs 925 in Nifty 50. Shaded: backtested history before launch.

Drawdown

Percentage decline from the previous peak.

Rolling 3Y CAGR

Calendar-anniversary rolling annualized return. Shared input history starts 02-03-2006; the first plotted rolling-return observation is 06-03-2009, after a complete 3Y-year window.

Rolling 1-year volatility

Up to 252 daily observations, minimum 126, annualized. First plotted observation: 01-09-2006.

Calendar-year returns

Nifty Top 10 Equal Weight vs Nifty 50; 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 Top 10 Equal WeightNifty 50Difference
2026 (YTD)-16.6%-12.3%
-4.3 pp
2025+9.5%+11.9%
-2.4 pp
2024+7.6%+10.1%
-2.5 pp
2023+20.8%+21.3%
-0.5 pp
2022+9.9%+5.7%
+4.2 pp
2021+18.9%+25.6%
-6.7 pp
2020+15.3%+16.1%
-0.8 pp
2019+19.0%+13.5%
+5.5 pp
2018+19.0%+4.6%
+14.4 pp
2017+32.9%+30.3%
+2.6 pp
2016+5.7%+4.4%
+1.3 pp
2015-6.5%-3.0%
-3.5 pp
2014+35.4%+32.9%
+2.5 pp
2013+13.2%+8.1%
+5.1 pp
2012+33.6%+29.4%
+4.2 pp
2011-21.2%-23.8%
+2.6 pp
2010+20.0%+19.2%
+0.8 pp
2009+75.4%+77.6%
-2.2 pp
2008-48.4%-51.3%
+2.8 pp
2007+38.4%+56.8%
-18.4 pp
2006 (partial)+36.7%+27.6%
+9.1 pp