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Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR)
Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) is an NSE theme index of 40 stocks. Since 2005 it has compounded 19.2% a year with dividends reinvested; over the past year it fell 2.5%. Its deepest fall was 69%, from Jan 2008 to Dec 2008, and it took 2.6 years from that high to a new one.
Written for anyone who holds, tracks or is thinking of buying Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR). Data to 14 Oct 2026.
- Trend
- Downtrend since Sep 2026
- Momentum
- 114th of 133 markets, by rank
- Below its high
- 11.4% total return
- P/E
- 22.1 33rd percentile
- 1 year
- −2.5% total return
- 5 years
- 8.8% a year
- 10 years
- 17.7% a year
- Since 2005
- 19.2% a year
- Volatility
- 17.1% past year; usual 19%
NSE launched Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) in Nov 2024. Figures before that use NSE's back-calculated history: today's rules applied to the past, chosen with that past in view. Charts mark the launch.
Returns
Total return counts dividends reinvested; price return does not. Since 2005, dividends added about 1.1 percentage points a year. Returns over more than a year are a year, compounded.
Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR): growth of 100
Weekly, from Apr 2005, log scale: equal slopes are equal rates of growth. Drag the range below the chart to start anywhere; both lines restart at 100.
How to read it. The gap between the two lines is what dividends were worth. It widens slowly and never closes.
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To 14 Oct 2026. Before any fund cost or tax.
| Period | Total return | Price return | Dividends added | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | −5.8% | −5.8% | 0.0 pts | |
| 3 months | −7.7% | −7.8% | +0.1 pts | |
| 6 months | −1.2% | −1.7% | +0.5 pts | |
| This year | −7.8% | −8.4% | +0.6 pts | |
| 1 year | −2.5% | −3.2% | +0.7 pts | |
| 3 years, a year | +9.9% | +9.2% | +0.7 pts | |
| 5 years, a year | +8.8% | +8.1% | +0.7 pts | |
| 10 years, a year | +17.7% | +16.7% | +0.9 pts | |
| 15 years, a year | +15.7% | +14.7% | +1.0 pts | |
| 20 years, a year | +15.6% | +14.5% | +1.0 pts | |
| Since Apr 2005, a year | +19.2% | +18.1% | +1.1 pts |
Year by year
16 of the 20 full calendar years since 2006 ended higher. 18 of them had a fall of 10% or more from a peak somewhere inside the year, so even good years are rarely smooth.
Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR): each calendar year
The worst fall is the largest drop from a peak within the year, with the previous year-end as the first peak (the convention of J.P. Morgan's Guide to the Markets). Total return, %.
| Year | Total return | Price return | Dividends | Worst fall in the year | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | −7.8% | −8.4% | +0.6 pts | −15.8% | |
| 2025 | +11.4% | +10.7% | +0.8 pts | −13.8% | |
| 2024 | +10.6% | +10.0% | +0.6 pts | −15.4% | |
| 2023 | +19.6% | +19.0% | +0.7 pts | −18.5% | |
| 2022 | +13.3% | +12.3% | +1.0 pts | −19.5% | |
| 2021 | +61.6% | +60.3% | +1.3 pts | −7.7% | |
| 2020 | +41.9% | +40.4% | +1.5 pts | −41.5% | |
| 2019 | +4.1% | +2.9% | +1.1 pts | −14.2% | |
| 2018 | −0.2% | −1.0% | +0.8 pts | −19.6% | |
| 2017 | +46.1% | +45.0% | +1.1 pts | −5.6% | |
| 2016 | +6.0% | +5.0% | +0.9 pts | −16.3% | |
| 2015 | −8.3% | −9.0% | +0.8 pts | −20.8% | |
| 2014 | +32.8% | +31.5% | +1.3 pts | −10.2% | |
| 2013 | +15.4% | +14.3% | +1.2 pts | −11.3% | |
| 2012 | +31.2% | +29.5% | +1.7 pts | −19.5% | |
| 2011 | −27.4% | −28.2% | +0.7 pts | −28.2% | |
| 2010 | +31.0% | +29.7% | +1.2 pts | −12.1% | |
| 2009 | +152.6% | +149.9% | +2.7 pts | −18.3% | |
| 2008 | −64.2% | −64.6% | +0.4 pts | −69.3% | |
| 2007 | +68.0% | +66.3% | +1.7 pts | −19.1% | |
| 2006 | +100.0% | +98.1% | +2.0 pts | −33.9% |
The falls
Every fall of 10% or more from a high, deepest first. The worst, 69%, took 11 months to reach bottom and 20 months more to climb back. Today it is 11.4% below its high.
Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR): how far below its previous high
Weekly, the week's lowest close against the highest close before it, total return, %.
How to read it. Zero is a new high. The depth of each dip is what a holder sat through; its width is how long getting back took.
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Total return, closing prices. A fall ends when the index closes at or above the high it fell from. Calendar time.
| Fall | From the high of | To the low of | Falling for | Recovering for | Back at the high | High to high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| −69.3% | 2 Jan 2008 | 2 Dec 2008 | 11 months | 20 months | 3 Aug 2010 | 2.6 years |
| −42.7% | 28 Aug 2018 | 23 Mar 2020 | 19 months | 5 months | 18 Aug 2020 | 24 months |
| −33.9% | 17 May 2006 | 14 Jun 2006 | 28 days | 5 months | 23 Nov 2006 | 6 months |
| −29.9% | 10 Nov 2010 | 20 Dec 2011 | 13 months | 22 months | 18 Oct 2013 | 2.9 years |
| −29.3% | 3 Mar 2015 | 11 Feb 2016 | 11 months | 13 months | 1 Mar 2017 | 24 months |
| −23.7% | 27 Sept 2024 | 7 Apr 2025 | 6 months | +16% off the low | not yet | 18 months since the low |
| −21.5% | 13 Sept 2022 | 28 Mar 2023 | 6 months | 6 months | 15 Sept 2023 | 12 months |
| −19.5% | 11 Apr 2022 | 20 Jun 2022 | 2 months | 53 days | 12 Aug 2022 | 4 months |
| −19.1% | 7 Feb 2007 | 5 Mar 2007 | 26 days | 4 months | 6 Jul 2007 | 5 months |
| −13.5% | 5 Oct 2005 | 28 Oct 2005 | 23 days | 28 days | 25 Nov 2005 | 51 days |
What holding it was like
From every day in its history, what holding Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) for a fixed span would have returned a year. Over five years the middle outcome was 17.3% a year; the worst −2.1% and the best 40.1%; 0% of five-year spans lost money.
Total return a year, %, over every span of that length starting on any session. Spans overlap, so 'separate spans' is how many non-overlapping ones the history holds: the longer the span, the fewer truly independent readings behind each figure.
| Held for | Worst | 1 in 10 worse than | Middle | 1 in 10 better than | Best | Spans that lost | Separate spans |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | −64.2% | −12.0% | +17.1% | +78.5% | +190.6% | 23% | 21.5 |
| 3 years | −6.9% | +6.1% | +15.3% | +35.9% | +63.5% | 1% | 7.2 |
| 5 years | −2.1% | +7.1% | +17.3% | +30.0% | +40.1% | 0% | 4.3 |
| 7 years | +5.9% | +11.1% | +16.5% | +23.3% | +26.2% | 0% | 3.1 |
| 10 years | +4.9% | +10.9% | +17.9% | +20.8% | +25.1% | 0% | 2.2 |
Rolling returns, a year
Weekly: the return a year over the 3 and 5 years to each date, total return, %.
How to read it. Each point is what someone who bought 3 or 5 years earlier had earned a year by then. The lows mark the worst times to have bought.
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₹10,000 on the first session of every month into the index itself, from January of each year to 14 Oct 2026. Before any fund cost or tax; an index fund would have returned a little less. Of SIPs that ran five years or more, the weakest started in 2021 (+9.1% a year).
| Started in January | Months | Put in | Worth now | Multiple | Return a year (XIRR) | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | ₹2,20,000 | ₹2,17,452 | 0.99× | −1.3% | |
| 2024 | 34 | ₹3,40,000 | ₹3,35,889 | 0.99× | −0.9% | |
| 2023 | 46 | ₹4,60,000 | ₹5,07,470 | 1.10× | +5.2% | |
| 2022 | 58 | ₹5,80,000 | ₹6,81,062 | 1.17× | +6.7% | |
| 2021 | 70 | ₹7,00,000 | ₹9,11,136 | 1.30× | +9.1% | |
| 2020 | 82 | ₹8,20,000 | ₹13,56,225 | 1.65× | +14.7% | |
| 2019 | 94 | ₹9,40,000 | ₹17,97,804 | 1.91× | +16.3% | |
| 2018 | 106 | ₹10,60,000 | ₹22,38,004 | 2.11× | +16.5% | |
| 2017 | 118 | ₹11,80,000 | ₹27,70,510 | 2.35× | +16.7% | |
| 2016 | 130 | ₹13,00,000 | ₹34,30,769 | 2.64× | +17.1% | |
| 2015 | 142 | ₹14,20,000 | ₹40,72,910 | 2.87× | +16.8% | |
| 2014 | 154 | ₹15,40,000 | ₹47,86,946 | 3.11× | +16.5% | |
| 2013 | 166 | ₹16,60,000 | ₹57,46,939 | 3.46× | +16.6% | |
| 2012 | 178 | ₹17,80,000 | ₹68,61,848 | 3.85× | +16.7% | |
| 2011 | 190 | ₹19,00,000 | ₹78,78,900 | 4.15× | +16.3% | |
| 2010 | 202 | ₹20,20,000 | ₹89,63,348 | 4.44× | +15.9% | |
| 2009 | 214 | ₹21,40,000 | ₹1,09,48,198 | 5.12× | +16.3% | |
| 2008 | 226 | ₹22,60,000 | ₹1,27,06,158 | 5.62× | +16.2% | |
| 2007 | 238 | ₹23,80,000 | ₹1,44,06,252 | 6.05× | +15.9% | |
| 2006 | 250 | ₹25,00,000 | ₹1,70,52,167 | 6.82× | +16.0% |
How bumpy
Volatility is how widely daily returns swing, scaled to a year. Over the past year it was 17.1%, against a usual 19.2% for this index. 61% of months ended higher, and 246 days moved 3% or more either way.
Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR): volatility over the past year
Weekly: standard deviation of daily total returns over the past 252 sessions, annualised, %.
How to read it. Spikes come with sell-offs; calm stretches come with rising markets. High readings rarely last.
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| Worst days | Return |
|---|---|
| 23 Mar 2020 | −13.0% |
| 24 Oct 2008 | −11.8% |
| 12 Mar 2020 | −9.1% |
| 21 Jan 2008 | −9.1% |
| 4 Jun 2024 | −8.3% |
| Best days | Return |
|---|---|
| 18 May 2009 | +15.9% |
| 31 Oct 2008 | +9.0% |
| 7 Apr 2020 | +8.2% |
| 28 Oct 2008 | +8.2% |
| 4 May 2009 | +7.2% |
| Worst months | Return |
|---|---|
| Oct 2008 | −30.0% |
| Mar 2020 | −25.1% |
| Jan 2008 | −19.9% |
| Jun 2008 | −18.5% |
| Sept 2008 | −16.4% |
| Best months | Return |
|---|---|
| May 2009 | +37.8% |
| Apr 2009 | +23.5% |
| Sept 2007 | +20.4% |
| Apr 2006 | +17.4% |
| Dec 2007 | +17.4% |
Valuation
NSE's own price-to-earnings, price-to-book and dividend yield, at each month-end since Aug 2026. Today's P/E of 22.1 is in the middle of its range since NSE moved to consolidated earnings in March 2021. Price to book, 2.81, is in the middle of its range over the full history.
Price to earnings
Month-ends, as NSE publishes them.
How to read it. Higher is dearer. Before March 2021 NSE used standalone earnings, so readings on either side of the line are not strictly comparable.
Price to earnings. Line chart, Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Price to earnings: latest 22.1×, range 22.1× to 23.9×.
Price to book
Month-ends, as NSE publishes them.
How to read it. Higher is dearer. Book value has no accounting break, so the whole history compares.
Price to book. Line chart, Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Price to book: latest 2.81×, range 2.81× to 3.07×.
Today is 14 Oct 2026; the history is month-ends. A percentile is the share of month-ends at or below today's reading: 90 means dearer than nine months in ten (for dividend yield, the reverse).
| Today | Percentile, full history | Last 10 years | Since March 2021 | Median | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price to earnings | 22.09 | 33 | – | – | 22.51 | 22.09 | 23.93 |
| Price to book | 2.81 | 33 | – | – | 2.86 | 2.81 | 3.07 |
| Dividend yield, % | 1.17 | 100 | – | – | 0.86 | 0.80 | 1.17 |
What it holds
40 stocks as NSE lists them today. The ten largest make up 68.4% of the index. It is weighted by periodic capped free float and rebalanced quarterly.
Sector weights
NSE's factsheet, 30 Sept 2026. % of the index.
How to read it. Sectors as NSE classifies them. A sector index of one industry has no split to show.
Sector weights. Bar chart of 16 items. Weight, %: highest Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels at 15.7%, lowest Chemicals at 0.2%.
NSE's factsheet, 30 Sept 2026. NSE publishes the weights of the ten largest members only.
| Largest holdings | Weight | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reliance Industries Ltd. | 14.90% |
| 2 | Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. | 12.09% |
| 3 | Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. | 6.46% |
| 4 | Hindalco Industries Ltd. | 6.25% |
| 5 | UltraTech Cement Ltd. | 5.95% |
| 6 | Grasim Industries Ltd. | 5.30% |
| 7 | Adani Enterprises Ltd. | 4.51% |
| 8 | Tech Mahindra Ltd. | 4.44% |
| 9 | Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. | 4.44% |
| 10 | Titan Company Ltd. | 4.02% |
NSE's constituent list for Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR), as seen on 14 Oct 2026. NSE changes members at each rebalance.
| Member | Industry | NSE symbol | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACC Ltd. | Construction Materials | ACC | |
| Adani Energy Solutions Ltd. | Power | ADANIENSOL | |
| Adani Enterprises Ltd. | Metals & Mining | ADANIENT | |
| Adani Green Energy Ltd. | Power | ADANIGREEN | |
| Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. | Services | ADANIPORTS | |
| Adani Power Ltd. | Power | ADANIPOWER | |
| Adani Total Gas Ltd. | Oil Gas & Consumable Fuels | ATGL | |
| Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. | Financial Services | ABCAPITAL | |
| Aditya Birla Real Estate Ltd. | Realty | ABREL | |
| Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd. | Financial Services | ABSLAMC | |
| Ambuja Cements Ltd. | Construction Materials | AMBUJACEM | |
| Cemindia Projects Ltd. | Construction | CEMPRO | |
| Grasim Industries Ltd. | Construction Materials | GRASIM | |
| Hindalco Industries Ltd. | Metals & Mining | HINDALCO | |
| India Cements Ltd. | Construction Materials | INDIACEM | |
| Indian Hotels Co. Ltd. | Consumer Services | INDHOTEL | |
| Jio Financial Services Ltd. | Financial Services | JIOFIN | |
| Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. | Financial Services | M&MFIN | |
| Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. | Automobile and Auto Components | M&M | |
| Reliance Industries Ltd. | Oil Gas & Consumable Fuels | RELIANCE | |
| Tata Capital Ltd. | Financial Services | TATACAP | |
| Tata Chemicals Ltd. | Chemicals | TATACHEM | |
| Tata Communications Ltd. | Telecommunication | TATACOMM | |
| Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. | Information Technology | TCS | |
| Tata Consumer Products Ltd. | Fast Moving Consumer Goods | TATACONSUM | |
| Tata Elxsi Ltd. | Information Technology | TATAELXSI | |
| Tata Investment Corporation Ltd. | Financial Services | TATAINVEST | |
| Tata Motors Ltd. | Capital Goods | TMCV | |
| Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. | Automobile and Auto Components | TMPV | |
| Tata Power Co. Ltd. | Power | TATAPOWER | |
| Tata Steel Ltd. | Metals & Mining | TATASTEEL | |
| Tata Technologies Ltd. | Information Technology | TATATECH | |
| Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd. | Telecommunication | TTML | |
| Tech Mahindra Ltd. | Information Technology | TECHM | |
| Tejas Networks Ltd. | Telecommunication | TEJASNET | |
| Titan Company Ltd. | Consumer Durables | TITAN | |
| Trent Ltd. | Consumer Services | TRENT | |
| UltraTech Cement Ltd. | Construction Materials | ULTRACEMCO | |
| Vodafone Idea Ltd. | Telecommunication | IDEA | |
| Voltas Ltd. | Consumer Durables | VOLTAS |
Against the Nifty 500
How Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) has done against the broad market it is part of. Over 21 years it beat the Nifty 500 by 5.7 percentage points a year, and was ahead in 12 of 20 calendar years.
Relative strength
Weekly: Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR)'s total return divided by the Nifty 500's, 100 at the start of the range shown.
How to read it. Rising: Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) is outrunning the Nifty 500. Falling: it is lagging. The level means nothing; the direction is the reading.
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Three-year lead or lag
Weekly: Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR)'s return a year over the past three years minus the Nifty 500's, percentage points.
How to read it. Above zero, someone who bought three years earlier was ahead of the broad index; below, behind.
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Monthly total returns. Up capture: how much of the Nifty 500's gain in its rising months this index caught (100 is all of it); down capture: the same for falling months. Beta above 1 means bigger swings than the Nifty 500.
| Ahead by, a year | Up capture | Down capture | Beta | Correlation | Tracking error | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full history, from May 2005 | +5.7 pts | 113 | 98 | 1.08 | 0.91 | 11.0% |
| Last 5 years, from Oct 2021 | +1.6 pts | 115 | 113 | 1.17 | 0.92 | 7.7% |
Models and ETFs
No Tipsheet model uses Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR). No ETF listed on NSE tracks it. Its trend and momentum have a page of their own.
Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR): trend and momentum →
Data and sources
Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) is computed and published by NSE Indices. History here starts 1 Apr 2005; NSE launched the index on 12 Nov 2024, from a base date of April 01, 2005. All returns are on NSE's total-return index unless marked as price return.
Historical index data. NSE publishes daily index values, total-return values and P/E, P/B and dividend yield for every index on niftyindices.com: historical data. Pick Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) there to download its full series.
- Nifty India Select 5 Corporate Groups (MAATR) on niftyindices.com: description and methodology
- NSE's monthly factsheet (PDF)
- Current constituents (CSV)
- The weekly series on this page (JSON): growth of 100, drawdown, volatility and rolling returns
Index values themselves are NSE's and are not republished here; the charts show growth of 100 and other figures computed from them.
The workings
The question
Data
Every chart has a table view, a CSV download and a link to its published JSON. Bundles are listed in data status.