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Nifty Midcap 50
Nifty Midcap 50 is an NSE broad market index of 50 stocks. Since 2004 it has compounded 14.6% a year with dividends reinvested; over the past year it rose 3.6%. Its deepest fall was 75%, from Jan 2008 to Mar 2009, and it took 8.5 years from that high to a new one.
Written for anyone who holds, tracks or is thinking of buying Nifty Midcap 50. Data to 14 Oct 2026.
- Trend
- Downtrend since Sep 2026
- Momentum
- 65th of 133 markets, by rank
- Below its high
- 8.1% total return
- P/E
- 30.1 33rd percentile
- 1 year
- +3.6% total return
- 5 years
- 14.6% a year
- 10 years
- 16.3% a year
- Since 2004
- 14.6% a year
- Volatility
- 16.7% past year; usual 22%
Returns
Total return counts dividends reinvested; price return does not. Since 2004, dividends added about 1.4 percentage points a year. Returns over more than a year are a year, compounded.
Nifty Midcap 50: growth of 100
Weekly, from Jan 2004, 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 | −5.2% | −5.2% | 0.0 pts | |
| 3 months | −5.3% | −5.5% | +0.2 pts | |
| 6 months | +4.5% | +4.1% | +0.3 pts | |
| This year | −1.0% | −1.5% | +0.5 pts | |
| 1 year | +3.6% | +3.0% | +0.6 pts | |
| 3 years, a year | +14.2% | +13.5% | +0.7 pts | |
| 5 years, a year | +14.6% | +13.7% | +0.9 pts | |
| 10 years, a year | +16.3% | +15.3% | +1.0 pts | |
| 15 years, a year | +16.1% | +14.9% | +1.2 pts | |
| 20 years, a year | +12.3% | +11.1% | +1.3 pts | |
| Since Jan 2004, a year | +14.6% | +13.2% | +1.4 pts |
Year by year
16 of the 21 full calendar years since 2005 ended higher. 19 of them had a fall of 10% or more from a peak somewhere inside the year, so even good years are rarely smooth.
Nifty Midcap 50: 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 | −1.0% | −1.5% | +0.5 pts | −14.4% | |
| 2025 | +8.6% | +8.0% | +0.6 pts | −16.6% | |
| 2024 | +22.2% | +21.5% | +0.6 pts | −11.9% | |
| 2023 | +51.4% | +50.2% | +1.2 pts | −7.1% | |
| 2022 | +5.4% | +4.1% | +1.3 pts | −20.5% | |
| 2021 | +44.9% | +43.2% | +1.7 pts | −12.3% | |
| 2020 | +26.3% | +24.9% | +1.3 pts | −42.0% | |
| 2019 | −3.7% | −4.7% | +1.0 pts | −18.6% | |
| 2018 | −10.2% | −11.0% | +0.8 pts | −22.8% | |
| 2017 | +52.7% | +51.3% | +1.4 pts | −8.4% | |
| 2016 | +8.4% | +7.2% | +1.1 pts | −21.9% | |
| 2015 | +3.1% | +1.5% | +1.5 pts | −16.9% | |
| 2014 | +47.5% | +46.1% | +1.5 pts | −11.8% | |
| 2013 | −1.3% | −2.8% | +1.5 pts | −29.8% | |
| 2012 | +37.6% | +35.1% | +2.4 pts | −20.8% | |
| 2011 | −39.0% | −39.9% | +0.9 pts | −40.8% | |
| 2010 | +11.6% | +10.4% | +1.2 pts | −15.9% | |
| 2009 | +103.4% | +100.5% | +3.0 pts | −29.7% | |
| 2008 | −64.8% | −65.4% | +0.6 pts | −71.0% | |
| 2007 | +74.1% | +71.8% | +2.2 pts | −21.2% | |
| 2006 | +26.5% | +24.6% | +1.9 pts | −38.7% | |
| 2005 | +39.0% | +36.8% | +2.2 pts | −16.2% |
The falls
Every fall of 10% or more from a high, deepest first. The worst, 75%, took 14 months to reach bottom and 7.3 years more to climb back. Today it is 8.1% below its high.
Nifty Midcap 50: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| −74.6% | 7 Jan 2008 | 9 Mar 2009 | 14 months | 7.3 years | 4 Jul 2016 | 8.5 years |
| −47.8% | 8 Jan 2018 | 23 Mar 2020 | 2.2 years | 8 months | 27 Nov 2020 | 2.9 years |
| −38.7% | 10 May 2006 | 14 Jun 2006 | 35 days | 12 months | 20 Jun 2007 | 13 months |
| −26.7% | 6 May 2004 | 23 Jun 2004 | 48 days | 5 months | 17 Nov 2004 | 6 months |
| −21.9% | 18 Oct 2021 | 20 Jun 2022 | 8 months | 5 months | 2 Dec 2022 | 13 months |
| −20.2% | 24 Sept 2024 | 28 Feb 2025 | 5 months | 8 months | 27 Oct 2025 | 13 months |
| −17.8% | 14 Jan 2004 | 23 Mar 2004 | 2 months | 25 days | 17 Apr 2004 | 3 months |
| −16.2% | 4 Oct 2005 | 28 Oct 2005 | 24 days | 46 days | 13 Dec 2005 | 2 months |
| −15.7% | 5 Oct 2016 | 26 Dec 2016 | 3 months | 57 days | 21 Feb 2017 | 5 months |
| −14.8% | 23 Jul 2007 | 21 Aug 2007 | 29 days | 29 days | 19 Sept 2007 | 58 days |
What holding it was like
From every day in its history, what holding Nifty Midcap 50 for a fixed span would have returned a year. Over five years the middle outcome was 14.2% a year; the worst −7.9% and the best 39.8%; 9% 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 | −67.5% | −13.2% | +13.3% | +65.9% | +170.7% | 29% | 22.8 |
| 3 years | −21.5% | −3.8% | +16.1% | +31.3% | +50.9% | 16% | 7.6 |
| 5 years | −7.9% | +1.4% | +14.2% | +25.0% | +39.8% | 9% | 4.6 |
| 7 years | −1.4% | +4.2% | +13.6% | +20.1% | +24.8% | 1% | 3.3 |
| 10 years | +2.1% | +6.4% | +13.2% | +19.2% | +22.2% | 0% | 2.3 |
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 2005 (+14.5% a year).
| Started in January | Months | Put in | Worth now | Multiple | Return a year (XIRR) | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | ₹2,20,000 | ₹2,30,611 | 1.05× | +5.3% | |
| 2024 | 34 | ₹3,40,000 | ₹3,68,538 | 1.08× | +5.8% | |
| 2023 | 46 | ₹4,60,000 | ₹5,79,723 | 1.26× | +12.4% | |
| 2022 | 58 | ₹5,80,000 | ₹8,34,579 | 1.44× | +15.4% | |
| 2021 | 70 | ₹7,00,000 | ₹11,28,484 | 1.61× | +16.5% | |
| 2020 | 82 | ₹8,20,000 | ₹16,31,288 | 1.99× | +20.1% | |
| 2019 | 94 | ₹9,40,000 | ₹20,96,643 | 2.23× | +20.2% | |
| 2018 | 106 | ₹10,60,000 | ₹25,30,870 | 2.39× | +19.2% | |
| 2017 | 118 | ₹11,80,000 | ₹30,21,573 | 2.56× | +18.4% | |
| 2016 | 130 | ₹13,00,000 | ₹36,64,055 | 2.82× | +18.2% | |
| 2015 | 142 | ₹14,20,000 | ₹43,40,829 | 3.06× | +17.8% | |
| 2014 | 154 | ₹15,40,000 | ₹51,68,445 | 3.36× | +17.6% | |
| 2013 | 166 | ₹16,60,000 | ₹63,08,330 | 3.80× | +17.8% | |
| 2012 | 178 | ₹17,80,000 | ₹74,17,855 | 4.17× | +17.6% | |
| 2011 | 190 | ₹19,00,000 | ₹84,38,201 | 4.44× | +17.0% | |
| 2010 | 202 | ₹20,20,000 | ₹93,08,816 | 4.61× | +16.3% | |
| 2009 | 214 | ₹21,40,000 | ₹1,07,77,037 | 5.04× | +16.2% | |
| 2008 | 226 | ₹22,60,000 | ₹1,19,85,222 | 5.30× | +15.7% | |
| 2007 | 238 | ₹23,80,000 | ₹1,30,40,783 | 5.48× | +15.1% | |
| 2006 | 250 | ₹25,00,000 | ₹1,43,44,392 | 5.74× | +14.7% | |
| 2005 | 262 | ₹26,20,000 | ₹1,61,62,674 | 6.17× | +14.5% | |
| 2004 | 274 | ₹27,40,000 | ₹1,90,07,111 | 6.94× | +14.7% |
How bumpy
Volatility is how widely daily returns swing, scaled to a year. Over the past year it was 16.7%, against a usual 21.8% for this index. 61% of months ended higher, and 297 days moved 3% or more either way.
Nifty Midcap 50: 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 |
|---|---|
| 21 Jan 2008 | −15.0% |
| 23 Mar 2020 | −14.8% |
| 17 May 2004 | −11.7% |
| 22 Jan 2008 | −11.2% |
| 24 Aug 2015 | −10.9% |
| Best days | Return |
|---|---|
| 18 May 2009 | +14.0% |
| 23 Jan 2008 | +11.4% |
| 18 May 2004 | +8.4% |
| 20 May 2009 | +8.0% |
| 25 Jan 2008 | +7.7% |
| Worst months | Return |
|---|---|
| Oct 2008 | −30.0% |
| Mar 2020 | −29.4% |
| Jan 2008 | −27.2% |
| Jun 2008 | −24.4% |
| May 2004 | −18.5% |
| Best months | Return |
|---|---|
| May 2009 | +49.4% |
| May 2014 | +20.8% |
| Jan 2012 | +20.3% |
| Nov 2020 | +19.2% |
| Dec 2004 | +18.6% |
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 30.1 is in the middle of its range since NSE moved to consolidated earnings in March 2021. Price to book, 3.68, 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 30.1×, range 30.1× to 36.4×.
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 3.68×, range 3.68× to 4.45×.
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 | 30.08 | 33 | – | – | 30.14 | 30.08 | 36.37 |
| Price to book | 3.68 | 33 | – | – | 3.69 | 3.68 | 4.45 |
| Dividend yield, % | 0.89 | 100 | – | – | 0.67 | 0.51 | 0.89 |
What it holds
50 stocks as NSE lists them today. The ten largest make up 31.6% of the index. It is weighted by free float market capitalization and rebalanced twice a yearly.
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 15 items. Weight, %: highest Financial Services at 27.6%, lowest Services at 1.5%.
NSE's factsheet, 30 Sept 2026. NSE publishes the weights of the ten largest members only.
| Largest holdings | Weight | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. | 3.91% |
| 2 | Federal Bank Ltd. | 3.65% |
| 3 | Laurus Labs Ltd. | 3.59% |
| 4 | One 97 Communications Ltd. | 3.36% |
| 5 | Hero MotoCorp Ltd. | 3.16% |
| 6 | Indian Hotels Co. Ltd. | 2.98% |
| 7 | Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. | 2.81% |
| 8 | IndusInd Bank Ltd. | 2.76% |
| 9 | AU Small Finance Bank Ltd. | 2.73% |
| 10 | Persistent Systems Ltd. | 2.67% |
NSE's constituent list for Nifty Midcap 50, as seen on 14 Oct 2026. NSE changes members at each rebalance.
| Member | Industry | NSE symbol | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| APL Apollo Tubes Ltd. | Capital Goods | APLAPOLLO | |
| AU Small Finance Bank Ltd. | Financial Services | AUBANK | |
| Ashok Leyland Ltd. | Capital Goods | ASHOKLEY | |
| Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. | Healthcare | AUROPHARMA | |
| Bharat Forge Ltd. | Automobile and Auto Components | BHARATFORG | |
| Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. | Capital Goods | BHEL | |
| Dabur India Ltd. | Fast Moving Consumer Goods | DABUR | |
| Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd. | Consumer Durables | DIXON | |
| FSN E-Commerce Ventures Ltd. | Consumer Services | NYKAA | |
| Federal Bank Ltd. | Financial Services | FEDERALBNK | |
| Fortis Healthcare Ltd. | Healthcare | FORTIS | |
| GE Vernova T&D India Ltd. | Capital Goods | GVT&D | |
| GMR Airports Ltd. | Services | GMRAIRPORT | |
| Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. | Healthcare | GLENMARK | |
| Godrej Properties Ltd. | Realty | GODREJPROP | |
| Havells India Ltd. | Consumer Durables | HAVELLS | |
| Hero MotoCorp Ltd. | Automobile and Auto Components | HEROMOTOCO | |
| Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. | Oil Gas & Consumable Fuels | HINDPETRO | |
| ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. | Financial Services | ICICIGI | |
| IDFC First Bank Ltd. | Financial Services | IDFCFIRSTB | |
| Indian Hotels Co. Ltd. | Consumer Services | INDHOTEL | |
| Indus Towers Ltd. | Telecommunication | INDUSTOWER | |
| IndusInd Bank Ltd. | Financial Services | INDUSINDBK | |
| Info Edge (India) Ltd. | Consumer Services | NAUKRI | |
| JSW Energy Ltd. | Power | JSWENERGY | |
| Laurus Labs Ltd. | Healthcare | LAURUSLABS | |
| Lupin Ltd. | Healthcare | LUPIN | |
| Mankind Pharma Ltd. | Healthcare | MANKIND | |
| Marico Ltd. | Fast Moving Consumer Goods | MARICO | |
| Max Financial Services Ltd. | Financial Services | MFSL | |
| Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. | Financial Services | MCX | |
| NHPC Ltd. | Power | NHPC | |
| NMDC Ltd. | Metals & Mining | NMDC | |
| National Aluminium Co. Ltd. | Metals & Mining | NATIONALUM | |
| Oil India Ltd. | Oil Gas & Consumable Fuels | OIL | |
| One 97 Communications Ltd. | Financial Services | PAYTM | |
| PB Fintech Ltd. | Financial Services | POLICYBZR | |
| Persistent Systems Ltd. | Information Technology | PERSISTENT | |
| Phoenix Mills Ltd. | Realty | PHOENIXLTD | |
| Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. | Realty | PRESTIGE | |
| REC Ltd. | Financial Services | RECLTD | |
| SRF Ltd. | Chemicals | SRF | |
| Suzlon Energy Ltd. | Capital Goods | SUZLON | |
| Swiggy Ltd. | Consumer Services | SWIGGY | |
| Tube Investments of India Ltd. | Automobile and Auto Components | TIINDIA | |
| UPL Ltd. | Chemicals | UPL | |
| United Spirits Ltd. | Fast Moving Consumer Goods | UNITDSPR | |
| Vishal Mega Mart Ltd. | Consumer Services | VMM | |
| Waaree Energies Ltd. | Capital Goods | WAAREEENER | |
| Yes Bank Ltd. | Financial Services | YESBANK |
Against the Nifty 50
Smaller companies against the largest: the question for anyone choosing between Nifty Midcap 50 and the Nifty 50. Over 23 years it beat the Nifty 50 by 2.0 percentage points a year, and was ahead in 12 of 21 calendar years.
Relative strength
Weekly: Nifty Midcap 50's total return divided by the Nifty 50's, 100 at the start of the range shown.
How to read it. Rising: Nifty Midcap 50 is outrunning the Nifty 50. Falling: it is lagging. The level means nothing; the direction is the reading.
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Three-year lead or lag
Weekly: Nifty Midcap 50's return a year over the past three years minus the Nifty 50'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 50'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 50.
| Ahead by, a year | Up capture | Down capture | Beta | Correlation | Tracking error | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full history, from Feb 2004 | +2.0 pts | 118 | 119 | 1.23 | 0.89 | 14.3% |
| Last 5 years, from Oct 2021 | +10.0 pts | 142 | 99 | 1.20 | 0.90 | 8.3% |
Models and ETFs
No Tipsheet model uses Nifty Midcap 50. 1 ETFs track it. Its trend and momentum have a page of their own.
From the ETF desk. Tracking difference: what a holder buying and selling on the exchange got, minus the index's total return, over the past year. Tracking error: how much that gap wobbled week to week.
| ETF | NSE symbol | Expense ratio | Assets | Tracking difference, 1 year | Tracking error, 1 year | Daily traded value (median) | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kotak Nifty Midcap 50 ETF | MIDCAP | 0.21% | ₹207 cr | −0.62 pts | 3.08% | ₹0.7 cr |
Data and sources
Nifty Midcap 50 is computed and published by NSE Indices. History here starts 1 Jan 2004, from a base date of January 01, 2004. 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 Midcap 50 there to download its full series.
- Nifty Midcap 50 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.