NIFTY500All-Time High & Drawdowns

₹24,573, first reached on 27 September 2024. Nifty 500 last closed at ₹23,529, which is 4.3% below it. This is an intraday high adjusted for stock splits but not for dividends, so it is directly comparable with the price quoted today. Figures update when our data pipeline runs rather than continuously.

4.3% below it. Recovering that would take a gain of about 4.4% from here — the asymmetry that makes falls harder to undo than they look, because a 50% fall needs a 100% gain to reverse.

Over the last twelve months Nifty 500 traded between ₹20,386 and ₹24,144, and last closed at ₹23,529. Both figures are intraday — the highest and lowest prices actually printed in the window, not the highest and lowest closes.

-60.9%, from a peak in December 2007 to a low in November 2008. That is measured on total return, so dividends are counted as reinvested and the fall in the quoted price was deeper still. It is also measured on month-end values, which means an intra-month low that recovered before the month closed is not captured — the real worst moment was at least this bad.

6 years and 5 months. It fell from its December 2007 peak, bottomed in November 2008, and did not close a month above the old peak again until May 2014 — the climb back from the bottom alone took 5 years and 6 months. Depth gets the attention, but the waiting is what most people find hard.

Because they measure different things and both are correct. The ₹24,573 figure is a price — the highest NIFTY500 ever traded at, on the same basis prices are quoted today. The drawdown section instead tracks the value of a holding whose dividends were reinvested, and its peak is the high point of that holding rather than of the price. On a company that pays dividends the two always differ, and using the second one to answer "what is the all-time high" would understate it.

That is not a question this page answers, and we do not make recommendations. What it can tell you is exactly how far Nifty 500 has fallen from its high, how deep its worst fall was, and how long the recovery took — the historical context most price pages leave out. A stock that recovered from every previous fall may not recover from this one, and a large fall is not by itself evidence of value. ReturnScreener is an educational research platform and is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser.