What the data actually shows
Not explainers — there are better ones elsewhere. These are questions we can answer because we compute returns across every stock we track at every holding period from one to twenty years, and no single page on this site answers them.
Every figure is rendered live from that dataset, so these pieces update with the market. Where the data has a known bias, it is stated in the piece rather than left out.
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When a SIP Beats a Lump Sum, It Is Usually Bad News
We ran both against every stock we track, at every horizon. A lump sum won in about nine cases out of ten over twenty years — and the stocks where the SIP won turn out to be the ones that did badly. That is the finding, and it is the opposite of how SIPs are sold.
8 min readDo Last Year’s Best Performing Stocks Repeat? Eighteen Years of Evidence
We took the top 25 stocks of every year since 2007 and looked at what they did next. On average 2.6 of them stayed in the top 25 — and 2.6 fell into the bottom 25. Last year’s winner was as likely to become next year’s worst performer as to repeat.
7 min readHow Much of Indian Equity Returns Actually Came From Dividends?
The share price is the part everybody watches. Across the Nifty 500, dividends were a median quarter of the total twenty-year return — and the share climbs the longer you hold. Here is the split, measured company by company.
7 min readHow Long Should You Hold a Stock? What 20 Years of Nifty 500 Data Shows
We ran the same question across every holding period we track, from one year to twenty. The share of stocks that made money climbs from about half to nearly all — and the range of outcomes collapses. Here is the measured picture, including what it does not prove.
8 min readCheck It Yourself
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