Rolling Returns
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd.
Every 10-year stretch MCX has been through — 54 of them, each starting a month after the last. The median returned 22.1% a year, the worst 1.3%, the best 34.4%. A single headline CAGR hides all of that.
Every Holding Period
A rolling window is every possible start date, not one. A five-year window starting in January is a different investment from one starting in February, and over twenty years there are a couple of hundred of them. What follows is the full spread of what each holding period actually produced.
Across 162 separate 1-year holding periods, the median returned 20.0% a year. The worst lost 69.2% a year and the best made 210.3%.
Worst start: September 2012 — -69.2% a year for the 1 years that followed.
Best start: August 2023 — 210.3% a year.
Against the Nifty 50: MCX came out ahead in 53.7% of the 162 windows both series cover.
Across 138 separate 3-year holding periods, the median returned 17.9% a year. The worst lost 16.9% a year and the best made 121.0%.
Worst start: November 2012 — -16.9% a year for the 3 years that followed.
Best start: April 2023 — 121.0% a year.
Against the Nifty 50: MCX came out ahead in 56.5% of the 138 windows both series cover.
Across 114 separate 5-year holding periods, the median returned 11.8% a year. The worst lost 10.0% a year and the best made 62.5%.
Worst start: January 2013 — -10.0% a year for the 5 years that followed.
Best start: August 2021 — 62.5% a year.
Against the Nifty 50: MCX came out ahead in 56.1% of the 114 windows both series cover.
Across 90 separate 7-year holding periods, the median returned 15.7% a year. The worst lost 4.6% a year and the best made 53.8%.
Worst start: March 2012 — -4.6% a year for the 7 years that followed.
Best start: February 2019 — 53.8% a year.
Against the Nifty 50: MCX came out ahead in 60.0% of the 90 windows both series cover.
Across 54 separate 10-year holding periods, the median returned 22.1% a year. Not one of them ended in a loss — the weakest still compounded at 1.3% a year.
Worst start: September 2012 — 1.3% a year for the 10 years that followed.
Best start: August 2016 — 34.4% a year.
Against the Nifty 50: MCX came out ahead in 68.5% of the 54 windows both series cover.
Windows step forward one month at a time and are measured on month-end adjusted closing prices, so dividends are treated as reinvested. Overlapping windows share months by construction — that is what makes the spread a description of this stock's history rather than a sample of independent trials.
Against The Index
Beating an index once is a result. Beating it across most of the periods an investor could have picked is a pattern. Over 10-year windows, MCX finished ahead of the Nifty 50 in 68.5% of the 54 periods both series cover.
1-year windows
Ahead in 53.7% of 162 periods.
3-year windows
Ahead in 56.5% of 138 periods.
5-year windows
Ahead in 56.1% of 114 periods.
7-year windows
Ahead in 60.0% of 90 periods.
10-year windows
Ahead in 68.5% of 54 periods.
Each window is compared against the index over the identical calendar months, on the same adjusted basis — not against an assumed rate of return.
How This Is Calculated
Windows step forward one month at a time, so they share most of their months with each other. That is what makes this a description of MCX's actual history rather than a set of independent trials — and why the spread should not be read as a probability.
Measured on month-end closing prices adjusted for dividends and splits, so dividends count as reinvested. A window that opened or closed mid-month would differ a little in either direction.
MCXis in today's Nifty 500 universe. Companies that delisted or collapsed are not on this site at all, so the worst outcome shown here is the worst among the survivors.
Measured on data to 2026-08-31, from 2012-03-01. Full definitions are on our methodology page.
HELP CENTER
Everything you need to know about this page and the data presented.
Over 10 years, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. has been through 54 separate 10 years holding periods — one starting every month. The median returned 22.1% a year, the worst 1.3% and the best 34.4%. A rolling return measures every possible start date instead of one, which is why it answers a question a single headline CAGR cannot: how much the outcome depended on when you happened to buy.
No — not in any of the 54 10 years periods the record covers. The weakest of them still compounded at 1.3% a year. That is a statement about the past, not a guarantee about any future 10 years, and it is measured only over the years Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. has been listed.
-10.0% a year, for the five years beginning January 2013. For contrast the best 5 years returned 62.5% a year, starting August 2021, and the median across all 114 periods was 11.8%. The gap between those two numbers is the part of the outcome that came down to timing rather than to the company.
On this record, yes. 1 year outcomes ranged from -69.2% to 210.3% a year — a spread of 279.5%. 10 years outcomes ranged from 1.3% to 34.4%, a spread of 33.1%. Longer holding periods narrowed the range of results, which is the usual pattern and the reason this page publishes every window rather than one. Narrowing the range is not the same as removing the risk.
In 68.5% of the 54 10 years periods both series cover. Each window is compared against the index over the identical months, not against an assumed index return, so the comparison is a like-for-like record rather than a model.
Windows step forward one month at a time on month-end closing prices adjusted for dividends and stock splits, so dividends are treated as reinvested. A window length is only published once there are at least twelve complete windows behind it — fewer than that describes an anecdote, not a distribution. Overlapping windows share months by construction, which is what makes this a description of the actual history of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. rather than a sample of independent trials. Companies that delisted are not on this site at all, a survivorship bias worth holding in mind.
That is not a question this page answers, and we do not make recommendations. What it can show you is the full range of what every holding period in the listed history of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. actually produced — including the worst ones, which most performance figures leave out. Those are records of what happened, not forecasts. A stock that never had a losing decade may still have one, and holding a single company is a materially different risk from holding an index.
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