Stocks that turned ₹1 lakh into ₹1 crore

27 of the roughly 500 companies we track multiplied invested money at least 100 times over one of the periods we measure — 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 or 20 years. The quickest to do it was KEI Industries Ltd., which reached 371.1× in 15 years. That is a count of what happened, over a universe chosen after the fact — see the survivorship question below.

Eicher Motors Ltd. shows the largest multiple on this board at 461.0× over 20 years — ₹1.00L becoming about ₹4.61Cr. Returns are measured on the dividend-adjusted closing price, so dividends are counted as reinvested rather than ignored.

A stock that returns some multiple of what was put into it — a "ten-bagger" turned ₹1 into ₹10. The term comes from Peter Lynch. It describes an outcome after the fact and is not a category of stock you can identify in advance, which is the main reason it is worth being careful with.

It does, and heavily. This universe is the Nifty 500 as it stands today, so it contains the companies that grew into the index and excludes every business that delisted, collapsed or was absorbed along the way. A list of past multibaggers is therefore assembled from the winners by construction. The honest reading is "these are the outcomes that survived", not "this is what a portfolio would have returned".

No, and we would not suggest trying. A high past multiple tells you what a business and its share price already did; it carries no information about what happens next, and many of the largest multiples here came from a low base, a favourable cycle, or a re-rating that cannot repeat indefinitely. ReturnScreener publishes historical records and is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser — we do not make recommendations or predictions.