The index rose 47%. The typical company doubled.
Each of the 398 companies sits at its five-year price change. The taller the hill, the more companies are there.
What the chart shows
398 of the 497 companies in the Nifty 500 were trading five years ago and can be compared close to close. 79 of them are worth less today than on 6 Oct 2021.
Five-year price change (6 Oct 2021 close to 6 Oct 2026 close)
- lost money 79
- up to 2x 122
- 2x to 3x 85
- 3x to 5x 55
- 5x to 10x 39
- more than 10x 18
The typical company is worth 2.0x what it was; half did better, half did worse. The Nifty 500 index itself rose 46.7% over the same two dates. The index weighs big companies more heavily; every company above counts once. 197 at least doubled and 112 at least tripled.
Furthest up
- Cupid 138.0x (₹2.4 to ₹324.2)
- GE Vernova T&D 33.8x (₹125.7 to ₹4,245)
- Apar Industries 27.4x (₹658.2 to ₹18,016)
- Transformers & Rectifiers 18.3x (₹15.5 to ₹283.7)
- Welspun Corp 18.2x (₹146.0 to ₹2,661)
Price change only, adjusted for share splits and bonus shares, dividends not counted. Left out: 97 companies with no price five years ago, 0 with too few trading days, 2 with a split or bonus the price data has not corrected for. This is today's index list looked backwards, so it is what today's biggest companies did, not what the whole market did. It describes two dates and nothing beyond them.
How it is measured
Which companies: the 497 companies in the Nifty 500 as it stands on 6 Oct 2026, looked backwards. Companies join that list after they grow, so this is what today's biggest companies did, not what the whole market did. Price change = the 6 Oct 2026 official close divided by the last close on or before 6 Oct 2021 (NSE, adjusted for share splits and bonus shares, dividends not counted). 398 of 497 companies are drawn.
Left out: 97 with no close five years ago, 0 with fewer than 900 trading days in the window, and 2 whose largest one-day close change fell outside 0.5x to 2x, which is a share split, bonus or company split-up the price data has not corrected for, not a real move (VEDL, HEGAM). The hill is a smoothed count: the horizontal scale is spaced by multiple, so the gap from 1x to 2x is the same as the gap from 5x to 10x, and height is companies per unit of that scale. The typical company is the middle one of the 398: half did better, half did worse.
The index line is the Nifty 500 itself over the same two dates, from the same price table; it weighs big companies more heavily, while every company in the hill counts once. Exchange and depository operators are counted but never named. This describes what happened between two dates and says nothing about any other five years.
How this chart has read
The finding in one sentence, on each day its numbers changed.
- 398 of the 497 companies in the Nifty 500 were trading five years ago and can be compared close to close. 79 of them are worth less today than on 6 Oct 2021.
- 400 of the 500 companies in the Nifty 500 were trading five years ago and can be compared close to close. 83 of them are worth less today than on 5 Oct 2021.
- 400 of the 500 companies in the Nifty 500 were trading five years ago and can be compared close to close. 82 of them are worth less today than on 1 Oct 2021.
- 400 of the 500 companies in the Nifty 500 were trading five years ago and can be compared close to close. 80 of them are worth less today than on 30 Sep 2021.
- 400 of the 500 companies in the Nifty 500 were trading five years ago and can be compared close to close. 81 of them are worth less today than on 29 Sep 2021.
- 400 of the 500 companies in the Nifty 500 were trading five years ago and can be compared close to close. 81 of them are worth less today than on 28 Sep 2021.
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