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Nifty 500 P/E ratio today

Price to earnings (P/E), price to book (P/B) and dividend yield for the Nifty 500, which is currently fairly valued — the 49th percentile of 6,894 daily closes since 1999. Close of 27 Oct 2026.

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How the Nifty 500’s valuation reads today

  • Against the market. The Nifty 500 trades at 1.10× the Nifty 50’s P/E, against a median of 1.04× across 6,894 days they were both priced — a wider premium than usual. A sector can look dear on its own numbers while being cheap against the market, and that gap is usually the more useful of the two.
  • The range it has actually traded in. Its P/E has been as low as 9.29 (Oct 2008) and as high as 46.29 (Jan 2021). Both ends are real closes, not a model — and the high end of an index P/E is usually an earnings collapse rather than a price melt-up, which is why the bands below are percentiles and not a mean.
  • Versus a year ago. 20.94 today, down from 24.88 a year ago. The ratio moves on price and on earnings, so a falling P/E can mean the index got cheaper or that its constituents earned more — the Nifty 500 level itself is what separates the two.
  • The metrics disagree. Earnings say cheap (P/E 20.94 against a median of 21.09) while dividends say expensive (yield 1.28% against 1.31%). That split is usually a payout-ratio story rather than a valuation one: earnings and dividends do not have to move together, and a company can grow profits for years without raising its dividend.
Price to earnings
20.94Fairly valued

49th percentile of 6,894 days · median 21.09

Price to book
3.05Fairly valued

43rd percentile of 6,894 days · median 3.16

Dividend yield
1.28%Slightly expensive

45th percentile of 6,894 days · median 1.31

Where the Nifty 500 P/E ratio sits today

Valuation zones for the Nifty 500 price to earnings
ZoneP/E rangeWhat it has meant
Undervaluedbelow 14.72Historically cheap — the zone that has rewarded adding, not waiting.
Fairly valuedyou are here14.72 – 21.09Nothing to act on. Keep SIPs running at their normal size.
Slightly expensive21.09 – 30.01Above the historical middle. Stagger a lump sum rather than timing it.
Expensiveabove 30.01Historically dear — rebalancing to your target allocation is the honest response.

Bands are the 10th and 90th percentiles of 6,894 daily closes, with the median as the middle line — so the cheapest and dearest tenth of this index’s own history bound the outer zones, and one freak print cannot move them. They describe where this index has traded, not where it should — a market can stay expensive for years, and this is not a signal to act on.

When the Nifty 500 P/E was here, what came next

For every month-end since 29 Feb 2012: the index’s annualised return over the following 1, 3 and 5 years, grouped by the valuation zone it started in. Median, with the worst and best start underneath.

Forward returns of the Nifty 500 by starting P/E zone
Started inNext 1YNext 3YNext 5Y
Undervaluedtoo fewtoo fewtoo few
Fairly valuedyou are here
+19.6%
-1.8% to +52.3%
6% lost money
+16.0%
+9.3% to +21.3%
0% lost money
+14.8%
+11.1% to +19.0%
0% lost money
Slightly expensive
+8.9%
-18.8% to +76.0%
18% lost money
+12.4%
-4.3% to +27.7%
4% lost money
+12.7%
+0.1% to +25.0%
0% lost money
Expensive
+5.3%
-27.5% to +61.1%
41% lost money
+15.2%
+1.5% to +23.6%
0% lost money
+13.5%
+9.0% to +20.5%
0% lost money

Price return only (index levels carry no dividends, so each figure understates an investor’s return by about the dividend yield). Start months overlap: a 5-year window spans 60 of them, so the counts are not independent observations. A zone needs 12 starts before it is summarised. The past spread of outcomes is wide in every zone — this is a record, not a forecast.

All three, since 1999

Each cell is the median of that month’s daily closes — one day’s print can be an earnings-revision artefact, and on a grid this size that day would colour the whole month. Hover a cell for the trading-day count behind it, or the line above it for any day’s close. All three are always shown; the buttons at the top only change which metric the valuation zones describe.

Nifty 500 P/E ratio, month by month

90th pct 30.01median 21.0910th pct 14.72
Price to earnings by month, 1999 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1999
13.15
13.20
14.77
13.71
14.92
15.26
17.35
18.13
20.51
22.75
20.85
23.57
2000
27.48
32.80
32.02
27.63
22.21
25.90
25.97
23.39
24.31
20.54
21.58
23.02
2001
20.06
21.15
16.91
15.80
16.87
16.03
14.84
14.77
12.54
13.00
14.02
15.12
2002
15.25
14.81
15.04
14.46
14.07
13.63
13.04
12.24
11.99
11.84
12.18
13.83
2003
14.02
13.73
13.37
12.88
13.68
15.20
15.23
16.36
15.66
16.57
14.58
16.23
2004
18.26
17.40
16.94
17.96
15.67
14.38
14.87
13.71
14.71
14.48
15.20
16.19
2005
16.32
17.16
17.57
16.54
16.79
17.62
18.09
17.96
18.55
16.18
16.84
18.25
2006
18.89
19.55
20.63
20.97
20.44
16.35
16.81
17.75
18.69
19.58
19.23
19.60
2007
20.01
18.33
16.71
17.59
17.83
18.49
19.55
17.97
18.95
22.28
22.83
25.08
2008
25.32
20.29
18.09
18.43
18.63
16.58
14.88
16.06
15.46
11.87
11.23
11.58
2009
11.52
12.24
12.16
14.90
17.55
19.05
18.64
19.08
20.15
20.73
19.75
20.34
2010
21.16
18.54
19.25
19.61
18.49
19.30
20.00
21.06
22.54
23.50
22.64
21.73
2011
20.55
18.90
19.10
20.48
18.92
18.71
18.99
16.83
16.86
16.62
16.96
16.05
2012
16.56
18.43
18.26
18.23
16.88
16.85
17.17
17.68
18.84
19.19
17.62
18.34
2013
18.60
17.80
17.48
17.14
17.98
17.56
17.66
15.91
16.77
17.40
17.76
18.62
2014
18.64
17.64
18.62
19.24
20.21
21.41
21.68
21.16
21.84
21.16
22.03
21.83
2015
22.48
24.20
24.53
24.58
24.04
24.09
25.14
25.35
23.59
24.10
23.10
23.14
2016
22.25
21.06
22.14
23.21
23.11
25.48
26.68
27.30
28.29
27.52
25.00
24.85
2017
26.16
26.72
26.96
27.08
27.88
28.02
28.77
29.20
30.09
30.76
31.22
31.71
2018
32.87
30.63
29.79
31.05
30.97
30.87
32.41
33.45
33.27
28.56
29.32
29.40
2019
29.33
29.28
30.96
31.25
30.61
31.14
30.17
29.02
28.63
28.09
29.47
30.84
2020
30.97
30.75
23.37
23.20
23.91
27.63
31.41
35.92
37.59
42.02
39.41
42.19
2021
45.24
44.00
43.44
35.54
32.72
31.00
30.15
27.21
27.92
28.50
26.71
25.05
2022
26.02
23.42
22.95
23.81
20.83
20.09
20.79
21.95
22.23
21.87
22.77
23.17
2023
22.64
21.75
21.06
21.50
22.41
22.95
24.54
23.23
23.54
23.22
22.13
23.77
2024
24.50
24.37
24.31
25.04
24.45
25.78
26.73
26.55
27.39
26.90
25.62
26.14
2025
24.60
22.96
22.47
23.62
24.48
24.72
25.06
24.00
24.02
24.60
24.30
24.22
2026
24.04
23.79
21.98
23.24
22.71
22.69
22.95
22.94
22.15
21.56
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Nifty 500 P/B ratio, month by month

90th pct 4.20median 3.1610th pct 1.87
Price to book by month, 1999 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1999
1.55
1.58
1.77
1.64
1.86
1.91
2.17
2.27
2.41
2.54
2.34
2.70
2000
3.15
3.69
3.28
2.83
2.27
2.66
2.68
2.41
2.54
2.14
2.25
2.42
2001
2.17
2.27
1.82
1.70
1.84
1.74
1.63
1.63
1.39
1.45
1.56
1.70
2002
1.72
1.71
1.73
1.71
1.71
1.70
1.66
1.56
1.54
1.51
1.56
1.63
2003
1.65
1.62
1.56
1.50
1.59
1.79
1.90
2.06
2.22
2.35
2.38
2.66
2004
3.00
2.85
2.78
2.95
2.58
2.37
2.45
2.42
2.56
2.59
2.71
2.97
2005
3.08
3.25
3.33
3.08
3.14
3.27
3.33
3.45
3.58
3.26
3.39
3.67
2006
3.80
3.93
4.20
4.61
4.61
3.58
3.53
3.71
3.83
4.00
4.15
4.22
2007
4.35
4.37
3.98
4.25
4.55
4.46
4.63
4.33
4.46
5.01
5.30
5.89
2008
5.93
5.05
4.37
4.45
4.66
3.85
3.31
3.48
3.13
2.26
1.98
2.02
2009
1.96
1.91
1.90
2.32
2.72
3.15
3.06
3.14
3.25
3.21
3.16
3.23
2010
3.34
3.10
3.24
3.31
3.20
3.29
3.42
3.31
3.44
3.46
3.44
3.33
2011
3.18
3.00
3.04
3.28
3.09
3.04
3.05
2.67
2.56
2.55
2.46
2.30
2012
2.35
2.55
2.54
2.53
2.38
2.40
2.48
2.44
2.50
2.56
2.50
2.60
2013
2.66
2.58
2.51
2.47
2.62
2.49
2.45
2.22
2.30
2.35
2.38
2.43
2014
2.43
2.36
2.53
2.67
2.83
2.98
3.00
2.96
3.04
2.93
3.10
3.07
2015
3.15
3.25
3.25
3.25
3.17
3.09
3.12
3.09
2.83
2.92
2.83
2.82
2016
2.72
2.57
2.67
2.83
2.83
2.93
3.02
2.99
3.00
3.00
2.83
2.82
2017
2.92
3.08
3.17
3.28
3.36
3.39
3.37
3.31
3.35
3.29
3.35
3.37
2018
3.52
3.39
3.30
3.45
3.49
3.47
3.40
3.50
3.40
3.07
3.17
3.22
2019
3.17
3.16
3.35
3.46
3.43
3.46
3.32
3.10
3.05
3.18
3.33
3.37
2020
3.42
3.25
2.42
2.45
2.47
2.70
2.94
3.02
3.02
3.14
3.36
3.63
2021
3.81
4.01
4.00
3.96
4.10
4.26
4.18
4.11
4.27
4.37
4.35
4.22
2022
4.39
4.23
4.14
4.33
3.98
3.85
3.87
4.06
4.04
3.96
4.10
4.14
2023
4.05
3.93
3.79
3.89
4.05
4.20
4.48
4.41
4.27
3.46
3.52
3.79
2024
3.92
4.03
4.03
4.16
4.22
4.41
4.53
4.50
4.40
4.08
3.92
3.98
2025
3.74
3.62
3.54
3.74
3.94
3.95
3.90
3.60
3.56
3.67
3.70
3.68
2026
3.65
3.64
3.37
3.56
3.58
3.50
3.46
3.31
3.17
3.06
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Nifty 500 dividend yield, month by monthgreen is a HIGH yield, which is the cheap end

90th pct 2.17median 1.3110th pct 1.04
Dividend yield by month, 1999 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1999
2.12
2.10
1.88
2.02
1.79
1.74
1.54
1.54
1.43
1.34
1.45
1.27
2000
1.08
0.92
1.05
1.22
1.52
1.29
1.29
1.42
1.36
1.62
1.54
1.44
2001
1.68
1.60
1.99
2.13
1.96
2.02
2.03
2.04
2.39
2.29
2.13
1.95
2002
1.94
2.42
2.38
2.41
2.41
2.45
2.52
2.69
2.74
2.82
2.74
2.83
2003
2.79
2.85
2.94
3.30
3.10
2.57
2.43
2.25
2.41
2.27
2.48
2.23
2004
1.97
2.08
2.13
2.00
2.29
2.67
2.58
2.48
2.37
2.52
2.40
1.93
2005
1.86
1.77
1.74
1.81
1.78
1.67
1.60
1.56
1.49
1.73
1.67
1.54
2006
1.50
1.45
1.36
1.24
1.24
1.61
1.57
1.49
1.42
1.35
1.27
1.25
2007
1.20
1.20
1.31
1.23
1.16
1.16
1.10
1.16
1.11
0.99
0.94
0.85
2008
0.84
0.99
1.12
1.10
1.05
1.26
1.42
1.34
1.43
1.85
2.12
2.05
2009
2.08
2.13
2.14
1.74
1.48
1.25
1.28
1.22
1.15
1.09
1.07
1.04
2010
0.99
1.06
1.02
1.00
1.03
1.00
0.97
1.09
1.05
1.03
1.03
1.06
2011
1.12
1.18
1.17
1.08
1.22
1.26
1.25
1.27
1.50
1.50
1.55
1.65
2012
1.62
1.50
1.53
1.54
1.64
1.59
1.54
1.55
1.52
1.45
1.46
1.40
2013
1.37
1.41
1.45
1.48
1.39
1.46
1.46
1.60
1.56
1.56
1.55
1.53
2014
1.52
1.57
1.46
1.40
1.36
1.27
1.24
1.26
1.22
1.31
1.27
1.28
2015
1.25
1.23
1.25
1.25
1.36
1.40
1.35
1.31
1.40
1.37
1.41
1.42
2016
1.48
1.57
1.51
1.42
1.38
1.30
1.23
1.23
1.22
1.22
1.31
1.31
2017
1.27
1.21
1.18
1.15
1.12
1.09
1.00
0.91
0.88
0.98
0.94
0.94
2018
0.90
0.94
1.11
1.06
1.06
1.09
1.08
1.07
1.08
1.21
1.16
1.14
2019
1.15
1.17
1.11
1.08
1.12
1.16
1.23
1.30
1.32
1.28
1.22
1.21
2020
1.19
1.20
1.61
1.60
1.59
1.46
1.41
1.40
1.42
1.44
1.34
1.25
2021
1.17
1.12
1.11
0.97
0.95
1.08
1.04
1.05
1.07
1.07
1.06
1.13
2022
1.11
1.19
1.20
1.12
1.33
1.42
1.39
1.37
1.33
1.32
1.28
1.28
2023
1.33
1.40
1.44
1.41
1.38
1.37
1.27
1.29
1.27
1.27
1.28
1.19
2024
1.15
1.11
1.11
1.04
1.08
1.05
1.04
1.06
1.05
1.08
1.13
1.10
2025
1.18
1.27
1.27
1.20
1.06
1.07
1.13
1.20
1.19
1.16
1.16
1.16
2026
1.17
1.12
1.20
1.14
1.14
1.08
1.03
0.98
0.98
1.30
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Frequently asked questions

What is the Nifty 500 P/E ratio today?

The Nifty 500 closed at a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.94 on 27 October 2026. NSE publishes it once a day after the close, on a consolidated trailing-twelve-month basis, so it moves on the index and on quarterly earnings revisions — there is no intraday figure.

Is the Nifty 500 overvalued right now?

Against its own history it is fairly valued: a P/E of 20.94 is the 49th percentile of 6,894 daily closes, against a median of 21.09 over that span. That describes where this index has traded, not where it should — a market can stay expensive for years, and this is not a signal to act on.

What is a good P/E ratio for the Nifty 500?

There is no single good number, but there is a measured middle: 14.72 to 30.01 is the middle 80% of 6,894 daily closes, and the median sits at 21.09. Below 14.72 is the cheapest tenth of this index's own history and above 30.01 the dearest tenth. Compare it to the index's own past rather than to another market's — earnings mix and growth differ, so an Indian P/E and a US one are not the same quantity.

What is the Nifty 500 P/B ratio?

The Nifty 500 price-to-book ratio is 3.05 as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 3.16. P/B compares the index to the book value of its constituents' assets, which makes it the steadier of the two — book value does not swing on one quarter's earnings the way a P/E denominator can.

What is the Nifty 500 dividend yield?

The Nifty 500 dividend yield is 1.28% as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 1.31%. It reads backwards from the other two: a HIGH yield is the cheap end, because the same dividends are being bought for a lower price.

How often does this page update, and where do the numbers come from?

From NSE's own daily index file, which carries P/E, P/B and dividend yield for every index it prices — 144 of them have a meaningful P/E today. It is published once after each close and picked up by the hourly refresh, so the figures here are the last published close, never a live quote.

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How to read an index P/E ratio

Consolidated trailing-twelve-month, free-float weighted, one value a day — and why the absolute number tells you almost nothing on its own.

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