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Nifty Smallcap 250 P/E ratio today

Price to earnings (P/E), price to book (P/B) and dividend yield for the Nifty Smallcap 250, which is currently fairly valued — the 46th percentile of 2,437 daily closes since 2016. Close of 27 Oct 2026.

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How the Nifty Smallcap 250’s valuation reads today

Against the market. The Nifty Smallcap 250 trades at 1.67× the Nifty 50’s P/E, against a median of 1.36× across 2,437 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 16.90 (Mar 2023) and as high as 44711.18 (Jul 2016). 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. 31.77 today, up from 31.04 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 Smallcap 250 level itself is what separates the two.
The metrics disagree. Earnings say cheap (P/E 31.77 against a median of 32.58) while dividends say expensive (yield 0.76% against 0.90%). 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

31.77Fairly valued

46th percentile of 2,437 days · median 32.58

Price to book

3.26Slightly expensive

60th percentile of 2,609 days · median 2.98

Dividend yield

0.76%Slightly expensive

31st percentile of 2,609 days · median 0.90

Where the Nifty Smallcap 250 P/E ratio sits today

Valuation zones for the Nifty Smallcap 250 price to earnings
Zone	P/E range	What it has meant
Undervalued	below 20.40	Historically cheap — the zone that has rewarded adding, not waiting.
Fairly valuedyou are here	20.40 – 32.58	Nothing to act on. Keep SIPs running at their normal size.
Slightly expensive	32.58 – 98.95	Above the historical middle. Stagger a lump sum rather than timing it.
Expensive	above 98.95	Historically dear — rebalancing to your target allocation is the honest response.

Bands are the 10th and 90th percentiles of 2,437 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 Smallcap 250 P/E was here, what came next

For every month-end since 29 Apr 2016: 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 Smallcap 250 by starting P/E zone
Started in	Next 1Y	Next 3Y	Next 5Y
Undervalued	too few	too few	too few
Fairly valuedyou are here	+4.9% -9.2% to +111.4% 37% lost money	+23.8% +13.2% to +38.0% 0% lost money	too few
Slightly expensive	-1.6% -41.6% to +125.3% 53% lost money	+22.7% -15.7% to +40.6% 15% lost money	+20.9% +5.4% to +36.5% 0% lost money
Expensive	+12.0% -27.9% to +38.9% 33% lost money	-3.3% -17.0% to +15.4% 67% lost money	+13.0% +6.2% to +14.0% 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 2016

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 Smallcap 250 P/E ratio, month by month

90th pct 98.95median 32.5810th pct 20.40

Price to earnings by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2016	·	·	·	86.53	92.36	5321.51	2004.13	38361.13	·	6373.59	·	·
2017	·	·	99.48	102.99	108.90	90.44	110.37	111.05	101.07	76.42	86.18	88.94
2018	93.73	96.03	89.74	108.18	77.15	84.02	106.83	119.64	63.81	61.67	62.77	41.38
2019	42.76	42.16	46.20	34.25	30.79	40.76	33.44	30.11	30.90	50.06	62.88	55.10
2020	51.80	92.65	65.57	59.77	61.94	95.90	24.62	28.68	32.41	57.42	51.47	40.38
2021	43.45	41.16	43.22	43.53	44.98	37.60	36.73	29.20	30.71	30.11	29.44	29.94
2022	31.84	27.54	27.13	25.21	20.86	19.80	20.34	19.29	19.71	18.99	18.98	19.23
2023	18.89	18.11	17.59	17.59	18.62	20.57	21.61	22.84	24.54	24.63	24.94	26.36
2024	28.03	28.74	27.30	28.38	27.79	30.01	31.55	30.82	31.94	32.78	32.19	34.88
2025	32.41	28.02	27.36	30.00	31.52	32.74	33.79	31.96	32.36	30.70	29.19	28.69
2026	28.45	26.38	24.78	29.49	30.14	34.24	35.95	34.05	33.74	33.92	·	·

cheapestdearest· shaded by rank among all 122 months, not by absolute value — the series is skewed enough that a linear ramp would flatten a decade into one colour

Nifty Smallcap 250 P/B ratio, month by month

90th pct 3.89median 2.9810th pct 1.64

Price to book by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2016	·	·	·	1.40	1.42	1.46	1.56	1.56	1.61	1.65	1.55	1.54
2017	1.62	1.75	1.85	2.09	2.18	2.18	2.20	2.12	2.20	2.28	2.35	2.41
2018	2.59	2.38	2.29	2.24	2.23	2.10	1.96	2.03	1.96	1.84	1.88	1.90
2019	1.86	1.77	1.97	2.11	2.05	1.99	1.90	1.70	1.76	1.66	1.74	1.73
2020	1.98	1.97	1.43	1.31	1.30	1.46	1.85	2.02	2.09	2.20	2.25	2.52
2021	2.71	2.90	3.03	2.96	3.23	3.49	3.69	3.48	3.59	3.67	3.69	3.65
2022	3.90	3.65	3.54	3.57	3.14	2.99	3.08	3.24	3.25	2.98	3.00	3.10
2023	3.04	2.95	2.85	2.98	3.20	3.42	3.59	3.71	3.66	3.15	3.31	3.50
2024	3.72	3.90	3.67	3.95	4.02	4.33	4.50	4.45	4.32	4.25	4.13	4.22
2025	3.81	3.44	3.35	3.63	3.87	4.05	4.16	3.75	3.66	3.64	3.62	3.50
2026	3.45	3.42	3.19	3.40	3.58	3.66	3.70	3.61	3.46	3.38	·	·

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Nifty Smallcap 250 dividend yield, month by monthgreen is a HIGH yield, which is the cheap end

90th pct 1.33median 0.9010th pct 0.58

Dividend yield by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2016	·	·	·	1.16	1.15	1.10	0.99	1.02	0.96	0.84	0.90	0.91
2017	0.86	0.81	0.76	0.71	0.68	0.67	0.61	0.54	0.51	0.47	0.42	0.39
2018	0.36	0.40	0.51	0.52	0.54	0.57	0.61	0.62	0.70	0.95	0.95	0.95
2019	0.94	1.00	0.90	0.94	0.98	1.00	1.09	1.23	1.20	1.32	1.26	1.27
2020	1.17	1.17	1.62	1.77	1.79	1.59	1.54	1.65	1.75	1.76	1.72	1.58
2021	1.46	1.37	1.29	0.66	0.63	0.62	0.61	0.76	0.77	0.84	0.89	0.89
2022	0.84	0.91	0.94	0.93	1.04	1.14	1.14	1.08	1.04	1.11	1.08	1.06
2023	1.08	1.27	1.32	1.28	1.25	1.15	1.07	1.08	1.06	1.00	0.97	0.92
2024	0.86	0.85	0.88	0.82	0.85	0.81	0.83	0.87	0.83	0.85	0.87	0.86
2025	0.94	0.97	1.00	0.88	0.70	0.66	0.62	0.68	0.70	0.68	0.72	0.73
2026	0.74	0.74	0.78	0.72	0.70	0.67	0.62	0.58	0.56	0.75	·	·

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Nifty Smallcap 250 P/E ratio today?

The Nifty Smallcap 250 closed at a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.77 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 Smallcap 250 overvalued right now?

Against its own history it is fairly valued: a P/E of 31.77 is the 46th percentile of 2,437 daily closes, against a median of 32.58 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 Smallcap 250?

There is no single good number, but there is a measured middle: 20.40 to 98.95 is the middle 80% of 2,437 daily closes, and the median sits at 32.58. Below 20.40 is the cheapest tenth of this index's own history and above 98.95 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 Smallcap 250 P/B ratio?

The Nifty Smallcap 250 price-to-book ratio is 3.26 as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 2.98. 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 Smallcap 250 dividend yield?

The Nifty Smallcap 250 dividend yield is 0.76% as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 0.90%. 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.