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Nifty Smallcap 50 P/E ratio today

Price to earnings (P/E), price to book (P/B) and dividend yield for the Nifty Smallcap 50, which is currently slightly expensive — the 56th percentile of 2,506 daily closes since 2016. Close of 11 Sept 2026.

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How the Nifty Smallcap 50’s valuation reads today

  • Against the market. The Nifty Smallcap 50 trades at 1.61× the Nifty 50’s P/E, against a median of 1.34× across 2,506 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 12.54 (Mar 2020) and as high as 29450.97 (Jul 2018). 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. 31.85 today, down from 33.77 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 50 level itself is what separates the two.
Price to earnings
31.85Slightly expensive

56th percentile of 2,506 days · median 30.55

Price to book
3.42Slightly expensive

61st percentile of 2,578 days · median 3.02

Dividend yield
0.58%Slightly expensive

11th percentile of 2,578 days · median 0.95

Where the Nifty Smallcap 50 P/E ratio sits today

Valuation zones for the Nifty Smallcap 50 price to earnings
ZoneP/E rangeWhat it has meant
Undervaluedbelow 19.66Historically cheap — the zone that has rewarded adding, not waiting.
Fairly valued19.66 – 30.55Nothing to act on. Keep SIPs running at their normal size.
Slightly expensiveyou are here30.55 – 64.41Above the ten-year middle. Stagger a lump sum rather than timing it.
Expensiveabove 64.41Historically dear — rebalancing to your target allocation is the honest response.

Bands are the 10th and 90th percentiles of 2,506 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.

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 50 P/E ratio, month by month

above +1 SD 660.38median 30.55below −1 SD -537.37
Price to earnings by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2016
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28.67
28.42
36.68
39.44
40.32
50.67
65.31
71.16
63.16
2017
65.69
54.00
49.67
58.40
63.78
43.63
42.99
43.34
45.11
40.56
54.45
53.94
2018
58.20
65.89
63.88
1134.77
109.06
234.97
497.81
217.97
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64.42
48.83
2019
55.09
56.84
66.94
22.95
20.02
20.40
15.76
14.02
14.12
22.43
23.20
23.18
2020
24.15
23.62
15.85
14.50
14.55
17.32
18.94
24.43
28.34
29.67
31.29
35.44
2021
38.96
39.69
42.02
65.13
74.03
64.36
59.77
36.21
39.08
31.25
32.74
32.26
2022
34.11
31.03
30.19
31.91
24.90
22.87
23.42
22.67
22.94
19.33
20.00
20.82
2023
20.21
20.09
19.84
16.93
17.49
18.99
20.29
23.32
25.41
25.49
25.75
27.66
2024
29.21
29.58
27.73
24.70
23.80
25.76
26.80
26.60
27.80
32.02
30.74
31.93
2025
28.98
23.80
23.33
30.62
31.92
34.20
35.28
33.30
33.41
30.19
32.00
31.59
2026
31.17
30.13
28.14
27.49
29.15
30.71
32.30
31.99
32.03
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cheapestdearest· shaded by rank among all 124 months, not by absolute value — the series is skewed enough that a linear ramp would flatten a decade into one colour

Nifty Smallcap 50 P/B ratio, month by month

above +1 SD 3.74median 3.02below −1 SD 1.70
Price to book by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2016
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1.02
1.04
1.09
1.17
1.17
1.21
1.46
1.31
1.30
2017
1.38
1.49
1.63
1.92
2.05
2.02
2.06
1.99
2.07
1.98
1.98
1.94
2018
2.10
1.92
1.82
1.81
1.81
1.69
1.67
1.73
1.64
1.38
1.42
1.47
2019
1.41
1.31
1.50
1.81
1.76
1.67
1.55
1.38
1.41
1.64
1.73
1.73
2020
1.97
1.86
1.29
1.19
1.17
1.33
1.95
2.21
2.30
2.58
2.62
3.04
2021
3.37
3.67
3.78
3.47
3.74
4.05
4.13
3.81
3.98
3.74
3.66
3.57
2022
3.78
3.38
3.29
3.18
2.70
2.53
2.62
2.75
2.73
3.56
3.55
3.66
2023
3.56
3.49
3.42
3.37
3.10
3.31
3.55
3.66
3.86
3.03
3.29
3.51
2024
3.72
3.86
3.58
3.58
3.66
3.99
4.11
4.08
3.92
3.76
3.75
3.88
2025
3.50
3.19
3.13
3.95
4.20
4.37
4.38
3.91
3.89
3.85
3.88
3.77
2026
3.74
3.71
3.46
3.20
3.36
3.39
3.51
3.48
3.46
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Nifty Smallcap 50 dividend yield, month by monthgreen is a HIGH yield, which is the cheap end

above +1 SD 1.40median 0.95below −1 SD 0.61
Dividend yield by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2016
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1.46
1.44
1.33
1.24
1.27
1.09
0.90
0.96
0.98
2017
0.92
0.85
0.79
0.62
0.58
0.55
0.51
0.44
0.42
0.33
0.26
0.26
2018
0.24
0.26
0.48
0.45
0.47
0.51
0.58
0.63
0.70
1.01
1.02
1.01
2019
0.98
1.06
0.95
0.92
0.98
0.99
1.07
1.21
1.21
1.19
1.06
1.07
2020
1.00
1.03
1.50
1.63
1.65
1.46
1.25
1.32
1.52
1.72
1.73
1.67
2021
1.50
1.38
1.34
0.73
0.69
0.71
0.73
0.82
0.83
0.86
0.90
0.89
2022
0.85
1.00
1.06
0.98
1.19
1.10
1.11
1.06
1.02
1.32
1.32
1.28
2023
1.31
1.83
2.03
2.16
2.00
1.88
1.73
1.74
1.65
1.32
1.28
1.21
2024
1.13
0.88
0.89
0.91
0.87
0.82
0.84
0.89
0.81
0.81
0.81
0.82
2025
0.93
1.04
1.06
1.20
0.74
0.69
0.65
0.78
0.76
0.73
0.77
0.78
2026
0.78
0.77
0.80
0.72
0.69
0.66
0.65
0.60
0.58
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Frequently asked questions

What is the Nifty Smallcap 50 P/E ratio today?

The Nifty Smallcap 50 closed at a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.85 on 11 September 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 50 overvalued right now?

Against its own history it is slightly expensive: a P/E of 31.85 is the 56th percentile of 2,506 daily closes, with a ten-year median of 30.55. 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 50?

There is no single good number, but there is a measured middle: 19.66 to 64.41 is the middle 80% of 2,506 daily closes, and the median sits at 30.55. Below 19.66 is the cheapest tenth of this index's own history and above 64.41 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 50 P/B ratio?

The Nifty Smallcap 50 price-to-book ratio is 3.42 as of 11 September 2026, against a ten-year median of 3.02. 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 50 dividend yield?

The Nifty Smallcap 50 dividend yield is 0.58% as of 11 September 2026, against a ten-year median of 0.95%. 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 — 142 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 these numbers

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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