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NIFTY50 Equal Weight P/E ratio today

Price to earnings (P/E), price to book (P/B) and dividend yield for the NIFTY50 Equal Weight, which is currently fairly valued — the 48th percentile of 2,355 daily closes since 2016. Close of 27 Oct 2026.

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How the NIFTY50 Equal Weight’s valuation reads today

  • Against the market. The NIFTY50 Equal Weight trades at 1.19× the Nifty 50’s P/E, against a median of 0.93× across 2,355 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 13.13 (Mar 2020) and as high as 38.81 (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. 22.70 today, down from 24.92 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 NIFTY50 Equal Weight level itself is what separates the two.
  • The metrics disagree. Earnings say cheap (P/E 22.70 against a median of 22.84) while dividends say expensive (yield 1.50% against 1.58%). 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
22.70Fairly valued

48th percentile of 2,355 days · median 22.84

Price to book
3.19Fairly valued

31st percentile of 2,355 days · median 3.50

Dividend yield
1.50%Slightly expensive

39th percentile of 2,355 days · median 1.58

Where the NIFTY50 Equal Weight P/E ratio sits today

Valuation zones for the NIFTY50 Equal Weight price to earnings
ZoneP/E rangeWhat it has meant
Undervaluedbelow 18.37Historically cheap — the zone that has rewarded adding, not waiting.
Fairly valuedyou are here18.37 – 22.84Nothing to act on. Keep SIPs running at their normal size.
Slightly expensive22.84 – 26.05Above the historical middle. Stagger a lump sum rather than timing it.
Expensiveabove 26.05Historically dear — rebalancing to your target allocation is the honest response.

Bands are the 10th and 90th percentiles of 2,355 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 NIFTY50 Equal Weight P/E was here, what came next

For every month-end since 07 Jul 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 NIFTY50 Equal Weight by starting P/E zone
Started inNext 1YNext 3YNext 5Y
Undervalued
+17.3%
+3.2% to +86.2%
0% lost money
+17.0%
+13.4% to +31.7%
0% lost money
too few
Fairly valuedyou are here
+8.5%
-33.5% to +66.3%
22% lost money
+17.0%
+9.7% to +28.3%
0% lost money
+18.3%
+9.4% to +24.7%
0% lost money
Slightly expensive
+4.7%
-22.5% to +58.3%
31% lost money
+8.8%
-6.8% to +27.0%
26% lost money
+11.2%
+8.8% to +22.4%
0% lost money
Expensivetoo fewtoo fewtoo few

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.

NIFTY50 Equal Weight P/E ratio, month by month

90th pct 26.05median 22.8410th pct 18.37
Price to earnings by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2016
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·
·
·
·
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25.11
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·
·
·
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2017
·
·
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23.84
24.39
23.42
24.43
24.80
25.67
26.41
25.57
25.46
2018
25.87
24.32
23.58
25.11
25.17
25.38
24.01
24.62
24.01
20.64
21.19
21.52
2019
20.69
20.36
21.69
22.80
22.41
22.07
19.76
18.72
19.24
20.56
22.44
22.61
2020
22.19
22.85
17.70
15.63
15.91
20.84
24.92
28.62
30.14
30.34
30.87
35.28
2021
37.67
36.59
36.12
33.55
31.34
25.59
24.15
20.83
21.26
21.33
19.77
18.27
2022
18.47
16.77
16.34
19.61
17.56
17.22
16.37
17.96
18.16
17.83
19.27
19.94
2023
20.04
19.42
18.97
19.79
20.86
21.39
21.94
19.86
20.30
20.29
19.38
20.70
2024
21.96
22.59
22.67
22.94
22.05
22.88
23.67
24.35
25.25
24.52
22.94
23.03
2025
21.70
21.09
20.76
22.43
23.21
24.37
23.85
23.46
23.95
24.74
24.50
24.52
2026
24.58
25.33
23.44
24.89
25.00
24.84
24.12
24.24
23.38
22.97
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cheapestdearest· shaded by rank among all 116 months, not by absolute value — the series is skewed enough that a linear ramp would flatten a decade into one colour

NIFTY50 Equal Weight P/B ratio, month by month

90th pct 4.03median 3.5010th pct 2.47
Price to book by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2016
·
·
·
·
·
·
2.68
·
·
·
·
·
2017
·
·
·
3.10
3.15
3.08
3.13
3.17
3.21
3.33
3.31
3.30
2018
3.49
3.37
3.26
3.37
3.37
3.36
3.15
3.21
3.13
2.74
2.81
2.82
2019
2.65
2.62
2.85
2.98
2.94
2.94
2.71
2.48
2.46
2.43
2.54
2.52
2020
2.46
2.38
1.80
1.75
1.78
2.00
2.12
2.35
2.35
2.40
2.61
2.87
2021
3.12
3.30
3.33
3.54
3.72
3.84
3.82
3.82
3.93
3.92
3.90
3.73
2022
3.83
3.75
3.67
4.22
3.95
3.81
3.68
3.86
3.77
3.71
3.86
3.90
2023
3.92
3.82
3.70
3.90
4.06
4.22
4.40
4.33
4.27
3.21
3.28
3.51
2024
3.65
3.78
3.80
4.03
4.04
4.20
4.33
4.37
4.38
3.99
3.74
3.71
2025
3.51
3.46
3.41
3.43
3.60
3.59
3.50
3.40
3.48
3.84
3.84
3.83
2026
3.75
3.79
3.51
3.77
3.82
3.68
3.51
3.41
3.26
3.18
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NIFTY50 Equal Weight dividend yield, month by monthgreen is a HIGH yield, which is the cheap end

90th pct 2.10median 1.5810th pct 1.28
Dividend yield by month, 2016 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2016
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·
·
·
·
·
1.24
·
·
·
·
·
2017
·
·
·
1.29
1.27
1.27
1.22
1.20
1.16
1.48
1.43
1.49
2018
1.45
1.50
1.63
1.57
1.58
1.59
1.69
1.60
1.56
1.77
1.69
1.69
2019
1.74
1.77
1.66
1.58
1.62
1.64
1.88
2.00
2.06
1.94
1.86
1.88
2020
1.97
2.03
2.70
2.84
2.81
2.50
2.41
2.17
2.09
1.97
1.81
1.65
2021
1.60
1.52
1.50
1.44
1.40
1.48
1.59
1.64
1.80
1.89
1.96
2.15
2022
2.15
2.23
2.16
1.76
1.90
2.05
2.07
2.04
1.87
1.78
1.85
1.78
2023
1.76
1.87
1.90
1.75
1.69
1.67
1.59
1.64
1.58
1.53
1.50
1.48
2024
1.42
1.35
1.37
1.31
1.30
1.27
1.24
1.30
1.28
1.28
1.40
1.34
2025
1.40
1.56
1.54
1.40
1.33
1.35
1.42
1.46
1.42
1.39
1.39
1.40
2026
1.40
1.29
1.40
1.35
1.34
1.27
1.31
1.25
1.29
1.54
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Frequently asked questions

What is the NIFTY50 Equal Weight P/E ratio today?

The NIFTY50 Equal Weight closed at a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.70 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 NIFTY50 Equal Weight overvalued right now?

Against its own history it is fairly valued: a P/E of 22.70 is the 48th percentile of 2,355 daily closes, against a median of 22.84 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 NIFTY50 Equal Weight?

There is no single good number, but there is a measured middle: 18.37 to 26.05 is the middle 80% of 2,355 daily closes, and the median sits at 22.84. Below 18.37 is the cheapest tenth of this index's own history and above 26.05 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 NIFTY50 Equal Weight P/B ratio?

The NIFTY50 Equal Weight price-to-book ratio is 3.19 as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 3.50. 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 NIFTY50 Equal Weight dividend yield?

The NIFTY50 Equal Weight dividend yield is 1.50% as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 1.58%. 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 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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