

Market participants are given four weeks' notice before they make any changes to the index. Stocks in the Nifty 50 are replaced (if any) on the last trading day of March, June, September, and December. The data considered is as per the month ending January and July. It is refreshed semi-annually based on averages from the six months' data. The list of Nifty 50 companies is not static. Some of the features of the Nifty 50 index include-Ī) The base year in the calculation is 1995, and the base value at which the index started trading was 1000ī) The Nifty 50 index is computed using the top 50 stocks on NSEĬ) The selection of Nifty 50 companies is based on the free-float market capitalizationĭ) The Nifty index is managed and owned by IISL (India Index Services and Products Limited)Į) The choice of Nifty 50 companies is made from different sectors As a result, it is regarded as an accurate representation of the Indian stock market.

Even though the Nifty index only includes 50 of the 1600 companies that trade on the NSE, it accounts for up to 66% of the NSE's float-adjusted market capitalization (float-adjusted means when an index considers only the shares that are available for investors and not held by other companies or government). The Nifty 50 index measures the performance of the top 50 blue-chip companies on the National Stock Exchange, as per their market capitalization. Benchmarks are indices that combine multiple securities to represent a specific aspect of the market. For example, Nifty-50 is the benchmark index of the NSE (National Stock Exchange) of India. Indexes are crucial because they serve as a representation of a country's market and economy. When we talk about the 'index of a stock market,' it means a stock market portfolio consisting of its securities based on their market capitalization and category.
