This is a very interesting message I received.

Analysis of the last 𝟰𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗫

🔰 There were around 𝟭𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 in the last 43 years.

Observations on positive and negative return occurrences.

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 – 53% time Positive and 47% time Negative.

𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 – 56% time Positive and 44% time Negative

𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗹𝘆 – 61% time Positive and 39% time Negative

𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆- 64% time Positive and 36% time Negative

𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 – 72% time Positive and 28% time Negative

𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 – 89% time Positive and 11% time Negative

𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀- 96% time Positive and 4% time Negative

𝟭𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀- 100% time Positive and 0% time Negative

🔰 SENSEX delivered 𝟭𝟱.𝟱% 𝗖𝗔𝗚𝗥 returns over the last 43 years.

🔰 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 dispersion (CAGR)

𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟬-𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬 – 21.6%
𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬 – 14.3%
𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬 -17.8%
𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 – 8.8%.*
2020~ 2022 – 24.8%

🔰 BSE Sensex returns 15.5%, if we add an average dividend yield of 1.4% for the last 43 years.

🔰 Longest 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 was from 1994 to 2003. 9 years in total.

🔰 Since 2002, in the last 18 years 𝗡𝗢 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝟳 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀.

This means since 2002 if you ever invested and kept money for a minimum period of 7 years then you would have 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆.