New Delhi:
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday announced that the number of Unique Investors (Unique PAN) on the exchange has crossed 11 crore for the first time. With this the total number of client accounts has exceeded 21 crores. Due to the increasing trend of stock market in India, there has been a big jump in the number of investors on NSE in the last few years and it has increased by 3.6 times in five years.
The number of investors increased in the last decade
After NSE started operations in 1994, it took about 14 years to reach one crore unique investors, but after that, it took seven years for the next one crore new investors to come and 3.5 years for the next one crore investors to join, while the next crore It took more than a year for investors to join.
Sharp increase in the number of investors
NSE said in the note that the number of unique investors has increased significantly in the recent past. Additional 1 crore investors have joined in 6 to 7 months. At the same time, the last 1 crore investors have come in the last five months, which shows the increasing participation of investors in the market.
On an average 47,000 to 73,000 investors are registered every day.
According to the exchange, between 47,000 to 73,000 unique investors are being registered every day in the last five months. The reason for this is end-to-end access to financial services, increasing digitalization and strong performance of the stock market.
Good returns in Nifty 50 and Nifty 500 index
In 2024, the Nifty 50 index gave a return of 8.8 percent, while the Nifty 500 index had an increase of 15.2 percent. Investors in Indian markets have received positive returns for the last nine consecutive years. Nifty 50 and Nifty 500 have given annual returns of 14.2 percent and 17.8 percent respectively over the five-year period ending December 2024, further boosting investor confidence.
The market cap of NSE-listed companies has increased almost 6 times from Rs 73.5 lakh crore on May 1, 2014 to Rs 425 lakh crore now.