CAGR Calculator
The single number that tells you how well an investment actually performed. Useful for comparing returns across different tenures.
Explore funds with this kind of long-term track record.
The main NetCorpus India planner rolls this into a 50-year retirement plan alongside your loans, EPF, taxes, trips, and life goals.
Compound Annual Growth Rate answers one question: given a starting value, an ending value, and a time period, what constant annual growth rate would explain the difference?
CAGR = (Final Value ÷ Initial Value)^(1/years) − 1. It's a smoothed rate — the actual year-to-year returns almost certainly varied, sometimes a lot — so CAGR tells you the equivalent steady rate, not what any individual year looked like.
₹1L grown to ₹3L over 10 years works out to a CAGR of about 11.6% — useful for comparing that investment's performance against a fund's benchmark or another asset class on a like-for-like annualised basis.
Is CAGR the same as average annual return?▾
No — a simple average of yearly returns overstates real growth when returns are volatile, because it ignores compounding and sequence. CAGR reflects what actually happened to your money; a plain average doesn't.