What would be the value of Rs. 1 Lakh invested in top IT stocks 5 years ago

Everybody invests their savings in some or another way. Some invest in high-risk investment products like high risky equity stocks, some in lower-risk products, or in negligible risk-bearing products like government bonds or fixed deposits. 

If you invest in the equity shares of a particular sector, then you might be looking for the historic returns of the top stocks in the respective sector in terms of capital appreciation as well as realized benefits like dividends or other like due to bonus issue or rights issue. 

So, the below infographic depicts the picture of the top 4 IT stocks according to their market capitalization as of 18th September 2020 with the as on date value of Rs. 1 lakh invested in each of these 5 years ago on 18th September 2015.

To understand the above infographic, for example, if you would have invested Rs. 1 Lakh in equity shares of Infosys on 18th September 2015, the maximum value of your investment would have been Rs. 2.93 Lakhs till September 2020 considering the high price in Sep. 2020. This worth of the investment includes all the benefits of equity shares like capital appreciation in the price of shares, dividends distributed by the company during this period as well as a bonus or right issue benefits, if applicable. 

In the same way, we have calculated the worth for the other 3 IT stocks, which you can easily compare with each other based on the above infographic. This is just to understand the performance of the top 4 IT stocks with each other. This does not indicate that this is the parameter for any kind of investment decision but this can be one of the parameters which you can consider along with a lot of other factors and information.