Debasis Mohapatra
Bengaluru, 25 Dec 2025
The year 2025 turned out to be a mixed year for Indian markets with Nifty PSU Index emerging as the best performing sectoral index this year.
Here is a snapshot of best & worst performing indices:
| Sectoral Indices | Return in 2025 (By the end of December 24, 2025) |
| NIFTY PSU Bank | 25% ↑ |
| NIFTY Automobile | 22.7% ↑ |
| NIFTY Metal | 21.5% ↑ |
| NIFTY Financial Services (FINNIFTY) | 15.8% ↑ |
| NIFTY Bank Index (BANK NIFTY) | 15.15% ↑ |
| Sectoral Indices | Return in 2025 (By the end of December 24, 2025) |
| NIFTY Media | 22.5% ↓ |
| NIFTY Realty | 16.1% ↓ |
| NIFTY IT | 10.1% ↓ |
| NIFTY FMCG | 3% ↓ |
| NIFTY Pharma | 3% ↓ |
(Source: DBT Research)
