Deployed Return Calculator
CAGR charges you for the days your money sat in cash. This shows what your capital earned while it was actually working — plus the honest all-in number once idle cash is put back to work. Free.
From buy & hold to blended sleeve return
These are measurements of figures you supply about your own book, not a forecast and not investment advice. Deployed return annualises a short window, so it magnifies both good and bad outcomes — a strong month held for three weeks annualises to a number no strategy sustains. Read it next to CAGR, never instead of it.
Deployed Return Calculator
A deployed return calculator computes the annualised return your capital actually earned while it was invested — accounting for the real number of days deployed rather than assuming capital was invested for the whole period.
Annualised return ≈ ((Ending Value / Starting Value)^(365 / actual days deployed) − 1) × 100 — similar to CAGR, but scoped to the actual holding period in days rather than whole years.
Input: ₹1,00,000 grew to ₹1,08,000 over 90 actual days deployed
Result: Annualised (deployed) return ≈ ((1.08)^(365/90) − 1) × 100 ≈ 38.5% — a much higher figure than the raw 8% because it's annualised over a short holding period
Why does a short-term trade show such a high annualised return?
Annualising compounds a short-period gain as if it repeated for a full year — it's a rate, not a promise that the same 8% will repeat every 90 days.
How is this different from XIRR?
This assumes one clean entry and exit; XIRR handles multiple cashflows on irregular dates — use XIRR when there were several separate investments or withdrawals.
Deployed Capital Return Calculator: how it works
This calculator measures return against the capital genuinely at work rather than the whole account, which is the honest denominator when much of the balance sits idle.
Formula
Deployed return = profit ÷ capital actually deployed × 100.