Performance Breakdown helps you see which holdings or groups are contributing most to your portfolio performance for the selected period.
Note: Performance Breakdown was previously called Contributions Report in Navexa’s old platform.
Open Performance Breakdown
To open Performance Breakdown:
Go to Performance in the left-hand menu.
Select Performance Breakdown.
Once the page opens, you can use the options at the top of the page to change what you’re analysing.
Change The Report View
Use the options at the top of the page to search for holdings, change the date range, apply filters, choose which positions to include, change the grouping, or export the report.
Search Holdings
Use the Filter holdings field to quickly find a specific holding in the report.
This helps you narrow the page to the holding you want to review without changing your underlying data.
Date Range
Use the date range selector to choose the period you want to review.
For example, if you select All Time, Navexa includes all recorded performance for the current view. If you choose a shorter date range, the report only reflects performance within that period.
Filter
Use Filter to narrow the report to the data you want to review.
Filters only change what you see on the page. They do not change your data.
Position Scope
Use the positions selector to choose whether the report includes All Positions or Open Positions Only.
This helps you control whether closed positions are included in the current report view.
Grouping
Use the grouping selector to change how the report is organised.
A good starting point is Holding, because it shows performance by individual investment. You can also group the report by categories such as Exchange, Sector, Industry, Currency, Broker/Source, Holding Type, Portfolio, or your Custom Groups.
Export
Use Export to download the current report view as an XLSX file.
Read The Summary Cards
At the top of the page, Performance Breakdown shows summary cards that give you a quick overview of the current view.
These cards include:
Total Return — the overall return for the selected report view
Gainers — the number of holdings or groups contributing a positive result
Losers — the number of holdings or groups contributing a negative result
Best — the strongest contributor in the current view
Worst — the weakest contributor in the current view
These summary cards update when you change the date range, filters, position scope, or grouping.
Choose The Return Type
Below the summary cards, you can switch between different return types:
Total Return
Capital Gain
Income Return
Currency Gain
These options let you look at the report from different angles.
For example, you can use Total Return to see the full contribution of each holding, or switch to Income Return if you only want to compare dividend and distribution performance.
Read The Chart
The chart ranks your holdings or groups from highest to lowest based on the return type you’ve selected.
A positive contributor appears in green. A negative contributor appears in red.
That means negative values on this page are normal. A red bar simply shows that the holding or group reduced your performance over the selected period.
The values shown beside each bar are the dollar results for the selected return type.
This makes it easy to answer questions like:
Which holding contributed most to performance?
Which holding dragged performance down?
Is my return concentrated in a few positions or spread more broadly?
Which sector, exchange, or custom group is driving the result?
Read The Holdings Breakdown
Below the chart, the Holdings Breakdown table shows the detail behind the report.
This table helps you move from the high-level chart into the underlying components for each holding.
It includes:
Holding
Capital Gain
Income Return
Currency Gain
Total Return
This lets you see not just whether a holding was positive or negative, but also what drove that result.
For example, a holding may have:
A strong Capital Gain
A small Income Return
A negative Currency Gain
A positive or negative Total Return once everything is combined
Why A Holding Can Be Negative
A holding can appear as a negative contributor when its result reduced your performance for the selected period.
This can happen for several reasons, including:
A fall in market price
A negative currency movement on an international holding
A weaker total result compared with other holdings in the same period
In Performance Breakdown, negative contributors are just as important as positive ones because they help explain what affected your overall return.
Tips
Start with Total Return and Holding for the clearest first view.
Switch to Sector, Exchange, or a Custom Group if you want broader comparisons.
Check the Worst card and the red bars if you want to quickly identify what dragged performance down.
Use the breakdown table when you want to understand whether the result came from capital growth, income, currency movement, or a mix of all three.