New, early: highest expected return in our model
HDFC Bank together with its subsidiaries is engaged in providing a range of banking and financial services, including retail banking, wholesale banking, treasury operations, insurance, asset management, stock broking and other financial services business. The Bank has overseas branch operations in Bahrain, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore and an Offshore Banking Unit at International Financial Service Centre (IFSC), GIFT City, India. The bank has three key business segments: Wholesale Banking, Treasury and Retail Banking.
HDFC Bank Limited provides banking and financial products and services to individuals and businesses in India, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai. The company operates through Treasury, Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking, Other Banking Business, Insurance Business, and Other segments. It offers savings, salary, current, rural, public provident fund, pension, and demat accounts; fixed and recurring deposits; and safe deposit lockers, as well as offshore accounts and deposits, and overdrafts against fixed deposits. The company also provides personal, home, car and pre owned car, marriage, two-wheeler, business, doctor, educational, gold, consumer, and rural loans; loans against properties, securities, mutual funds, and car; loans for professionals; government sponsored programs; and loans on credit card, as well as working capital, term loans, supply chain management, project finance, export finance, commercial vehicle / equipment finance, tractor finance, infrastructure, and agriculture finance. In addition, it offers credit, debit, prepaid, forex, and kisan gold cards; payment and collection, export, import, remittance, bank guarantee, letter of credit, trade, hedging, and merchant and cash management services; and insurance and investment products. Further, the company provides short term finance, bill discounting, structured finance, export credit, loan repayment, custodial, and documents collection services; online, mobile, and phone banking services; unified payment interface, immediate payment, national electronic funds transfer, and real time gross settlement services; channel financing, vendor financing, money market, derivatives, employee trusts, cash surplus corporates, tax payment, and bankers to rights/public issue services; and financial solutions for supply chain partners and agricultural customers. It operates branches and automated teller machines in various cities/towns. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.
Key people: Mr. Sashidhar Jagdishan (MD, CEO & Director) · Mr. Kaizad Maneck Bharucha (Deputy MD & Director) · Mr. Srinivasan Vaidyanathan (Chief Financial Officer) · Mr. Gourab Roy (Group Head of Operations, ATM & Administration) · Mr. Rakesh Kumar Singh (Group Head of Private Banking, International Banking, Financial Institutions & BaaS) · Mr. Ajit Subhas Shetty (Investor Relations Officer)
HDFC Bank major competitors are ICICI Bank, State Bank Of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Axis Bank, Federal Bank, AU Small Fin. Bank. Market Cap of HDFC Bank is ₹11,51,628 Crs. While the median market cap of its peers are ₹4,01,341 Crs.
HDFC Bank seems to be financially stable compared to its competitors.The probability of it going bankrupt or facing a financial crunch seem to be lower than its immediate competitors.
Yahoo profile 23 Sept 2026 · Tijori 23 Sept 2026
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India's largest private bank (₹30 lakh crore of loans, 9,700 branches, 100 million+ customers) formed by the 2023 merger with HDFC Ltd, which brought a ₹7 lakh crore mortgage book and a funding gap the bank has spent three years closing. ROA 1.7–1.8%, net NPA 0.4%, CET1 17.4%, PBT-ex-treasury growing 21%; subsidiaries (HDB Financial, HDFC Life, HDFC AMC, HDFC Ergo, HDFC Securities) are worth ~₹110 a share.
| ICICI Bank | We own both. ICICI's ROA (2.2%) and CASA (39%) are better today; HDFC Bank's are converging and the price gap (1.6x vs 2.5x core book) is wider than the quality gap. |
| Kotak Mahindra | Kotak at 2.0x core book earns a 12% ROE; HDFC Bank at 1.6x earns 14% rising to 16%. There is no version of the arithmetic in which Kotak is the better buy. |
| SBI | We own both. SBI is cheaper (1.25x) but a public-sector bank with a lower ROA ceiling (1.1%); HDFC Bank's 1.8% ROA justifies the premium. |
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Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.
Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.
Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.
Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.
Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.
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Banking — 21.1%: the largest exposure, chosen bank by bank
Banks are the cheapest way to own an economy growing 8–9% in nominal terms, and today they are cheap for a reason that has nothing to do with their economics. Every one of the four cycles that drive bank earnings is turning in their favour: deposits are growing 15.4% (the fastest in a decade) so the funding squeeze that capped growth in FY25–26 is easing; system credit is growing 18.3% and corporate borrowing is migrating from a shrinking bond market (issuance −18%) back onto bank balance sheets; margins troughed in the June 2026 quarter after 125 bp of repo cuts and are now rising as deposits reprice; and asset quality is the best in twenty years (large private-bank net NPAs 0.3–0.5%, SBI 0.38%). Yet the Bank Nifty trades below its own long-run average. The reason is mechanical: foreign investors have sold ₹1.8 lakh crore of Indian equity in FY26 and six of their ten largest holdings are banks. They can only sell what they own. Our own work — a capital-adjusted residual-income model of the four large private banks plus SBI, built from FY17 — says the four large private banks earn 14.5–17.5% on normalised capital against a 12.25–13% cost of equity and will compound book at 12–16% a year. Over ten-year horizons EPS growth and share-price growth converge; the arithmetic is on our side even if the timing of the narrative turn is not. The important sales point is that our alpha in financials has come from selection, not the index: SBI in 2017 when retail delinquencies were better than perceived, ICICI as a top pick from 2018, Axis through its credit-cost trough (up 40–50% for us). Roughly 40% of the bank index is HDFC Bank and Kotak and we deliberately did not hug it at 4–5x book.
Kotak Mahindra Bank is the obvious omission. Our model rates it REDUCE: a 12% ROE bank at 2.0x core book, priced for a 17% ROE it does not earn, with CASA sliding toward 40% and a CEO succession still ahead. The argument the house has used for years — a 16–17% ROE bank cannot compound above that without dilution, so 4–5x book is unsustainable — applies with more force to a 12% one. IndusInd is a governance rebuild we do not need to underwrite; Federal Bank and AU Small Finance are good franchises but neither has IDFC First's deposit engine or its operating-leverage runway at a comparable price. Among public-sector banks, Bank of Baroda and Canara are cheaper on paper but have weaker CASA, thinner capital and none of SBI's subsidiary optionality; SBI's premium (1.25x vs 0.9–1.0x) is the price of a franchise that survived the AQR and emerged with the best retail book in the system.
| Auto Insurance - Market Share | 4.77 % | as of May 23 |
| Bank Advances - Market Share | 13.85 % | as of Jun 26 |
| Bank Deposits - Market Share | 11.95 % | as of Jun 26 |
| Credit Card Transactions - Market Share | 28.93 % | as of Jul 26 |
| Debit Card Transactions - Market Share | 10.49 % | as of Jul 26 |
| Gram Panchayat Market Share | 10 % | as of Mar 21 |
| Gross Direct Premium Income - Market Share | 4.66 % | as of Jul 26 |
| Health Insurance - Market Share | 4.73 % | as of May 23 |