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HDFC Bank Limited (HDFCBANK)

Large Cap

Financial Services stocks · Large cap · NSE

HDFC Bank Limited is a prominent Indian private sector bank, offering a wide range of banking and financial services to its customers across various segments. It operates through a vast network of branches and digital channels.

₹701.2
-10.80 · -1.52%
Market cap ₹10,95,493 Cr
ThemesBanking
Data qualityVerify one data layerQuote updated 21 Oct, 01:16 pm ISTPost-result recalculation pending
Details
Quote21 Oct, 01:16 pm IST
Base fundamentals14 Oct 2026 · screener
Latest result17 Oct, 01:56 pm IST
Score21 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags03 May 2026
Coverage12/14 · 86%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Financial Services P/E 17.0 (n=243)
Technical timing lens

Trend score and candlestick chart

47Neutral

MACD + · near 52W low

Stock trend: 47
Sector RS: 46
Sector 3M: -6.0% vs Nifty 500 -6.0%

Latest mapped FPI equity flow was not positive. View sector evidence

Technical chart

HDFCBANKD candles · FIT view-10.4%TODAY · PROVISIONAL
Latest price ₹701.20 on 2026-10-21

Today's candle is provisional from the latest intraday quote; completed-candle scans remain unchanged.

Bar
-1.2%
RSI
44
MACD hist
0.28
52W pos
6%
Visible chart range
Candle interval
2026-10-21O ₹709.55H ₹715.40L ₹700.10C ₹701.20Vol 1.8Cr shIntraday candle
₹673.85₹718.15₹762.45₹806.75₹851.0552L₹701.202026-062026-09VolRSIMACD2026-042026-062026-082026-092026-11
Up bar
Down bar
EMA 20
EMA 50
Volume + 20D avg
Result date
RSI(14)
MACD / signal
Market context

Relative performance and chart statistics

Adjusted completed-session prices, rebased to 100

HDFCBANKNifty Financial ServicesNifty 500
-13%-8%-2%+3%20 Jul1 Sept19 Oct19 Oct 2026HDFCBANK -8.4%Nifty Financial Servi… -6.0%Nifty 500 -5.6%
HDFCBANK
-8.4%
Nifty 500
-5.6%
Nifty Financial Services
-6.0%
Vs Nifty 500
-2.9 pp
Chart stats
19 Oct 2026
From 52W high
-30.2%
₹1,020.5
52W range position
9%
₹681.9 - ₹1,020.5
ATR (14)
2.1%
₹15.1
Volume vs 20D
1.08x
Latest completed session
Avg traded value
₹2,203 Cr
20-session average
20D price channel
₹690.5 - ₹749.3
23.8% annualized volatility
Research snapshot

What the evidence says now

Mixed fundamentals, management evidence is still limited to a financial-only Trust Lite signal, price trend is neutral, and recent execution is consistent.

Suggested next step
Research, do not rush
The evidence is not strongly aligned. Compare peers and wait for a cleaner setup.
U-Score
Legacy · FAIR VALUE
49

Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.

Latest result
Average
50

Revenue +48.7% · PAT +1.6% YoY

Technical
Neutral
47

Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.

Valuation
Legacy model
+46.4%

Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.

Trust
Limited evidence
73

Financial-only signal; management claim evidence is not sufficient yet.

Financials

Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence

Latest result

Quarter ended 30 Sept 2026

Average · 50/100

Rev +49% YoY · PAT +2% YoY · +43% QoQ

Filed 17 Oct 2026
Open results browser →
MetricThis quarterYoYQoQ
Revenue₹1,29,358.7 Cr+48.7%+42.8%
EBITDANDFNDFNDF
Operating marginNDFNDFNDF
PAT₹20,700 Cr+1.6%+1.6%
PAT margin16.0%-741 bps-650 bps

NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.

Fundamentals

Valuation

P/E
13.90
P/B
1.82
EV/EBITDA
—
Market Cap
1095493.00Cr

Profitability

ROE
13.60%
ROCE
7.02%
ROA
1.68%
Dividend Y
1.81%

Growth (CAGR)

Revenue 5Y
22.00%
EPS 5Y
19.00%
Revenue 3Y
27.00%
EPS 3Y
18.00%

Balance Sheet

Debt/Equity
0.19
Interest Coverage
—
Altman Z
1.48
Book Value
390.00

Cash Flow

FCF Yield
11.04%
FCF Positive Y
7/5
OCF
113506.00 Cr
EPS TTM
51.35

Shareholding

Promoter Hold
—
Promoter Pledge
0.00%
Momentum 52W
9%

Financial History

Updated 20/10/2026

Revenue

₹ Cr
Latest: 3.0-84.2% vs prev
027.0Mar 2017: 5.0Mar 2018: 22.0Mar 2019: 3.0Mar 2020: 27.0Mar 2021: 4.0Mar 2022: 10.0Mar 2023: 19.0Mar 2024: 5.0Mar 2025: 19.0Mar 2026: 3.0FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Net Profit

₹ Cr
Latest: 79.2k+7.9% vs prev
079kMar 2017: 15.3kMar 2018: 18.6kMar 2019: 22.4kMar 2020: 27.3kMar 2021: 31.9kMar 2022: 38.2kMar 2023: 46.1kMar 2024: 65.4kMar 2025: 73.4kMar 2026: 79.2kFY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Return on Equity

%
Latest: 13.5-3.9% vs prev
016.9Mar 2017: 16.7%Mar 2018: 16.9%Mar 2019: 14.6%Mar 2020: 15.5%Mar 2021: 15.2%Mar 2022: 15.4%Mar 2023: 15.9%Mar 2024: 14.3%Mar 2025: 14.1%Mar 2026: 13.5%FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

Technicals

Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence

Daily technical trend read

Bearish setup

Trend is weak — long-term trend down. RSI 44.

  • Price < SMA20 < SMA50 < SMA200 — full bearish stack.
  • SMA20 roughly flat — short-term momentum stalled.
  • RSI(14) at 44 — falling, no extreme reading.
  • MACD above signal but histogram contracting — bullish momentum cooling.
  • Within 5% of 52-week low — testing support.

Mechanical read from the price + indicator series above. Not a recommendation — technical setups can reverse without warning, especially around earnings and macro events.

Nifty 500 leadership

Relative Strength & Trend Stage

24
RS percentile
Stage 4 Downtrend
1M return
-2.6%
3M return
-8.4%
6M return
-11.0%
1Y return
-29.1%
RS 1D
+4
RS 20D
+9
Sector rank
#9
Industry rank
#9
Stage evidence
  • Price is 5.8% below the 30-week proxy.
  • The 50-DMA is below the 30-week proxy and its slope is falling -2.5%.
  • Both 3-month and 6-month returns are negative.
50-DMA
price below
200-DMA
price below
Sector
neutral
Industry
neutral
Relative-strength line vs Nifty 500 (base 100)
261 observations
19 Oct 2026Value 77.29-1.30%
70788795104Sept 25Feb 26Jun 26Oct 2677
RS vs Nifty 50077

Valuation & peers

U-Score 49 · legacy U-Score band FAIR VALUE · valuation evidence and comparable companies

49U-SCORE
Distress Watch

Fundamental score breakdown

U band · FAIR VALUE
Valuation13/30
Growth16/25
Quality6/20
Balance Sheet2/15
Cash Flow8/10
Piotroski
5/9 (+3)
Penalties
1
Raw sum
49

Why this score?

Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.

49/100 · legacy band FAIR VALUE

Positive drivers

  • FCF yield is supportive at 11.0%.
  • Fair-value margin of safety is positive at 46.4%.
  • Cash flow contributes 8/10 to the score.

Main drags

  • Altman Z is 1.5, in distress territory.
  • Balance sheet is weaker at 2/15; verify the latest quarterly trend.
  • Quality is weaker at 6/20; verify the latest quarterly trend.
Sector valuation model

Bank valuation: P/B adjusted for ROE and asset quality

Banks are balance-sheet businesses, so book value quality matters more than simple earnings multiples.

Bank P/B
Primary lens
Price/book and ROE/ROA, not trailing PE alone.
Secondary checks
Capital adequacy, credit cost, NPA trend, deposit franchise.
Main risk check
Low P/B can be a trap if asset quality or credit cost is worsening.
PE
13.9
PB
1.8
EV/EBITDA
—
ROE
13.6%
ROCE
7.0%
FCF Yield
11.0%
Debt/Equity
0.2
MoS
+46.4%
Score movement

Stored run vs live recompute

This shows the stored score trend when snapshots exist, and also compares the latest stored nightly score with a live recompute from current fundamentals and price.

Stored run: 21 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
Final score
49
Previous: 49
Legacy U-Score band
FAIR VALUE
Previous: FAIR VALUE
Margin of safety
+46.4%
Previous: +45.6%

Score history

12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.

21 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49

Factor attribution

No pillar movement versus the latest stored run. Historical score trend will appear after snapshot storage is enabled.

Modelled fair value

Graham Number
₹671.26
-4.5% MoS
Growth-justified P/E
25.5
Growth-justified Value
₹1,309.43
+46.4% MoS
PEG
0.75

Comparable companies

Peers

Business-comparable peers in Financial Services — ranked by industry, sub-sector, theme-tag overlap, market cap, and U-Score similarity. Green cells mark the best available peer metric in this table.

Compare all ↗
Ticker
Name
Why peer
Score
PE
ROE
MoS
Verdict
ICICIBANK
Large
ICICI Bank Limited
Banking
match 167
46
17.1
15.9%
+31%
FAIR VALUE
AXISBANK
Large
Axis Bank Limited
Banking
match 161
44
12.8
13.1%
+50%
WATCHLIST
KOTAKBANK
Large
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
Banking
match 160
26
21.8
11.4%
+15%
OVERVALUED
J&KBANK
Large
The Jammu & Kashmir Bank Limited
Banking
match 157
64
6.6
15.4%
+74%
UNDERVALUED
INDUSINDBK
Large
IndusInd Bank Limited
Banking
match 155
10
51.2
1.4%
-2121%
OVERVALUED

Business, management & trust

Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery

Business and thesis

Where growth can come from, and what can break the case

Thesis intactReviewed 2026-07-19T00:41:10.000Z
Management commentary snapshot

No financial results or operational updates provided in this intimation document. The document only announces the Q1 FY27 earnings call and presentation.

No financial or operational data is available in this document to assess the investment thesis. The document solely serves as an intimation for an upcoming earnings call and presentation.

Management accountability

What management said, and what results must prove

Issuer guidance and extracted claims are tracked against later reported outcomes. Treat these as management statements, not IndiaPulse forecasts.

Analyst reading lens
Compare BOTH

The document is an intimation for an earnings call and presentation for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. No financial results or operational data are provided to enable a comparison.

Thesis monitor

Numbers and claims to verify in the next filings

CheckpointCurrent evidenceWhat to verify next

Verification checkpoints are IndiaPulse research interpretation, not investment advice.

Trust Score
73Limited evidence · low confidenceTrust Lite

Trust asks: does management behaviour match later outcomes? Higher is better, but confidence and evidence depth matter as much as the number.

Limited evidence: Claim history is still being built. It ranks around the 72nd percentile of the scored universe and 84th percentile within Financial Services. Main check: balance sheet trust is weak at 55/100.

This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.

Computed 21 Oct 2026
management-trust-v1
72 docs text-extracted · 32 concalls text-extracted
Score band
Limited evidence

Financial behaviour is scored, but management claims do not yet have enough outcome checks.

Relative rank
72nd percentile

overall median 67 · Financial Services: 84th pctile, median 62 · Large: 51st pctile, median 73

Evidence depth
Financial-only

72 documents have extracted text, but claim history is not strong enough yet.

Claim delivery
Outcome history still building

0 claims extracted · No contradicted claim yet

How to read this Trust Score

Limited evidence · low confidence
What it measures
Reliability of management and financial delivery, using financial behaviour only.
Confidence
Treat this as an early read until more concalls and outcomes are matched.
Investor use
Acceptable, but check the weakest sub-score before increasing exposure.

Read Trust alongside U-Score, result consistency, and technical trend. A cheap stock with weak Trust needs a larger margin of safety; a high Trust score does not make an expensive stock attractive by itself.

Forensic breakdown

Read low sub-scores as due-diligence warnings, not automatic sell signals.

Promoter
78
strong · holding, pledge, alignment
Cash flow
89
strong · profit to cash conversion
Balance sheet
55
watch · leverage and solvency
Discipline
56
watch · capital discipline
Results
87
strong · quarterly consistency

Trust positives

  • ▸Promoter pledge is zero.
  • ▸FCF yield is 11%.
  • ▸7 years of positive FCF.
  • ▸4/4 latest quarters had positive YoY revenue growth.

Trust risks

  • ▸Altman Z is 1.48.
  • ▸ROCE is low at 7%.

Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.

Important announcements & filings

Latest exchange and company disclosures found within the past two years.

12 shown
Investor presentation

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 17 Oct - Presentation to be made at the Earnings Call

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 8 Oct - Newspaper publication confirming the dispatch of Postal Ballot Notice

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Allotment of ESOP / ESPS 25 Sep - Allotment of 18,97,180 equity shares pursuant to exercise of ESOP/RSU

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Allotment of ESOP / ESPS 16 Sep - Allotment of equity shares pursuant to exercise of ESOP/RSU

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Credit rating

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Credit Rating 20 Aug - S&P and Moody’s assigned BBB/Baa3 ratings to HDFC Bank’s USD1.75 billion senior notes due 2029 and 2031.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Credit rating

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Credit Rating 19 Aug - CARE and India Ratings reaffirmed/assigned A1+ ratings for HDFC Bank’s ₹2,000 crore and ₹2,000 crore CDs on Aug 18-19, 2026.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Allotment of ESOP / ESPS 14 Aug - Allotment of 1729212 equity shares pursuant to exercise of ESOP/RSU

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 13 Aug - Intimation of Schedule of Analyst / Institutional Investor Meetings under Regulation 30 of the SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 12 Jul

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Annual report

Reg. 34 (1) Annual Report. 11 Jul

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 26 Jun - Newspaper advertisement- Notice of the 32nd Annual General Meeting of HDFC Bank Limited and other related information

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Allotment of ESOP / ESPS 25 Jun - Allotment of 5,18,036 equity shares pursuant to exercise of ESOP/RSU

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
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All information is for study purposes only. For investment decisions, consult your financial advisor. See Playbook for methodology.