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Key ratios
Market Cap
₹12.00 L Cr
P/E
15.78x
EPS
₹49.39
ROE
12.97%
Debt / Equity
6.29
OPM
41.59%
Net Margin
21.81%
Price
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◆ What They Do
HDFC Bank is India's largest private-sector bank. It takes in deposits from savers and lends to individuals and businesses, earning the gap between the two plus fees. After merging with its parent HDFC Ltd, it is now also India's biggest home-loan lender.
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Retail Banking
Loans & deposits
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Wholesale
Corporate lending
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Mortgages
Post-merger arm
◆ Business Model
💰Gather Deposits
→🧠Lend Prudently
→🔁Cross-sell
→📈Spread + Fees
Low-cost deposits plus unusually disciplined lending give HDFC Bank steady, high-quality profits year after year.
◆ Why It Wins · Moat
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Cheap Deposits
A huge low-cost deposit base — the raw material a bank runs on.
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Asset Quality
Best-in-class discipline means fewer bad loans than peers.
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Reach & Brand
Trusted name with branches and a big customer base nationwide.
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Tech & Scale
Scale and technology keep costs low and service fast.
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Cross-sell Base
A vast customer base to sell loans, cards and insurance to cheaply.
◆ Growth Drivers
- 🌏 India is under-borrowed — a long runway for credit.
- 🏦 Deposit and branch expansion to fund the merged book.
- 🏠 Cross-selling mortgages to the huge customer base.
- 🛍️ A rising middle class needing loans and cards.
- 📱 Digital banking widening reach at low cost.
◆ Compounding Flywheel
Trust Compounds
More Deposits
Cheaper Funds
Prudent Lending
Low Defaults
Higher Profits
- Trust brings in more low-cost deposits.
- Cheap funds let it lend at healthy spreads.
- Careful lending keeps defaults very low.
- Low losses and scale deepen the trust.
- And higher profits fund the next round of growth.
▲ Key Risks
- ▲ Credit cycle: a downturn raises defaults across the loan book.
- ▲ Deposit competition can push up funding costs.
- ▲ RBI regulation on lending, rates and provisioning.
- ▲ Merger integration and a near-term margin drag.
- ▲ Its large size makes fast growth harder from here.