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Kotak Mahindra BankKOTAKBANK.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Financials›Major Banks

Private Indian bank and financial-services group spanning retail banking, insurance, asset management and broking.

≈ India's PNC Financial Services with an asset-management armMomentum leader 91
Mkt cap
$50.5B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
72%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$111M
20-day average traded
P/B
2.45×
price to book
ROE
11.8%
delivered
Implied ROE
29.5%
what the price asks
Next earnings
83 days
28 Jan 2027
Close · INR₹480.00
1D+2.8%
1W+4.0%
1M+9.1%
3M+21.8%
6M+26.5%
YTD+9.0%
1Y+12.3%
ATR %2.2%
Beta0.94
52w lowhighat the 52-week high

What Kotak Mahindra Bank does

Private Indian bank and financial-services group spanning retail banking, insurance, asset management and broking.

Earns mainly from the gap between loan and deposit rates, with fee income from its asset-management, insurance and broking subsidiaries. Founder Uday Kotak and family remain its biggest shareholders. It grew by converting from a finance company into a bank in 2003 and by buying ING Vysya in 2015, which added branches.

In one line: India's PNC Financial Services with an asset-management arm.

Products and services

  • Retail & corporate banking
  • Life insurance (Kotak Life)
  • Asset management (Kotak Mutual Fund)
  • Broking (Kotak Securities)

Customers

  • Retail depositors and borrowers
  • Corporates and SMEs
  • Affluent/wealth-management clients

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Banking & financial services
  • Retail & corporate banking, insurance…
  • Deposits & loans, life/general…

What could go right

  • Rising affluent-segment wealth-management demand
  • Credit growth in retail/SME lending

What could go wrong

  • Past episodes of regulatory scrutiny (RBI restrictions)
  • Competitive deposit-cost pressure

Moat: narrow (brand, scale, distribution). Well-regarded conservative underwriting and a diversified financial-services franchise across banking and asset management.

Headquarters: Mumbai, India · Founded: 1985 · Employees: 112,000

Named competitors

Kotak Mahindra Bank at a glance

Size Kotak Mahindra Bank (KOTAKBANK.NS) is an India Financials company (Major Banks) with a market value of $50.5B, the 12th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹480.00 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 26.5%, against +7.3% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 12.4% over the last twelve months (peer median -3.8%); the operating margin is 34.0% (peer median 40.4%).

Valuation It trades at 2.45× book value against a peer median of 1.58× (3rd most expensive of 21).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 29.5%; Kotak Mahindra Bank delivers 11.8%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Next results Next results expected around 28 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026KOTAKBANK.NS 126Peer median 108
Six months, rebased to 100: Kotak Mahindra Bank against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Kotak Mahindra Bank financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹1.15T₹1.11T₹1.07T₹896B₹695B
Revenue growth—+4%+19%+29%—
Net income₹215B₹193B₹221B₹182B₹149B
Free cash flown/a₹364B₹263B₹377B₹239B
Capital expendituren/a₹10.6B₹12.1B₹11.3B₹9.87B
Total debt₹1.23T₹1.04T₹1.05T₹851B₹599B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Kotak Mahindra Bank competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+10%+20%-5%0%+5%DNBGLEU11SWED-AAXISBANKNASEB-ADANSKESTANNDA-FINWG2388PKO601998LLOY000001SHB-AHBANBPEANZKOTAKBANK.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Kotak Mahindra Bank is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

10%12%14%16%10×20×DNBGLEU11SWED-AAXISBANKNASEB-ADANSKESTANNDA-FINWG2388PKO601998LLOY000001SHB-AHBANBPEANZKOTAKBANK.NSReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Kotak Mahindra Bank is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

10%20%30%10%20%30%DNBGLEU11SWED-AAXISBANKNASEB-ADANSKESTANNDA-FINWG2388PKO000001BPEANZKOTAKBANK.NSROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Kotak Mahindra Bank is the large dot.

Kotak Mahindra Bank competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (KOTAKBANK.NS vs HDFCBANK.NS vs ICICIBANK.NS vs AXISBANK.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Kotak Mahindra Bank KOTAKBANK.NS$50.5B+27%+12%12%2.45×29.5%
HDFC Bank HDFCBANK.NS$129B-1%+5%14%2.00×24.8%
ICICI Bank ICICIBANK.NS$119B+23%+8%16%2.89×36.7%
Axis Bank AXISBANK.NS$43.6B+2%+7%14%1.78×25.1%
IndusInd Bank INDUSINDBK.NS$7.48B-4%-2%5%1.04×17.8%

How Kotak Mahindra Bank compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Kotak Mahindra Bank against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureKOTAKBANK.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+9.1%+0.5%highest of 21
6-month return+26.5%+7.3%highest of 21
Return on equity11.8%13.7%8th lowest of 21
Price / book2.45×1.58×3rd most expensive of 21
Trailing P/E22.2×12.3×most expensive of 21
ROE the price implies29.5%12.2%2nd most demanding of 21
ROE delivered11.8%13.9%7th lowest of 20

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Kotak Mahindra Bank KOTAKBANK.NSIndia$50.5B+27%+12%12%2.45×29.5%11.8%
DNB Bank DNB.OLNorway$50.0B+16%-8%15%1.76×11.2%15.1%
Societe Generale GLE.PAFrance$52.0B-5%+9%9%0.78×10.0%9.5%
United Overseas Bank U11.SISingapore$47.6B0%-10%10%1.23×9.2%9.8%
Swedbank SWED-A.STSweden$46.0B+25%-5%14%2.09×13.2%14.3%
Axis Bank AXISBANK.NSIndia$43.6B+2%+7%14%1.78×25.1%13.9%
National Bank of Canada NA.TOCanada$59.3B+4%+8%14%2.62×20.1%14.3%
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken SEB-A.STSweden$42.9B+20%-8%14%1.80×9.5%13.5%
Danske Bank A/S DANSKE.CODenmark$42.4B+11%+8%14%1.68×6.1%14.1%
Standard Chartered STAN.LUnited Kingdom$60.9B+14%-10%13%1.37×16.9%12.8%
Nordea Bank Abp NDA-FI.HEFinland$62.3B+6%+3%15%1.77×14.6%14.9%
NatWest NWG.LUnited Kingdom$62.3B+4%+3%16%1.21×15.8%15.9%
Boc Hong Kong 2388.HKHong Kong$67.4B+13%-8%12%1.47×8.1%11.8%
PKO Bank Polski PKO.WAPoland$36.5B+18%-2%20%2.56×31.9%20.1%
China CITIC Bank 601998.SSChina$71.5B+9%-6%9%0.67×2.5%n/a
Lloyds Banking LLOY.LUnited Kingdom$73.7B+2%-2%14%1.37×17.2%14.3%
Ping An Bank 000001.SZChina$34.4B+3%-9%9%0.48×3.6%9.0%
Svenska Handelsbanken SHB-A.STSweden$32.6B+23%-14%12%1.68×9.0%12.2%
Huntington Bancshares HBANUnited States$31.2B-3%+24%9%1.06×10.2%9.1%
BPER Banca BPE.MIItaly$30.4B+2%+15%15%1.49×18.6%14.9%
ANZ ANZ.AXAustralia$84.2B+17%-5%8%1.71×14.4%8.3%

Questions

Who are Kotak Mahindra Bank's main competitors?
Named competitors: HDFC Bank (HDFCBANK.NS), ICICI Bank (ICICIBANK.NS), Axis Bank (AXISBANK.NS), IndusInd Bank (INDUSINDBK.NS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes DNB Bank (DNB.OL), Societe Generale (GLE.PA), United Overseas Bank (U11.SI), Swedbank (SWED-A.ST), Axis Bank (AXISBANK.NS), National Bank of Canada (NA.TO).
Is Kotak Mahindra Bank expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 2.45× against a peer median of 1.58×, 3rd most expensive of 21 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 29.5%; Kotak Mahindra Bank delivers 11.8%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has Kotak Mahindra Bank stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +26.5% against +7.3% for the median peer; over one year +12.3%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.