Axis Bank Limited DCF Valuation
AXISBANK · Financial Services · Current price ₹1,290
Axis Bank Limited cash-flow valuation
Our residual income (excess return on book) values Axis Bank Limited at ₹738 per share. Book value plus the present value of returns earned above the 10.6% cost of equity. It carries 30% of the weight in our published estimate of ₹908. A discounted cash flow is only as good as the cash-flow path it assumes, so the assumptions behind it are listed in full below.
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How we got this fair value
Every number below is part of the same estimate for Axis Bank Limited. Nothing here is a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
Workable, with real gaps. Weigh it alongside your own view rather than on its own.
Estimate range ₹738 – ₹999
Why this method for this business
The justified P/B and residual income models are most appropriate for a private sector bank like Axis Bank, as they align with the capital-intensive nature of banking and the importance of sustainable ROE relative to the cost of equity.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
13% sustainable ROE vs 10.6% cost of equity justifies ~1.4× book
Book value plus the present value of returns earned above the 10.6% cost of equity
- relative_pb was excluded due to the lack of a clear peer benchmark and the volatility of P/B ratios in the banking sector
What was missing
- Lack of forward EBITDA estimates
- Limited data on capital structure changes
What drives it
11 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- ROE (normalized)
- 13.2%
- Dividend payout
- 1.2%
- Book value / share
- 712 ₹
computed
ratios/derived
reported
- Cost of equity
- 10.6%
building-block
- Near-term growth g
- 13%
- High-growth years
- 10 yrs
- Terminal ROE
- 11.1%
- Terminal growth g
- 5%
computed
building-block
faded toward COE + moat
computed
- Moat
- None
- Excess-return horizon
- 3 yrs
computed
computed
- Justified P/B
- 1.38×
two-stage Gordon
Who computed this
A language model (qwen3:8b) selects the valuation method and the judgement inputs for Axis Bank Limited: which models suit the business, the moat, the growth and margin assumptions. It does not produce the number. The fair value itself is computed in Python by a deterministic engine (version 2026.08.1) from those inputs, so the same inputs always give the same result and every figure above can be traced to a source.
Estimated 14 Sept 2026. Re-run as new financials and news arrive.
How we value stocks
We estimate what a business is worth from its own economics: cash flows, returns on capital, and a multiple justified by its quality, rather than from where the share price has been. A fair value estimate is a view, not a verdict, and it is only as good as the inputs listed above.
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