ICRA Limited DCF Valuation
ICRA · Financial Services · Current price ₹4,491.2
ICRA Limited cash-flow valuation
Our residual income (excess return on book) values ICRA Limited at ₹1,852 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 ₹4,917. 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 ICRA Limited. Nothing here is a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
The inputs are thin or the models disagree sharply. This is our least reliable kind of estimate, so read the range rather than the single number.
Estimate range ₹1,852 – ₹7,983
Why this method for this business
The relative P/E and residual income models are most appropriate for ICRA, a ratings agency with a durable moat and stable earnings power. These models align with its asset-light, high-margin business model and the need to normalize for macroeconomic and sector-specific volatility.
The models behind the number
These methods disagree materially, so the estimate is their plain midpoint rather than a weighted blend. The disagreement is itself the finding.
Book value plus the present value of returns earned above the 10.6% cost of equity
- dcf: Not suitable for a ratings agency with high intangible assets and uncertain cash flows
- normalized book value: Not applicable for a high-margin, asset-light business
What was missing
- Lack of forward EPS data for precise residual income modeling
- Limited historical P/E data for sector normalization
What drives it
20 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 19.66×
- Peers used
- 395
- EPS (TTM)
- 202.3 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 31.56×
- ROE (normalized)
- 15.8%
- Book value / share
- 1,223 ₹
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
computed
reported
- Cost of equity
- 10.6%
building-block
- Term: quality
- +12.6%
- Term: growth
- +31.9%
- Term: capital_allocation
- +2.8%
- Term: financial_strength
- +10.0%
- Term: history
- +18.1%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
- Moat
- Narrow
- Excess-return horizon
- 10 yrs
quality 80/100 (high, stable returns) → premium
durable ~16% CAGR (ROCE 23% > hurdle) → premium
capital allocation: rising ROCE funded by strong FCF → premium
financial strength: effectively debt-free → premium
history: market paid +61% vs sector, dampened ×0.3 (one feature, not the anchor)
sector re-rating: no sector-norm history → not used
rates: risk-free 6.9% below ~7.1% normal → higher multiple
risk: no analyst-dispersion signal available → neutral (lowers confidence, not PE)
computed
computed
- Premium vs sector
- +100.7%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 87%
- Fair P/E
- 39.46×
fundamentals + macro (not capped at own history)
data completeness + term agreement
sector median × ∏(1+term) — Dynamic Fair Multiple
Who computed this
A language model (qwen3:8b) selects the valuation method and the judgement inputs for ICRA 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 15 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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