SBFC Finance Limited Fair Value
SBFC · Financial Services · Current price ₹85.15
Is SBFC Finance Limited undervalued?
We estimate the fair value of SBFC Finance Limited at ₹73 per share, against a market price of ₹98. That puts the share price about -25.7% above our estimate, at low confidence. This is our view of what the business is worth, not a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
How this fair value is calculated
This estimate comes from 2 methods: Fair multiple (P/E) (₹112), Residual income (excess return on book) (₹34). These methods disagree materially, so the estimate is their midpoint rather than a weighted blend, and the disagreement is part of the finding. The full working, including the assumptions and what data was missing, is set out below.
The range around this estimate
Our estimate for SBFC Finance Limited spans ₹34 to ₹112. That range is wide, which is the honest signal here: read the range rather than the single number. A margin of safety means buying meaningfully below the estimate: the wider the range, the more room the assumptions leave for error.
How we got this fair value
Every number below is part of the same estimate for SBFC Finance 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 ₹34 – ₹112
Why this method for this business
Relative P/E and residual income models are most appropriate for SBFC, a NBFC with a focus on secured lending. These models capture the earnings power and book value dynamics of a financial institution with a narrow moat.
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 NBFCs where debt is a core part of the business and cash flows are volatile
- normalized book value is not a good proxy for a high-growth, asset-light NBFC
What was missing
- Lack of detailed credit risk analysis
- Limited forward EBITDA estimates
- Insufficient data on capital allocation efficiency
What drives it
20 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 22×
- Peers used
- 6
- EPS (TTM)
- 4.37 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 27.75×
- ROE (normalized)
- 10.5%
- Book value / share
- 33.6 ₹
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
computed
reported
- Cost of equity
- 10.6%
building-block
- Term: quality
- -4.5%
- Term: growth
- +25.6%
- Term: capital_allocation
- +0.0%
- Term: financial_strength
- -11.3%
- Term: history
- +7.8%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
- Moat
- None
- Excess-return horizon
- 3 yrs
quality 46/100 (weak/erratic returns) → discount
durable ~34% CAGR (ROCE 10% < 12% hurdle (growth not value-accretive)) → premium
capital allocation: insufficient data → neutral
financial strength: high leverage (D/E 1.9) → discount
history: market paid +26% 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
- +16.0%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 73%
- Fair P/E
- 25.52×
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 SBFC Finance 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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