Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC.NS) — Available-Data Snapshot

We don't publish a discounted-cash-flow fair value for Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC.NS) because the free data sources we rely on don't expose the multi-year financials a DCF needs — common for small or thinly-covered listings. Rather than invent numbers, this page shows an honest snapshot of what the public data does support: the current price and size, any relative valuation multiples that exist, a book-value view, and a price-based read. Treat it as a descriptive starting point, not a valuation and not investment advice.

On the numbers we do have, IRFC.NS trades at a recent price of ₹83.08, a market capitalisation of about ₹1,085,731,504,128, sitting 3% of the way up its 52-week range (₹81.30–₹137.17), on the NSE.

The standard alternative to a DCF is relative valuation — comparing IRFC.NS's trading multiples against a sector benchmark. Here that gives P/E of 15.2× (in line with the peer median of 15.5×); Fwd P/E of 11.4× (cheaper than the peer median of 14.2×); P/B of 1.9× (cheaper than the peer median of 2.8×); P/S of 14.7× (richer than the peer median of 5.1×); Dividend yield of 3.5% (cheaper than the peer median of 1.7%). A cheaper multiple than peers can flag a discount or a market that expects weaker growth; it is a comparison, not a recommendation.

The asset, or book-value, lens is the classic tool for asset-heavy businesses and financials. IRFC.NS shows a price-to-book (P/B) of 1.91 and book value of ₹43.46 per share. Price-to-book compares the market price to the accounting net-asset value per share; below 1.0 can mean a discount to net assets or that the market is pricing in trouble — descriptive either way, never a buy signal on its own.

Finally, a price-based read — explicitly not a valuation. IRFC.NS is in a down-trend (price below both its 50- and 200-day averages), trading -39.4% from its 52-week high. Over the past year the stock is -33.2%. Moving-average trend and 52-week position describe where the stock has traded; they say nothing about what it is worth.