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State Bank of India (SBIN.NS): Valuation Snapshot

State Bank of India (SBIN.NS) is a bank, insurer or other financial, and a discounted-cash-flow model is the wrong lens for one, so TickerWorth does not publish a DCF fair value for it. What its filings and market data do show is below. Snapshot as of Oct 19, 2026.

Model by · generated from public market data · Updated Oct 19, 2026 · How these pages are made

How is a bank like SBIN.NS valued?

We don’t publish a DCF for this company

This is a bank / insurer / financial. A free-cash-flow DCF is structurally the wrong lens here (their debt and float are raw material, not financing), so we don't publish one. Our bank model (justified price-to-book) declined to value it too: our cost-of-equity inputs are US-market (10-year Treasury, US equity risk premium); we don't apply them to a INR listing. The price-to-book and price-to-earnings figures below are context for comparison, not a fair value.

Bank model (justified price-to-book)

Not published. Our cost-of-equity inputs are US-market (10-year Treasury, US equity risk premium); we don't apply them to a INR listing.

What is SBIN.NS's TickerWorth Score?

C56/100

Middle of the pack — real strengths and real weaknesses

Compared with Financial Services companies in India

Its strongest point: trades below our estimate of what it's worth. Its weakest: growth is slow or negative.

  • Value · 79 of 100

    Cheaper than 79% of Financial Services companies in India

  • Price vs worth · 100 of 100
  • Quality · 47 of 100

    More profitable than 47% of Financial Services companies in India

  • Financial health · 35 of 100

    Financially stronger than 35% of Financial Services companies in India

  • Growth · 16 of 100

    Growing faster than 16% of Financial Services companies in India

  • Momentum · 41 of 100

    Outperformed 41% of Financial Services companies in India over the past year

Confidence: Medium confidence · Scored

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Price
₹973.70
Market cap
₹8,987,998,158,848
52-week high
₹1,235
52-week low
₹891.05
Currency
INR
Exchange
NSE

Snapshot of Oct 19, 2026, quote time not published · Prices are delayed.

What we can say

State Bank of India (SBIN.NS) is a bank, insurer or other financial, and a free-cash-flow discounted-cash-flow (DCF) model is structurally the wrong lens for it: for these businesses debt and float are raw material, not financing, so there is no meaningful 'free cash flow' to discount. Instead of a misleading intrinsic-value number, this page reads SBIN.NS the way financials are actually valued — on relative multiples such as price-to-earnings and, above all, price-to-book — plus a plain description of where the stock trades. It is a descriptive snapshot, not a valuation, and not investment advice.

Read the full reasoning

On the numbers we do have, SBIN.NS trades at a recent price of ₹973.70, a market capitalisation of about ₹8,987,998,158,848, sitting 24% of the way up its 52-week range (₹891.05–₹1,235), on the NSE.

The standard alternative to a DCF is relative valuation — comparing SBIN.NS's trading multiples against its direct industry peers. Here that gives P/E of 10.4× (cheaper than the peer median of 16.7×); Fwd P/E of 9.2× (cheaper than the peer median of 13.1×); P/B of 1.4× (cheaper than the peer median of 2.1×); P/S of 2.3× (cheaper than the peer median of 4.8×); Dividend yield of 1.8% (cheaper than the peer median of 0.5%). 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. SBIN.NS shows a price-to-book (P/B) of 1.45 and book value of ₹673.78 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. SBIN.NS is in a down-trend (price below both its 50- and 200-day averages), trading -21.1% from its 52-week high. Over the past year the stock is +6.1%. Moving-average trend and 52-week position describe where the stock has traded; they say nothing about what it is worth.

To be exact about what this page is not: we are not saying the numbers for SBIN.NS are unavailable. They are, and they are above. We are saying a discounted-cash-flow model is the wrong instrument for this kind of business, and publishing one anyway — because the inputs happen to exist — would be a precise answer to the wrong question. Refusing is the more useful answer, and it is the same rule we apply to every name in this category.

SBIN.NS vs peers

Direct industry peers.

MultipleSBIN.NSPeer medianRead
P/E10.4×16.7×cheaper than
Fwd P/E9.2×13.1×cheaper than
P/B1.4×2.1×cheaper than
P/S2.3×4.8×cheaper than
Dividend yield1.8%0.5%cheaper than

What does State Bank of India do?

What does it do?

State Bank of India provides banking products and services in India and internationally. The company operates through the Treasury, Corporate/Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking, and Other Banking Business segments. It operates in the Banks - Regional industry (Financial Services sector), headquartered in India. The company employs roughly 245,131 people.

How does it make money?

The business turns 3.9T in annual revenue into profit. Out of every $100 of sales, about $36 is left as operating profit (operating margin of 35.7%), after a 0% gross margin on the products/services it sells. After all costs, taxes and interest, 22.4% of revenue becomes bottom-line net profit.

Is it financially healthy?

Financially it looks stretched: is currently profitable.

SBIN.NS insider trading

Insider filings are available for US-listed companies only.

How does SBIN.NS compare with its peers?

Not investment advice. TickerWorth Score is a model output.

A descriptive, available-data snapshot and relative comparison — NOT a DCF, NOT a price target, and NOT investment advice. TickerWorth is not a licensed investment adviser, and these figures are estimates from public market data that can be wrong, stale or incomplete.