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Nifty Financial Services P/E ratio today

Price to earnings (P/E), price to book (P/B) and dividend yield for the Nifty Financial Services, which is currently undervalued — the 3rd percentile of 3,610 daily closes since 2012. Close of 27 Oct 2026.

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How the Nifty Financial Services’s valuation reads today

  • Against the market. The Nifty Financial Services trades at 0.76× the Nifty 50’s P/E, against a median of 0.89× across 3,610 days they were both priced — a deeper discount than usual. A sector can look dear on its own numbers while being cheap against the market, and that gap is usually the more useful of the two.
  • The range it has actually traded in. Its P/E has been as low as 11.67 (Aug 2013) and as high as 49.99 (Jul 2019). Both ends are real closes, not a model — and the high end of an index P/E is usually an earnings collapse rather than a price melt-up, which is why the bands below are percentiles and not a mean.
  • Versus a year ago. 14.46 today, down from 18.11 a year ago. The ratio moves on price and on earnings, so a falling P/E can mean the index got cheaper or that its constituents earned more — the Nifty Financial Services level itself is what separates the two.
Price to earnings
14.46Undervalued

3rd percentile of 3,610 days · median 18.90

Price to book
2.24Undervalued

1st percentile of 3,610 days · median 3.17

Dividend yield
1.00%Fairly valued

65th percentile of 3,610 days · median 0.87

Where the Nifty Financial Services P/E ratio sits today

Valuation zones for the Nifty Financial Services price to earnings
ZoneP/E rangeWhat it has meant
Undervaluedyou are herebelow 15.87Historically cheap — the zone that has rewarded adding, not waiting.
Fairly valued15.87 – 18.90Nothing to act on. Keep SIPs running at their normal size.
Slightly expensive18.90 – 34.85Above the historical middle. Stagger a lump sum rather than timing it.
Expensiveabove 34.85Historically dear — rebalancing to your target allocation is the honest response.

Bands are the 10th and 90th percentiles of 3,610 daily closes, with the median as the middle line — so the cheapest and dearest tenth of this index’s own history bound the outer zones, and one freak print cannot move them. They describe where this index has traded, not where it should — a market can stay expensive for years, and this is not a signal to act on.

When the Nifty Financial Services P/E was here, what came next

For every month-end since 29 Feb 2012: the index’s annualised return over the following 1, 3 and 5 years, grouped by the valuation zone it started in. Median, with the worst and best start underneath.

Forward returns of the Nifty Financial Services by starting P/E zone
Started inNext 1YNext 3YNext 5Y
Undervaluedyou are here
+43.5%
-8.1% to +82.1%
13% lost money
+21.8%
+7.2% to +27.3%
0% lost money
+19.6%
+16.6% to +24.7%
0% lost money
Fairly valued
+13.3%
-14.2% to +39.2%
18% lost money
+15.7%
+7.6% to +24.0%
0% lost money
+16.8%
+14.2% to +19.2%
0% lost money
Slightly expensive
+13.2%
-26.7% to +73.1%
18% lost money
+13.0%
+0.1% to +27.0%
0% lost money
+12.6%
+4.3% to +22.7%
0% lost money
Expensive
+4.5%
-29.3% to +27.0%
41% lost money
+12.2%
+4.7% to +20.9%
0% lost money
+11.9%
+10.0% to +13.7%
0% lost money

Price return only (index levels carry no dividends, so each figure understates an investor’s return by about the dividend yield). Start months overlap: a 5-year window spans 60 of them, so the counts are not independent observations. A zone needs 12 starts before it is summarised. The past spread of outcomes is wide in every zone — this is a record, not a forecast.

All three, since 2012

Each cell is the median of that month’s daily closes — one day’s print can be an earnings-revision artefact, and on a grid this size that day would colour the whole month. Hover a cell for the trading-day count behind it, or the line above it for any day’s close. All three are always shown; the buttons at the top only change which metric the valuation zones describe.

Nifty Financial Services P/E ratio, month by month

90th pct 34.85median 18.9010th pct 15.87
Price to earnings by month, 2012 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2012
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17.94
17.66
17.83
15.76
15.71
16.54
16.02
16.49
17.19
16.68
17.80
2013
17.78
16.73
16.04
15.93
17.15
15.94
15.26
12.79
13.66
14.12
14.27
14.73
2014
14.41
13.29
14.96
15.88
17.46
18.22
18.30
18.19
18.69
18.45
19.85
20.43
2015
21.29
21.75
21.72
21.18
20.39
19.98
21.27
20.47
18.76
19.96
18.63
18.48
2016
17.30
15.70
16.80
17.64
17.77
19.98
21.39
21.53
22.61
22.34
21.64
21.00
2017
21.51
23.49
24.10
24.89
26.20
27.04
27.29
28.28
28.63
28.66
29.89
30.18
2018
31.36
27.96
28.56
30.44
31.41
33.34
36.83
38.60
37.00
34.86
36.64
37.86
2019
38.22
40.22
42.88
45.00
45.47
48.38
48.41
44.76
42.41
34.09
35.80
35.18
2020
34.76
29.60
21.85
19.55
19.64
21.74
24.03
23.54
23.67
25.49
28.38
29.52
2021
31.30
36.30
34.74
25.21
23.55
24.16
23.95
24.16
25.29
26.02
24.75
23.16
2022
23.89
21.59
20.43
21.06
18.43
17.66
18.52
19.25
19.69
19.08
19.16
19.30
2023
18.65
17.34
16.76
17.53
18.45
18.10
19.85
18.71
18.35
18.24
16.97
18.37
2024
18.40
17.04
17.34
17.71
16.16
16.88
17.63
16.48
17.09
16.95
16.64
16.84
2025
15.76
15.51
15.66
17.08
17.43
17.55
17.78
17.33
17.13
17.86
17.96
17.98
2026
17.81
18.07
16.39
16.96
16.45
16.91
16.96
16.13
15.65
15.11
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cheapestdearest· shaded by rank among all 177 months, not by absolute value — the series is skewed enough that a linear ramp would flatten a decade into one colour

Nifty Financial Services P/B ratio, month by month

90th pct 3.98median 3.1710th pct 2.65
Price to book by month, 2012 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2012
·
2.82
2.79
2.83
2.63
2.75
2.92
2.78
2.68
2.80
2.78
2.99
2013
3.01
2.94
2.83
2.80
3.10
2.90
2.66
2.24
2.29
2.25
2.29
2.35
2014
2.31
2.19
2.51
2.65
2.94
2.93
2.94
2.85
2.90
2.85
3.13
3.25
2015
3.38
3.42
3.44
3.35
3.34
3.23
3.15
3.05
2.79
3.03
2.94
2.92
2016
2.74
2.50
2.67
2.83
2.92
2.99
2.99
2.96
3.08
3.03
2.89
2.81
2017
2.85
3.09
3.23
3.33
3.50
3.58
3.44
3.40
3.42
3.41
3.56
3.54
2018
3.70
3.62
3.50
3.80
3.92
3.98
3.73
3.73
3.56
3.36
3.55
3.67
2019
3.72
3.65
3.89
4.05
4.09
4.34
4.27
3.99
3.79
4.04
4.35
4.49
2020
4.19
4.01
2.95
2.65
2.59
2.83
3.06
2.78
2.77
3.00
3.57
3.74
2021
3.96
4.34
4.16
3.97
4.10
4.25
4.03
3.87
3.94
4.06
4.05
3.79
2022
3.92
3.79
3.59
3.72
3.47
3.39
3.35
3.51
3.55
3.47
3.68
3.72
2023
3.60
3.55
3.44
3.64
3.76
3.78
4.14
3.84
3.52
3.06
3.05
3.31
2024
3.32
3.19
3.25
3.33
3.36
3.47
3.48
3.38
3.28
2.88
2.88
2.92
2025
2.77
2.80
2.84
2.95
3.03
3.00
2.95
2.74
2.71
2.83
2.86
2.87
2026
2.90
2.97
2.70
2.79
2.74
2.71
2.67
2.45
2.36
2.30
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Nifty Financial Services dividend yield, month by monthgreen is a HIGH yield, which is the cheap end

90th pct 1.30median 0.8710th pct 0.50
Dividend yield by month, 2012 to 2026, as the median of each month’s daily closes
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2012
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1.25
1.28
1.27
1.36
1.30
1.23
1.33
1.37
1.31
1.30
1.21
2013
1.20
1.23
1.28
1.29
1.17
1.25
1.36
1.65
1.60
1.64
1.61
1.57
2014
1.60
1.68
1.47
1.39
1.25
1.25
1.26
1.21
1.18
1.20
1.09
1.05
2015
1.01
1.00
0.99
1.02
1.02
1.07
1.08
1.12
1.22
1.15
1.19
1.19
2016
1.27
1.39
1.30
1.25
1.22
1.05
0.98
1.02
1.00
1.02
1.07
1.10
2017
1.08
1.00
0.95
0.93
0.88
0.84
0.57
0.30
0.30
0.26
0.25
0.25
2018
0.24
0.24
0.55
0.57
0.55
0.54
0.49
0.63
0.68
0.76
0.72
0.69
2019
0.69
0.71
0.66
0.64
0.63
0.59
0.57
0.58
0.58
0.54
0.50
0.49
2020
0.51
0.51
0.69
0.77
0.79
0.72
0.60
0.75
0.79
0.75
0.63
0.60
2021
0.57
0.52
0.54
0.26
0.26
0.46
0.47
0.51
0.50
0.48
0.48
0.52
2022
0.51
0.54
0.60
0.53
0.83
0.95
0.81
0.80
0.79
0.80
0.76
0.76
2023
0.79
0.80
0.80
0.76
0.92
0.92
0.74
0.85
0.83
0.84
0.85
0.80
2024
0.78
0.82
0.80
0.80
1.03
0.89
0.86
0.91
0.90
0.91
0.91
0.89
2025
0.93
0.93
0.93
0.85
0.55
0.56
0.88
1.00
1.01
0.96
0.95
0.94
2026
0.85
0.83
0.90
0.89
0.89
0.88
0.96
0.95
0.98
1.00
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Frequently asked questions

What is the Nifty Financial Services P/E ratio today?

The Nifty Financial Services closed at a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.46 on 27 October 2026. NSE publishes it once a day after the close, on a consolidated trailing-twelve-month basis, so it moves on the index and on quarterly earnings revisions — there is no intraday figure.

Is the Nifty Financial Services overvalued right now?

Against its own history it is undervalued: a P/E of 14.46 is the 3rd percentile of 3,610 daily closes, against a median of 18.90 over that span. That describes where this index has traded, not where it should — a market can stay expensive for years, and this is not a signal to act on.

What is a good P/E ratio for the Nifty Financial Services?

There is no single good number, but there is a measured middle: 15.87 to 34.85 is the middle 80% of 3,610 daily closes, and the median sits at 18.90. Below 15.87 is the cheapest tenth of this index's own history and above 34.85 the dearest tenth. Compare it to the index's own past rather than to another market's — earnings mix and growth differ, so an Indian P/E and a US one are not the same quantity.

What is the Nifty Financial Services P/B ratio?

The Nifty Financial Services price-to-book ratio is 2.24 as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 3.17. P/B compares the index to the book value of its constituents' assets, which makes it the steadier of the two — book value does not swing on one quarter's earnings the way a P/E denominator can.

What is the Nifty Financial Services dividend yield?

The Nifty Financial Services dividend yield is 1.00% as of 27 October 2026, against a historical median of 0.87%. It reads backwards from the other two: a HIGH yield is the cheap end, because the same dividends are being bought for a lower price.

How often does this page update, and where do the numbers come from?

From NSE's own daily index file, which carries P/E, P/B and dividend yield for every index it prices — 144 of them have a meaningful P/E today. It is published once after each close and picked up by the hourly refresh, so the figures here are the last published close, never a live quote.

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Consolidated trailing-twelve-month, free-float weighted, one value a day — and why the absolute number tells you almost nothing on its own.

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