Category	Low	High

Long-term bond rate	6.9%	7.4%
Equity market risk premium	8.3%	9.3%
Adjusted beta	0.88	0.95

Additional risk adjustments	0.0%	0.5%
Cost of equity	14.1%	16.8%

Tax rate	24.7%	24.8%
Debt/Equity ratio	0.23	0.23
Cost of debt	5.0%	5.0%

After-tax WACC	12.2%	14.3%


Selected WACC	13.2%

KOTAKBANK.NS WACC - Detailed calculations of Beta

		Debt/Equity		Unlevered
Peers	Company Name	ratio	Beta	beta

KOTAKBANK.NS	Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd	0.23	0.87	0.74
AXISBANK.NS	Axis Bank Ltd	0.59	1.26	0.87
DCBBANK.NS	DCB Bank Ltd	2.04	1.16	0.46
ICICIBANK.NS	ICICI Bank Ltd	0.21	0.99	0.85
IDBI.NS	IDBI Bank Ltd	0.22	1.29	1.11
IDFCFIRSTB.NS	IDFC First Bank Ltd	0.77	0.82	0.52
INDUSINDBK.NS	Indusind Bank Ltd	0.81	1.42	0.88
PNB.NS	Punjab National Bank	0.93	1.13	0.67
SBIN.NS	State Bank of India	0.86	0.91	0.55
YESBANK.NS	Yes Bank Ltd	1.07	1.13	0.62

	Low	High

Unlevered beta	0.65	0.78
Relevered beta	0.82	0.93
Adjusted relevered beta	0.88	0.95

KOTAKBANK.NS's CAPM model and how its cost of Equity is calculated

The Cost of Equity reflects the return a company needs to deliver to shareholders to justify the risk of investing in its shares. It’s computed using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which blends the risk-free rate, the stock’s beta, and the market risk premium.

This method evaluates the stock’s risk compared to a safe investment and the market’s overall volatility.

Here’s how we figure out the cost of equity for KOTAKBANK.NS:

cost_of_equity (15.45%) = risk_free_rate (7.15%) + equity_risk_premium (8.80%) * adjusted_beta (0.88) + risk_adjustments (0.25%)

We include the risk adjustments, which range from 0% to 1%, to keep our WACC conservatives, especially for companies traded in developing markets.