Life Insurance Corporation of India

Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.

Life Insurance Corporation of India trades at ₹433, in a downtrend and 28 weeks into that stage. That is +2.7% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 7% of a 52-week range of ₹396 to ₹924. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 6 straight weeks.

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 28 of stage 4. At ₹433 it trades +2.7% versus its 200-day average and sits at 7% of its 52-week range (₹396–₹924).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 4.2 years the stock moved −48% while the NIFTY 500 moved +72% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 6 straight weeks — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.

What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.

→ The trend is one thing; the bill is another. Are you paying up for it? Next: the P/BV sits at the 2nd percentile of its own range.

Valuation For a bank we price the book, not the earnings: P/BV is what the market pays for each ₹1 of the bank's net worth. A bank below 1× book is priced below the value of what it owns, net of what it owes.

Life Insurance Corporation of India trades at 3.0× P/BV, about the cheapest it has ever traded. Its long-run median P/BV is 6.8×, measured across 3.8 years of weekly readings. This places the multiple against the stock’s own record, and says nothing about what the business is worth.

Today's P/BV of 3.0× is about the cheapest it has ever traded, against a long-run median of 6.8× measured over 3.8 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.

One caveat before moving on: the net margin is the best this company has ever printed — cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap. If profitability mean-reverts, today's multiple is higher than it looks.

Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year book value grew while the price moved −53.1% — price and book moved together, holding the multiple in its range.

The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the −11.2%/yr price move, ~+56.6%/yr came from book-value growth and ~−67.8 pp from the multiple (compressing). The split is the honest approximate (price return minus book-value growth); it makes the rally itself visible instead of hiding it behind the percentile.

Put together: the multiple is low against its own past, so the story rests on the book-value line underneath it, not the multiple.

The PEG ratio and its quarterly curve, which only the second data source carries, are not drawn on this page: its two data sources disagree by up to 120% on reported income across 14 comparable periods. A figure two sources cannot agree on is not drawn — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

→ Cheap or dear rides on the earnings. Are they actually growing? Next: the fundamental stage — where the business sits in its arc, and how growth has compounded.

Stage: Mixed Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).

Life Insurance Corporation of India reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — the growth curves are steadily positive, but no return curve is held to confirm the Consistent bar. The read is built from 10 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: when the curves disagree, the per-curve reads above matter more than any single verdict.

One or more growth curves carry a base-effect spike — a large year-on-year move off a near-zero or loss-making comparable quarter. Those spikes are capped before the classifier reads the trajectory, and shown pinned on the chart, so a single distorted quarter does not drive the stage call.

A partial read: at least one curve is short, or the returns curve is not the computed quarterly series — hold the stage word a little more loosely.

→ The stage names the trajectory. Next: the revenue line that produces it, quarter by quarter.

4-Factor Sector Score

67.0/100 — rank 1 of 8 in Finance - Insurance · 73% evidence confidence

Life Insurance Corporation of India scores 67.0 out of 100 against the 8 companies it is compared with in Finance - Insurance, ranking 1. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 21.5 + 16.6 + 19.7 + 9.2 = 67. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.

What would change it: The read weakens if ROA rolls over or gross NPA rises while sector-relative strength deteriorates.

Revenue For a bank, revenue is everything the franchise earns — interest on the loan book plus fee and other income.

Life Insurance Corporation of India reported ₹2,76,744 Cr of income in the Mar 26 quarter, +13.8% year on year. That is the 5th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 7 years it has compounded at 8.0% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹9,77,772 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹9,78,893 Cr.

Life Insurance Corporation of India reported ₹2,76,744 Cr of income in the Mar 26 quarter, +13.8% year on year. That is the 5th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 7 years it has compounded at 8.0% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹9,77,772 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹9,78,893 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹9,77,772 Cr (+9.9% on the year), capping 7 years at 8.0% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed ₹2,76,744 Cr, +13.8% year on year — the 5th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +10.0% growth against the decade's 8.0% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +10.0% over the last 4 quarters against +7.6%/yr over the last 8 — stabilising; TTM profit +18.9% vs +18.4%/yr — stabilising.

→ Revenue grew — did the net margin hold as it scaled? Next: 8.5% this quarter (+0.7 pp YoY).

Net margin Net margin — what the bank keeps of every ₹100 of revenue after every cost, provision and tax. It is the cleanest single margin we can read for a lender.

Life Insurance Corporation of India's net margin is 8.5% in the Mar 26 quarter, +0.7 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 8 fiscal years the net margin has ranged 0.4% to 5.9%.

Life Insurance Corporation of India's net margin is 8.5% in the Mar 26 quarter, +0.7 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 8 fiscal years the net margin has ranged 0.4% to 5.9%.

The latest quarter's net margin is 8.5%, +0.7 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 8 fiscal years the net margin has ranged 0.4%–5.9%, and FY26's 5.9% is the top of that band — a record year.

Why: the numbers show the net margin move clearly, but the cost lines behind it sit below what we hold — so we state the move without inventing its driver.

Worth repeating from the valuation section: cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap — a record margin flatters every ratio built on top of it.

→ The net margin held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit +23.3% in the latest quarter.

Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.

Life Insurance Corporation of India earned ₹23,467 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +23.3% year on year. It is the 6th consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹57,453 Cr. The 7-year compound rate is 55.4%. That is 8.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹19,039 Cr.

Life Insurance Corporation of India earned ₹23,467 Cr of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +23.3% year on year. It is the 6th consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹57,453 Cr. The 7-year compound rate is 55.4%. That is 8.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹19,039 Cr.

Mar 26 profit was ₹23,467 Cr, +23.3% year on year — the 6th consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹57,453 Cr (+18.9%), and the 7-year compound rate is 55.4%.

Why profit moved: revenue contributed +13.8% and the margin +0.7 pp — the quarter was revenue-led, with the margin roughly flat.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +18.8% vs revenue +10.0%. Profit is growing faster than sales — fixed costs are being spread over a bigger base, and each extra rupee of revenue drops more to the bottom line.

→ Profit is up — how clean is the loan book behind it? Next: we hold no quarterly loan-book numbers — the section says so plainly.

Asset quality — the ladder Gross NPA is the slice of the loan book where repayments have stopped. Net NPA is what remains after the money already set aside against those loans. Falling is healing; rising is damage arriving.

Loan-book quality history is not available for Life Insurance Corporation of India, so this section names the gap rather than estimating a ratio. No gross or net non-performing-asset series is filed in a form this page can read, and none is inferred from the profit line. The income, margin and return sections above carry the evidence this business does report.

We do not hold quarterly loan-book quality numbers for this bank, so this section states that plainly rather than working around it.

Why: loan-book quality is the engine room of a bank, and its drivers — slippages, recoveries, provisioning — sit below what we hold for this name; the sections around it carry the reads we can stand behind.

→ Behind the profits — is the book itself still growing? Next: revenue grew +9.9% in FY26.

The loan book We read the loan book through revenue — when the book grows, revenue grows with it. It is a rough proxy, and we say so: rate moves and fee swings can shift it a few points in any one year.

Life Insurance Corporation of India's revenue grew +9.9% in FY26 to ₹9,77,772 Cr, so the book is growing. The latest quarter ran +13.8% year on year. The net margin on that income is 8.5%, +0.7 percentage points against a year ago.

FY26 revenue was ₹9,77,772 Cr, +9.9% on the year, and the latest quarter ran +13.8% year on year. The net margin on that revenue is 8.5% this quarter (+0.7 pp YoY) — growth with a widening margin on it.

The synthesis: a lender compounds when the book grows while the margin holds and the loan book stays clean — gross NPA is the loan-quality read we carry here.

→ Does all of this actually earn its keep on equity? Next: ROE is 38%.

Returns on equity and assets Two numbers usually rate a lender: ROE — what it earns on shareholder money — and ROA — what it earns on everything it deploys.

A clean annual return-on-equity ladder is not held for Life Insurance Corporation of India. For an insurer especially the standard bank ratios are not the right lens, so this page does not force them onto the filings rather than estimating a series it cannot support.

We do not hold a clean annual return-on-equity series for Life Insurance Corporation of India — for an insurer especially, the standard bank ratios are not the right lens, so this page does not force them. The revenue, margin and ownership sections above and below are the reads we stand behind.

The quarterly return-on-equity and return-on-assets curves, which only the second data source carries, are not drawn on this page: its two data sources disagree by up to 120% on reported income across 14 comparable periods. A figure two sources cannot agree on is not drawn — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

→ Who owns Life Insurance Corporation of India, and are they adding or leaving? Next: the register is quiet.

Debt

For a bank, borrowings are raw material, not a warning sign — solvency is read through the returns and the loan book. A manufacturer’s debt is a claim against its profits, so the debt-to-equity lens that works everywhere else misleads on a lender and is not applied here.

A manufacturer’s debt is a claim against its profits; a bank’s borrowings are its inventory — money taken in to be lent out. The debt lens that works everywhere else misleads here, so this page does not apply it. The solvency questions for a bank — is the loan book sound, is the equity earning — are read through the loan-book and returns sections above.

→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: the register is quiet.

Ownership Who owns the stock, quarter by quarter: promoters (the controlling owners), foreign and domestic institutions, and the public. Steady accumulation by people close to the numbers is a signal; a quiet register is also an answer.

No holder of Life Insurance Corporation of India moved a full percentage point over the last two years — the register is quiet. Domestic institutions moved +0.1 points over the same window, to 1.0%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Foreign institutions: +0.3 points over 8 quarters to 0.4%; Domestic institutions: +0.1 points over 8 quarters to 1.0%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 96.5%.

→ One last check: does the safety math agree? Next: the balance-sheet safety line.

Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.

Life Insurance Corporation of India: the Z-score is omitted — it was built for manufacturers, not banks, and applying it here would be theatre. The Z-score was built for manufacturers and is not applied to banks and lenders, so solvency here is read from the capital and asset-quality lines instead.

The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score is omitted — it was built for manufacturers, not banks, and applying it here would be theatre.

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