MUMBAI — Of the seventeen large Indian companies this series follows, the one trading closest to its own 52-week high on Tuesday morning is also the one almost nobody is trading. ICICI Bank has turned over about a third of its usual volume, and it is doing so within four and a half percent of the best price it has fetched in a year.
ICICI Bank was quoted at ₹1,413.00 on the National Stock Exchange at 10:28 IST, down ₹2.00 or 0.14 percent on Monday’s close of ₹1,415.00, and at ₹1,413.85 on the BSE. It opened at ₹1,408.00, which was also its low for the morning, reached ₹1,420.00 and settled back. Volume was 6.90 lakh shares. These are live intraday figures from a session that settles at 15:30 IST, and none of them is a closing price.
The Nifty Bank was down 0.23 percent at 57,394.15 and the Nifty 50 down 0.40 percent, so all three of India’s largest lenders were soft, and none of them was moving with any conviction.
The absence of conviction is the point. This is the bank that solved the problem the sector has spent a year failing to solve, its margin is the widest of the three by a distance, and on Tuesday morning the market could not be bothered to trade it.
ICICI Bank Share Price Today: Morning Trade on August 25, 2026
| Measure | NSE · ICICIBANK | BSE · 532174 |
|---|---|---|
| Last traded price | ₹1,413.00 | ₹1,413.85 |
| Previous close (August 24) | ₹1,415.00 | ₹1,414.00 |
| Change so far | -₹2.00 (-0.14%) | -0.01% |
| Open | ₹1,408.00 | – |
| Session high so far | ₹1,420.00 | – |
| Session low so far | ₹1,408.00 | – |
| Volume so far | 6.90 lakh shares | – |
| 52-week high | ₹1,480.00 (only 4.53% above the current price) | |
| 52-week low | ₹1,187.60 (+18.98% from the current price) | |
| Market capitalisation | ₹10,16,176 crore, at Monday’s close | |
| Trailing P/E · Price to book | 18.1 · 2.69 | |
| Book value per share · Return on equity | ₹527 · 15.9% | |
| Live intraday figures captured at 10:28 IST on August 25, 2026, roughly 73 minutes into a session that runs to 15:30. These are last traded prices, not closing prices, and they will change. Open, high and low for the BSE line were not captured in this run, so those cells are left empty. Valuation ratios and market capitalisation are Screener’s, struck at Monday’s close. | ||
ICICI Bank Stock Code on NSE, BSE, NYSE and Global Data Feeds
| Exchange or provider | Code | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| NSE (National Stock Exchange) | ICICIBANK | Series EQ. Nifty 50 and Nifty Bank constituent |
| BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) | 532174 | Scrip code. Group A, BSE Sensex constituent |
| ISIN | INE090A01021 | Depository identifier. Face value ₹2 |
| NYSE (American depositary shares) | IBN | Two ordinary shares per ADS |
| Google Finance | NSE:ICICIBANK · BOM:532174 · NYSE:IBN | The exchange-prefixed format Google requires |
| Yahoo Finance | ICICIBANK.NS · ICICIBANK.BO · IBN | Suffix marks the exchange |
| ISIN, scrip code and the ₹2 face value are confirmed against the BSE’s company header feed and against the paid-up capital line of the bank’s own results filing. The bank’s corporate office is at Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai; its registered office is in Vadodara, Gujarat. | ||
Three Banks, Three Margins, and a Market Ignoring All of Them
India’s three largest lenders are worth about ₹31 lakh crore between them. On Tuesday morning all three were lower, and all three were trading below their normal pace.
| Bank | Price at 10:28 IST | Change so far | Turnover pace | Net interest margin | Distance from 52-week high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICICI Bank | ₹1,413.00 | -0.14% | 0.35x | 4.36% | -4.53% |
| HDFC Bank | ₹727.45 | -0.21% | 0.47x | 3.26% | -28.72% |
| State Bank of India | ₹1,033.60 | -0.57% | 0.93x | 2.86% | -16.29% |
| Prices and turnover are live at 10:28 IST and will change. Turnover pace is calculated by The Eastern Herald as the morning’s volume scaled to a full session, divided by the stock’s 20-day average daily volume, and overstates the eventual full-day ratio because Indian volume is front-loaded. The three margins are not struck on identical bases: HDFC Bank calculates on total assets, ICICI on interest-earning assets, and SBI’s 2.86 percent is its whole-bank figure including foreign offices, so the gaps are wider on paper than in substance. | |||||
The first and last columns line up the way you would expect and the middle one does not. ICICI has the widest margin and sits nearest its high; HDFC Bank has the thinnest of the private pair and sits furthest from its own. The market has clearly made up its mind about which of the two is working. What it is not doing on Tuesday morning is acting on that view, because ICICI is the least-traded name of the seventeen large caps in this series.
The Quarter That Put ICICI Where It Is
Nothing has come out of the bank since Monday’s close. The June quarter, published on July 18, remains the explanation.
| Measure | Q1 FY27 | Change year on year |
|---|---|---|
| Net interest income | ₹24,384 crore | +12.7% |
| Profit after tax | ₹14,805 crore | +15.9% |
| Net interest margin | 4.36% | +2 bps, from 4.34% |
| Total advances | ₹16,31,260 crore | +19.6% |
| Total deposits | ₹18,33,586 crore | +14.0% |
| Average CASA ratio | 38.1% | Against 32% at HDFC Bank |
| Gross NPA · net NPA | 1.38% · 0.35% | -29 bps |
| Provisions (excluding tax) | ₹1,260 crore | -30.6% |
| Capital adequacy | 16.84% | Against 19.60% at HDFC Bank |
| Earnings per share (quarter, basic) | ₹20.65 | +15.3% |
| Standalone figures from ICICI Bank’s filed results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 and the accompanying performance review. Net interest income is calculated by The Eastern Herald as interest earned less interest expended, which reproduces the bank’s own published figure. | ||
One line in that table deserves scepticism rather than applause. Provisions fell 30.6 percent, and a large part of that reduction drops straight through to profit. Put provisions back at last year’s level and profit growth of 15.9 percent becomes something nearer 12 percent, which is still comfortably ahead of what HDFC Bank managed in the same quarter, but is not the same story. From a gross bad-loan ratio already down at 1.38 percent, that tailwind cannot keep blowing indefinitely.
The deposit line is the other one to watch. ICICI is lending 19.6 percent more than a year ago and funding it with deposits growing 14.0 percent. That is the same shape of gap that has caused HDFC Bank so much trouble, on a smaller scale and from a much better starting point, and it is why the bank’s own guidance is that the margin stays range-bound rather than improving.
ICICI Bank Share Price: The Levels for the Rest of the Session
| Level | Price (₹) | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 52-week high | 1,480.00 | 4.53% above the current price |
| Session high so far | 1,420.00 | Above Monday’s close, so the stock has been green today |
| Monday’s close | 1,415.00 | The line between a gain and a loss today |
| Current price | 1,413.00 | At 10:28 IST |
| Session low so far | 1,408.00 | Also the opening price |
| 52-week low | 1,187.60 | 18.98% below the current price |
| Intraday levels are as at 10:28 IST and can extend in either direction. The morning’s range of ₹12 on a ₹1,400 stock is under one percent, which is a very tight band for a bank of this size. | ||
What this article cannot tell you is how long the margin holds. ICICI’s own guidance is that it stays range-bound if policy rates do not move, which makes the position a bet on rates the bank does not control. The filing does not separate how much of the 4.36 percent came from ordinary lending and how much from non-recurring interest income, a distinction that matters when the sequential move is four basis points. And the fall in provisions is the kind of support that reverses. The bank is priced at 2.69 times book on the assumption that none of it does. The session has more than five hours left and nothing here is a forecast.
Across the rest of the morning, Steel Authority of India had traded more shares before half past ten than it manages in an average full day, and Reliance Industries was drifting four percent above its 52-week low on similarly thin turnover.
ICICI Bank’s June-quarter figures are drawn from the bank’s own performance review for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Prices, volumes and the 52-week range are from the NSE and the BSE’s own quote feed for scrip 532174, captured at 10:28 IST.
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