Capital Adequacy ratio is used to analyze the capital
available to support risk associated with assets. As per
BASEL any Bank is required to maintain 8% of Risk
weighted assets. In India, the requirement is 9%. Both
the Banks have managed to maintained the ratio over
the last five years.
The D/E ratio is used to study how much of an organisation’s
funding comes from debt or equity. Generally, financing
institutes have higher DE ratios as they take funds directly from
customers. Both the banks have managed to keep a fairly low
and constant ratios where average for HDFC is 9.43 while for