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PNB share price target 2026
Support, resistance, the F&O structure and the BazaarBaazi Crack Score for Punjab National Bank, refreshed every end-of-day run. Asset-quality recovery, slippage trajectory, and where the PSU-bank rotation finds room in a tape where private banks set the pivot.
The verdict
BazaarBaazi reads PNB as range-bound with a Crack Score of 62/100 as of 27 Jun 2026 with support read near 103 and 113 the level to clear.
BazaarBaaziSource & method
Price target: support and resistanceComputed 27 Jun 2026
Levels are a structural band around the live spot 108, set at 5.0% either side for psu volatility. The pivot tracks the live print; support and resistance re-derive on every end-of-day run.
Support
103Pivot / last ref
108Resistance
113These are structural reference lines, not a SEBI-registered price target. BazaarBaazi is independent media; the levels frame how the desk reads the PNB chart, refreshed every end-of-day run.
The Crack Score, and how it is built62 / 100 · Constructive
The Crack Score is a deterministic 0 to 100 conviction number. Here is exactly what moved it for PNB, so the figure is a transparent signal rather than a vibe.
Base 50, adjusted by the factors above and clamped to 0 to 100. How the Crack Score works.
About Punjab National BankBusiness profile
What PNB actually does, and the edge that holds its position.
Punjab National Bank is the North Indian deposit machine still living down a major fraud-driven stress episode, a turnaround that lives or dies on the credibility of its asset quality. One of India's oldest and largest public-sector banks, it covers retail banking, corporate lending, agricultural finance, and international banking, and the 2020 absorption of Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India made it the second-largest public-sector bank by advances. The bank serves a deep base of government employees, farmers, and small businesses through an extensive branch network across North India and beyond.
PNB's scale, government ownership, and deep penetration in North Indian agricultural and semi-urban markets give it a deposit and distribution base that smaller regional banks cannot challenge. The sovereign ownership creates an implicit depositor confidence that supports low-cost CASA funding.
The F&O viewHorizon · 1d
How the futures and options structure on PNB reads right now.
Near-money option writing carries a call-heavy PCR of 0.69 near the money (writers capping the upside), with the active cage between the 105 PE and the 111 CE, and the heavier open interest sits on the call side, so the upside is the wall the desk watches. Max-pain pulls toward 107, the level the writers' book is least exposed to into expiry. This is a structural read of the live option chain, not a derivatives trade recommendation.
Why it movedLatest editorial line
The most recent BazaarBaazi read on what is driving PNB.
SBI ticked 0.7%, Bank of Baroda 1.1%, PNB 1.3%.
Read in Opening 15 on 14 May 2026. Why PNB moved, the living explainer, tracks every move on one URL.
The 2026 to 2030 pictureStructural read
What genuinely drives PNB over a multi-year horizon. A structural read, not a price forecast.
For 2026 to 2030, PNB's trajectory is a function of how effectively it integrates the merged entity's technology and culture, reduces its legacy NPA stock, and rebuilds return on equity to a level that private peers already operate at. The structural tailwind is India's priority-sector credit expansion; the structural risk is that public-sector banks face political lending mandates that can recreate NPA cycles. What BazaarBaazi thinks: this is a cleanup-and-re-rate trade, not a quality compounder, the scale and sovereign-backed deposit base are genuine, and the only honest way to own it is to demand proof on credit costs every quarter and accept that PNB carries a deeper governance discount than SBI for good reason.
What to watch:
- NPA reduction pace and provision coverage ratio
- Credit cost trends in the merged loan book
- Capital adequacy ratios and government recapitalisation timing
- Cost-to-income ratio as branch rationalisation progresses
- Recovery from legacy bad-loan accounts
Peers and how to compare3 listed names
The listed names PNB is most often read against. Compare them on the same Crack Score and levels.
Live valuation readQ4 FY05 earnings · live spot
P/E, P/B, yield and the quality set for Punjab National Bank, computed from the latest filed results times the live spot. The price-driven ratios (marked) refresh every session; ROE and margins hold until the next results.
P / E
6.7x
Earnings yield
14.83%
P / B
0.83x
P / S
2.11x
Market cap
Rs 1.24 lakh cr
Enterprise value
Rs 1.22 lakh cr
Return on equity
12.3%
Net profit margin
31.2%
Stored from Punjab National Bank's filed results, as of 2026-06-22 and currency-checked. Price input Rs 107.91 from baked EOD spot. Open the calculator, move the price and watch every ratio react.
Latest filed resultsQ4 FY26
Punjab National Bank's most recent quarter, parsed straight from the official NSE filing. Every figure links back to its primary source.
Result Pulse
50 / 100Revenue
Not disclosed (bank basis)Net profit
Rs 5,225 crEPS (quarter)
Not disclosed| Growth | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | n/a | -2.7% |
| Net profit | n/a | +0.7% |
| Net margin | +14.2% | |
Figures are the Q4 FY26 result for Punjab National Bank, parsed straight from the official NSE integrated filing and verified to the paisa. The EPS shown is for the quarter, not a trailing-twelve-month figure, so it is not a P/E input.
Earnings historyLast 8 quarters
Punjab National Bank's official quarterly revenue, EPS and Result Pulse trail from the verified filings export. These are quarterly facts, not TTM valuation inputs.
PNB official result trail
8 quarters
Quarterly figures only: revenue, net profit and EPS are copied from official filings. EPS here is not trailing twelve month EPS and is not used for valuation.
| Quarter | Revenue | EPS | PAT YoY | Pulse | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 FY26ended 31 Mar 2026 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | n/a | Filing |
| Q3 FY26ended 31 Dec 2025 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | 44/100 | Filing |
| Q2 FY26ended 30 Sep 2025 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | 60/100 | Filing |
| Q1 FY26ended 30 Jun 2025 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | 50/100 | Filing |
| Q3 FY25ended 31 Dec 2024 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | n/a | Filing |
| Q2 FY25ended 30 Sep 2024 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | n/a | Filing |
| Q1 FY25ended 30 Jun 2024 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | n/a | Filing |
| Q4 FY24ended 31 Mar 2024 / Consolidated, audited | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | n/a | n/a | Filing |
What changed7 disclosures
Every recent official filing from Punjab National Bank, straight from the exchange feed, with the BazaarBaazi Event Heat on the disclosure flow.
Punjab National Bank has filed 7 official disclosures recently. The most recent is a Dividend dated 12 Jun 2026.
Event Heat
66 / 100Board Meeting to be held on 05-May-2026 to consider and approve the Yearly Audited Financial results of the Company for the period ended March 2026 and Dividend
To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended March 31, 2026 and dividend
Board Meeting to be held on 19-Jan-2026 to inter-alia consider and approve the Unaudited Financial results of the Company for the Quarterly ended December 2025
To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended December 31, 2025
Event Heat is a dated net read of Punjab National Bank's last 90 days of official disclosures, balancing the constructive filings against the ones to watch. It is a signal from what the company has filed, not investment advice. Every line above links to its official exchange filing, and the full market desk is at the disclosures hub.
Key fundamentalsEditorial reference
The anchor data BazaarBaazi references when reading the PNB chart. Not a substitute for a registered research note.
| Ticker | PNB |
|---|---|
| Full name | Punjab National Bank |
| Sector | PSU bank |
| Index class | PSU |
| ISIN | INE160A01022 |
| Market-cap band | ₹1.20 lakh cr |
| Last referenced level | Inside latest show |
| Last session move | Not referenced this cycle |
| Editorial line in | Opening 15 on 14 May 2026 |
| Aliases tracked | PNB |
Reference chartLevels in show
The daily frame the desk reads on PNB.
FAQ14 reader questions · AEO-eligible
The line on PNB, distilled and schema-marked for AI Overview, Perplexity, and reader search.
What is the PNB share price target for 2026?
BazaarBaazi does not publish a SEBI-registered price target. Its structural read on PNB as of 27 Jun 2026 watches support near 103 and 113 as the level to clear, against a last referenced 108. This is editorial framing of the chart, not a regulated target.
What is BazaarBaazi's Crack Score for PNB?
The BazaarBaazi Crack Score for PNB is 62 out of 100 as of 27 Jun 2026, a constructive reading. It is a computed conviction number from the signed stance, how consistent the recent verdicts have been, the quality of the printed structure, and how fresh the review is. It is a transparency signal, not investment advice.
What is the F&O view on PNB?
As of 27 Jun 2026, BazaarBaazi reads PNB positioning as a two-way range write, with the writers' cage between 103 and 113. This is a structural reading of the option chain, not a derivatives recommendation.
What sector is PNB in and which peers does BazaarBaazi track?
PNB sits in PSU bank (psu), indicative market cap ₹1.20 lakh cr, ISIN INE160A01022. The peers BazaarBaazi reads alongside it are HDFC Bank Ltd. Asset-quality recovery, slippage trajectory, and where the PSU-bank rotation finds room in a tape where private banks set the pivot.
How often is the PNB view updated?
This page is one evergreen URL refreshed in place. The Crack Score and levels re-compute on every BazaarBaazi end-of-day run, and the dated stamp shows the last refresh. The latest signed verdict on PNB is neutral, published in Opening 15 on 14 May 2026.
Is PNB a good long-term stock?
What drives PNB is the pace of legacy NPA cleanup and a return-on-equity climb toward private-peer levels, and the risk the Crack Score cannot capture is whether the credit culture has genuinely reformed or whether the next political lending cycle simply restarts the bad-loan machine. Its NPA history means investors watch asset-quality metrics more closely here than for private peers. BazaarBaazi publishes a Crack Score for current positioning rather than a long-term price prediction.
PNB share price target 2030?
A 2030 target on a turnaround PSU bank is a coin toss dressed up as a forecast; what genuinely drives the stock is NPA resolution progress, return-on-equity recovery, and whether India's credit cycle stays benign. BazaarBaazi does not publish a fixed 2030 price target for PNB. See the dated Crack Score on the BazaarBaazi PNB page.
Why is PNB share falling?
PNB corrects whenever the market revisits its NPA legacy, when credit costs spike, or when public-sector banking sentiment sours, and because the franchise still trades on trust-in-recovery, any fresh asset-quality scare hits it harder than a clean private peer. Rate cycles and RBI provisioning guidance also move the stock. The BazaarBaazi PNB page has the current Crack Score and key levels.
What was Punjab National Bank's Q4 FY26 net profit?
Punjab National Bank reported a net profit of Rs 5,225 cr for Q4 FY26 (the quarter ended 31 March 2026). The figure is from the company's official NSE filing.
Why is Punjab National Bank's Q4 FY26 revenue not shown?
Punjab National Bank files on a bank basis, which does not report a single comparable revenue line, so BazaarBaazi reads the Q4 FY26 result off net profit rather than printing a misleading revenue figure. The figure is from the company's official NSE filing.
How does BazaarBaazi rate Punjab National Bank's Q4 FY26 result?
BazaarBaazi gives Punjab National Bank's Q4 FY26 result a Result Pulse of 50 out of 100, with a verdict of Mixed. The Result Pulse is a BazaarBaazi editorial score for the quality of the filed result, not investment advice.
What has Punjab National Bank announced recently?
Punjab National Bank's two most material recent disclosures are a dividend dated 12 Jun 2026, "Dividend - Rs 3 Per Share", and a board meeting dated 05 May 2026, "Board Meeting to be held on 05-May-2026 to consider and…". Both link to the company's own official filing on the BazaarBaazi stock page.
Has Punjab National Bank declared a dividend recently?
Yes. Punjab National Bank filed a dividend disclosure on 12 Jun 2026, filed as "Dividend - Rs 3 Per Share". Any amount shown is the exchange's own record, linked from the BazaarBaazi stock page. A dividend is a declared payout, not a forecast of future returns.
What did Punjab National Bank's latest board meeting cover?
Punjab National Bank's most recent board-meeting disclosure on record dated 05 May 2026 reads "Board Meeting to be held on 05-May-2026 to consider and approve the…". That is the agenda as filed with the exchange, linked from the BazaarBaazi stock page, and BazaarBaazi adds no claim of its own to it.
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