Kotak Securities

Kotak Securities

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Year of Incorporation	1994
Website	http://www.kotaksecurities.com
Phone	1800 222 299
Exchanges enabled	NSE, BSE, MCX-SX, MCX & NCDEX
Demat (NSDL/CDSL)	NSDL/CDSL

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Equity & Commodity Consolidated

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Profit after Tax FY11/12	Rs 145.1 Crores
Profit after Tax FY12/13	Rs 123.8 Crores
Profit after Tax FY13/14	Rs 163.6 Crores
Profit after Tax FY 14/15	Rs 283.3 Crores
Profit after Tax FY 15/16	Rs 251.5 Crores
Profit after Tax FY 16/17	Rs 365.2 Crores
Profit after Tax FY17/18	Rs 540.3 Crores
Debt FY11/12	Rs 121 Crores
Debt FY12/13	Rs 91 Crores
Debt FY13/14	Rs 69 Crores
Debt FY14/15	Rs 567 Crores
Debt FY15/16	Rs 1973 Crores
Debt FY 16/17	Rs 988.9 Crores
Debt FY 17/18	Rs 2249.7 Crores
Profit to Equity(%) FY11/12	8.40
Profit to Equity(%) FY12/13	5.92
Profit to Equity(%) FY13/14	8.28
Profit to Equity(%) FY14/15	13
Profit to Equity(%) FY15/16	10.3
Profit to Equity(%) FY16/17	14
Profit to Equity(%) FY17/18	18
Balance Sheet Size FY11/12	Rs 3094 Crores
Balance Sheet Size FY12/13	Rs 2980 Crores
Balance Sheet Size FY13/14	Rs 3323 Crores
Balance Sheet Size FY14/15	Rs 4649 Crores
Balance Sheet Size FY15/16	Rs 4262 Crores
Balance Sheet Size FY16/17	Rs 6564.2 Crores
Balance Sheet Size FY17/18	Rs 8524.7 Crores

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Active clients

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Active clients - 2013	2,23,280
Active clients - 2014	2,68,459
Active clients - 2015	2,46,945
Active clients - 2016	2,57,563
Active clients - 2017	3,42,482
Active clients - 2018	4,09,619

Brokerage

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Equity	0.05% for Intraday & 0.5% for Delivery - Reduces upto 0.01/0.1 if brokerage paid upfront
Equity Futures	0.05% - Reduces upto 0.01% if brokerage paid upfront
Equity Options	Rs 100/lot - Reduces upto Rs 30/lot if brokerage paid upfront
Currency Futures	0.05% - Reduces upto 0.01% if brokerage paid upfront
Currency Options	Rs 100/lot - Reduces upto Rs 30/lot if brokerage paid upfront
Commodity	0.05% - Reduces upto 0.01% if brokerage paid upfront

Account Opening Costs

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Trading only	NA
Trading & Demat	Rs 750
Commodity	Rs 250

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Equity	0.00325% of Turnover
Futures	0.00436% of Turnover
Options	0.0594% of Premium Turnover
Commodities	0.00436% of Turnover
AMC charge	Rs 50/Month
DP Transaction Charge	0.04% or Rs 27/debit transaction whichever is higher
Offline order placing Charge	Rs 20/call after the first 20 orders every month

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Intraday	5 Days
End of Day	5 Years
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Equity	Upto 15 Times for Intraday, For Delivery upto 3 times but at Interest of Rs 75/Lakh/day or @24%/annum
Equity Futures	Upto 5 times Intraday
Equity Options	Buying No Margin, Shorting upto 2 times for Intraday
Currency Futures	Upto 2 times Intraday
Currency Options	Buying No Margin, Shorting upto 2 times for Intraday
Commodity	Upto 2 times Intraday

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Reviews on Kotak Securities

Pooja Mishra

21 August 2014

Kotak is a good broker, if you want to trade some stocks but are planning not to be active in market, they have good platform and convenient service. But when I started trading in Nifty Options the brokerage was very very high, I was paying 50 Rs per lot, and generally trade 5 lots of call/put, so brokerage excluding taxes use to cost Rs. 500 per trade, I thought it must be a standard everywhere, thanks to website..I see so many brokers who charge so much lesser!

Raghav Patel

27 August 2014

Hi Pooja, If you have started trading in options would recommend you to look for a fixed brokerage rate, instead of paying per lot. There was plenty of discount brokers who offer minimal brokerage and good service. Do check out our broker directory..