New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- When the company that runs ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund lists on the stock market later this month, it will become the fourth financial services business from the ICICI Group to go public.

In doing so, ICICI Group will break away from two of its peers, SBI Group and HDFC Group, each of which has three listed businesses. All three are behemoths with fingers in every financial services pie of size and significance, having driven and shaped the massive opening up of India's financial sector after 1991. However, they have gone about this is different ways, with banking behemoth SBI delivering some surprises.

Mint takes a closer look at how all three giants are performing.

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