Riding on a bull run, equity investors became richer by Rs 128.77 lakh crore in the 2023-24 fiscal, driven by robust fundamentals of the Indian economy, increased investment inflows and promising corporate earnings. After a muted performance in 2022-23, equity markets made a remarkable recovery in FY24, giving handsome returns to investors. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 14,659.83 points or 24.85 per cent in 2023-24.
Buoyed by the success of secondary market, IPO market set to see high action
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has paid $1.4 billion to buy out US-based Tiger Global's investment in e-commerce firm Flipkart, according to sources. The transaction puts Flipkart's valuation at $35 billion, against nearly $38 billion in 2021 when it raised funds from Japan's SoftBank, Walmart, and other investors. Tiger Global, Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, and Accel now have all fully exited the e-commerce firm by selling their stake to Walmart.
Given the company's expansion into internet and retail, more investments including mergers and acquisitions seem highly likely.
State-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which completes one year of its listing on Tuesday, presents a sorry scorecard as far as its stock market performance goes. Shares of the insurance behemoth are down 40 per cent over their issue price of Rs 949 to Rs 567 apiece. The Sensex, on the other hand, has risen 14 per cent in the past one year.
Indian companies are now more confident about the execution skills of local banks.
The decline in LIC's share price makes it the biggest wealth destroyer among IPOs which hit the market after COVID-19 took hold globally in 2020.
Sebi has long struggled with balancing the needs of small investors and those of the market.
Online auto classified platform CarTrade Tech on Tuesday said it fixed a price band of Rs 1,585-1,618 a share for its nearly Rs 2,999-crore initial public offer. The initial public offering (IPO) will open for subscription on August 9 and conclude on August 11. The bidding for anchor investors will open on August 6, the company announced. The initial share-sale will be entirely an offer for sale (OFS) of 18,532,216 equity shares.
Gupta's exit comes days after Zomato decided to stop its grocery delivery service from September 17, mainly due to gaps in order fulfilment, leading to poor customer experience.
'To sustain our growth trajectory, we must continue to explore and capitalise on growth opportunities.'
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The stock jumped significantly on listing.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in India are expected to stay buoyant, seen over the last three-four years, despite a slowdown in the first seven months of the calendar year. "M&A is a lumpy business activity, and we may suddenly see large deals taking place during the next two quarters of the calendar year. "This would help maintain the streak of strong M&A activity.
There are all kinds of IPOs - the good, the bad and the ugly. But even though different IPOs are of different qualities, there are some general realities you need to keep in mind.
Investors must exercise discretion to ensure they select an MF scheme based on whether it is a good fit in their investment profile and offers a superior risk-return proposition.
The initial public offering for Patni Computers Systems Ltd was oversubscribed by 2.75 times on Tuesday, the first day for 100 per cent book built issue, with maximum bids at price of Rs 230 per share.
Economic growth, which we are taking for granted, slows for a completely different set of local or global factors and the Modi premium vanishes, observes Debashis Basu.
The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs is all set to announce the guidelines for FDI in commodity exchanges. Following this, the Forward Markets Commission is expected to submit the proposal for ownership structure of exchanges before the Union ministry of consumer affairs.
This is the biggest IPO in the Indian market since Bharti Infratel's over Rs 4,000 crore public offer in December 2012.
The shares - close to 30% of the total holding - are expected to list on rival National Stock Exchange on or around February 3.
At least 11 firms have called-off their Initial Public Offer (IPO) plans since the beginning of 2012, even as the country's largest commodity exchange MCX today made a stellar debut in the stock market after a highly-successful IPO last month, a report has said.
"The decision has been taken due to prevailing adverse market condition...although the QIB and HNI portions of the IPO were fully subscribed and the overall book was closed to 90 per cent," the company said in a statement.
Met with lukewarm response from a volatile market, Wockhardt Hospitals withdrew its IPO. It received bids only for 19.5%.
Spectacular returns by the recent initial public offerings on listing day are prompting a growing number of retail investors and even high net worth investors to borrow funds at a costly 16 to 17 per cent (for two or three weeks) to bid for IPO shares.
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has increased the size of its shareholders' fund to Rs 6,600 crore from Rs 100 crore in a bid to accommodate a larger shareholder base ahead of its public listing. The size of the fund has been enhanced by retaining two years' of dividend and issuing fresh capital, said an official. Increasing the size of the shareholders' fund will help boost the number of shares for allotment in the insurer's initial public offering (IPO). The corpus represents the amount of equity in a company that belongs to its shareholders.
Investment bankers handling the IPO had said marquee global investors made big-ticket applications.
The revival in Mumbai's property market could help the group.
Top Indian private sector lender ICICI Bank, which owns nearly 68 percent of the insurer, is selling up to 181.34 million shares in the IPO.
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, will hold its annual entrepreneurship mock IPO event Lock, Stock and Trade on January 4.
JM Financial, Axis Bank, and Bank of America have been roped in as the bankers to run the mandate, say sources.
Euphoric about India's biggest IPO, possibly to garner up to Rs 15,000 crore, from the world's largest coal producer CIL, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Friday said October is an "auspicious" month to launch the issue.
The year saw as many as 86 IPOs followed by listings, of which 52 are available at a discount.
These firms are Avenue Supermarts, owner and operator of supermarket retail chain D-Mart; Music Broadcast Ltd, a Jagran group firm that runs Radio City FM channel; Shankara Building Product; BSE-promoted CDSL; and test-prep player C L Educate.
Under the 2007 agreement between Vodafone and Essar, the latter has a put option of divesting its stake in the telecom venture.
The IPO grey market premium does not value a company accurately. You may burn your fingers.
The mega initial public offer of realty giant DLF, through which the developer is expecting to garner Rs 9,625 crore (Rs 96.25 billion), got fully subscribed on Tuesday.
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) may require at least five more years to comply with the minimum public shareholding of 25 per cent beyond the current exempted timeline of 2027. Formal communication in this regard had been shared recently with the finance ministry, underlining LIC's roadmap, plans of further dilution of stake, current norms around public float, and challenges ahead, a government source familiar with the matter said. "Going forward, we will have to take a call, along with Sebi (Securities and Exchange Board of India) and the Department of Economic Affairs on the roadmap for minimum public shareholding (MPS).
Eleven years on, while 80% of scam-hit investors have been fully compensated, more than 50% of the sum is yet to be distributed.
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