Year 2021 was another great year for fund-raising through equities. A total of Rs 1.8 trillion was raised through initial public offerings (IPOs), qualified institutional placements (QIPs), and rights issues, against the Rs 1.7 trillion raised in the previous year. Funds raised through IPOs quadrupled, while those from rights issues and QIPs reduced.
In the 52 newly listed companies since 2014, fund managers have a total investment of a mere 2.5 per cent of their assets under management.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has extended the market timing for Reliance Petroleum Ltd's IPO by eight hours owing to huge investor interest in the public issue.
Walmart-owned fintech firm PhonePe said it has crossed 500 million lifetime registered users on its platform. With this milestone, 1 in 3 Indians are now on PhonePe. The company said it is the first Indian internet company to have reached this scale globally. This milestone has been achieved in just over 7 years since the PhonePe UPI (Unified Payments Interface) payments launched in August 2016.
Fund mobilisation by companies through equity and debt routes has dropped 20 per cent in 2022 to nearly Rs 11 lakh crore, as exuberance dwindled this year due to expensive credit avenues and volatile markets. The first half of 2023 could continue to remain challenging. The year 2021 was extraordinary for fundraising from the equity and debt routes, while 2022 has seen a slowdown in capital raising owing to elevated volatility provoked by unprecedented inflation globally and the Russia-Ukraine war.
As many as 267 of 453 companies from the BSE500 index are trading above their consensus price targets, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg. Not all companies in the BSE500 index are tracked by analysts.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the country's leading public sector company, is planning an initial public offer of ONGC Petro-additions Limited (OPaL), the special purpose vehicle formed for the Rs 13,500 crore (Rs 135 billion) petrochemical complex at Dahej in Gujarat.
A total of 10 companies collectively managed to garner Rs 6,059 crore (Rs 60.59 billion) through their IPOs during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013, shows an analysis of data available with the stock exchanges.
"We will complete the transformation within May 2007 and are talking to select foreign exchanges for a possible partnership," Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd managing director and CEO Rajnikant Patel said.
Investors should not feel jittery over the stock market fall as it would only bring more sanity into issue pricing, according to an expert on the primary market.
Bids for the issue, which opens on January 23 and closes on January 25, can be made for a minimum of 18 shares and in multiples of 18 thereafter.
Future Cap's IPO was subscribed 8 times over on the second day of is issue.
Divestment in major state-run firms is set to perk up the IPO space, with about six PSUs including Air India, BSNL, Oil India and NHPC, gearing up to sell equity sale in the primary market.
To boost fund raising from markets, Sebi on Thursday proposed e-IPO norms where investors can bid for shares through Internet and eventually on mobiles, while already listed PSUs will be provided a 'fast-track' route for share sales to meet the disinvestment targets.
Proceeds would be used for business expansion, repayment of loans and working capital requirements
India's flag carrier Air-India has shortlisted three companies to act as advisors for its initial public offer to finance the fleet acquisition and is awaiting the government's nod for the IPO, a spokesman of the airline said on Thursday.
Indian bourses saw over $8 billion worth of initial public offers in 2007, but this is just a shade higher than the world's single-largest IPO that was brought by a Russian company.
Reliance Power is being touted as India's biggest ever IPO with an estimated size of over $3 billion, surpassing just over $2 billion raised by DLF. This would be the first ever IPO from Anil Ambani group after being carved out from the erstwhile Reliance empire in 2005.
After the massive price volatility in Shekhawati Poly-Yarn, listed in January, the counter of Omkar Speciality witnessed wild price movements within a couple of days of listing.
The primary markets are finally coming back on track, with the initial public offer (IPO) of state-run lender and electricity distributor Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) getting subscribed within 27 minutes of opening.
This is also the first stake sale by a state-run company in 17 months after REC went public in February 2008 to raise over Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion). The issue will open on August 7 and close on August 11. The company would sell 168 crore (1.68 billion) shares comprising of five per cent stake divestment of the government and infusion of 10 per cent fresh equity.
'India has always been a bottom-up stock-picking market, and as growth recovers with higher liquidity, mid and small-caps always tend to outperform.'
At least 43 of the 175 issuers would have been hit if proposed mechanism had been in place before the R-Power IPO.
Since 11 months, Sebi has not been able to make these companies deposit the required money in an escrow account.
LIC, the country's largest insurer, on Friday ruled out an initial public offer to raise capital, as it has made separate provisions worth about Rs 17,000 crore (Rs 170 billion) in the last few years to meet IRDA's norms.
In a circular issued on Thursday, Sebi said that the remaining locations would be covered in the second phase by March 1, 2013.
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The BSE Sensex plunged by about 35 per cent in the last six months. The benchmark index which was over 20,000 level in January, is currently hovering around 13,000. Pre-IPO placement that was intended to offload about 11 per cent of the post diluted shares has also been put on hold, sources said pointing out that the company would revisit its capital raising plan once the market condition improves.
Paytm's pre-IPO investors, which include likes of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathway, SoftBank and Alibaba, do not seem to be in a hurry to exit India's leading digital payments brand as they continue to believe in its long-term prospect, analysts said. On Tuesday, 86 per cent of Paytm's shares became free to trade after the end of the lock-in period, allowing investors to sell shares that haven't yet been allowed onto the market. Market participants have been speculating on Paytm, post-expiry of lock-in for pre-IPO investors.
Bharti Infratel is a provider of telecom towers and related infrastructure and on a consolidated basis, is one of the largest in India, "based on the number of towers that Bharti Infratel owns and operates and the number of towers owned or operated by Indus, that are represented by Bharti Infratel's 42 per cent equity interest in Indus," according to the offer document.
On the day of Facebook's market debut, trading glitches by the Nasdaq postponed the start of trading in the company by 30 minutes.
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