D-Mart IPO oversubscribed by over 100 times

DSIJ Intelligence / 10 Mar 2017

D-Mart IPO oversubscribed by over 100 times

Investors are applying aggressively to the initial public offering (IPO) of Avenue Supermarts, the operator of supermarket retail chain D-Mart. 

Investors are applying aggressively to the initial public offering (IPO) of Avenue Supermarts, the operator of supermarket retail chain D-Mart. The response to this IPOs is astonishing among all recent IPOs. This is the third IPO in the calendar year 2017.

As per the data available on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the issue has been oversubscribed 105 times on the last day of subscription. It received bids for 460 crore shares as against the total issue size of 4.43 crore shares, excluding anchor investors' portion.

The reserved portion of qualified institutional buyers (QIB) was oversubscribed 145 times, while the portion set aside for non-institutional investors (NII) was oversubscribed 278 times and that of retail investors 7 times.

The company targets to garner Rs 1870 crore at the higher end of the price band of Rs 295-299 through the IPO, which opened on Wednesday. On Tuesday, it had raised nearly Rs 561 crore by allotting shares to anchor investors.

Kotak Mahindra Capital is a global co-ordinator and book running lead manager to the issue. Its book running lead managers are Axis Capital, Edelweiss Financial Services, ICICI Securities, Inga Capital, JM Financial Institutional Securities, Motilal Oswal Investment Advisor and SBI Capital Markets.

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