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Last year turned out to be a bumper year for stock exchanges in India and companies that debuted on bourses in Asia s third-largest economy. Analysts expect more of the same in 2021.
The value of initial public offerings by Indian firms more than doubled in 2020 to 450 billion rupees (Dh22.61bn), from 203 billion rupees recorded the previous year, according to Kotak Investment Banking, which expects the number of IPOs and their values to climb further in 2021.
The rush to list shares in India last year came as local stock markets scaled record highs, despite the country s economy plunging into recession as it grappled with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Public listings in the latter half of the year gave an average gain of 35 per cent on the first day, besting previous records set in an era in which smart-phones didn’t virtually exist, Facebook was still trying to edge out the now dead Orkut, and Whatsapp wasn’t yet born.
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“While HNIs make money from the listing premium, the lenders will make a neat profit with a 3-4 per cent spread,” said an investment banker.
Mumbai: Annus Horribilis: That’s how the future generations might recall 2020. But not those that backed IPOs to the hilt: Their first-day-first-show yields were blockbusters by even the stiffest metrics, giving investors sufficient reason to remember more fondly a calendar year that most others would love to forget quickly.