Protean eGov Technologies closes debut day with 11% listing gains

• The stock listed at ₹819 as compared to its issue price of ₹792 per share.
• Its market cap is at ₹3,307 crore, according to Bombay Stock Exchange.
• The ₹490 crore IPO was subscribed 23.86 times the shares on offer.

Protean eGov Technologies opened at 3% premium on Monday on the first day of Samvat 2080. The stock listed at ₹819 as compared to its issue price of ₹792 per share in early morning trade.

However, the stock gained during the trading session to close 11% above its listing price. The grey market was expecting 10% listing gains from the stock.

Its market cap is at ₹3,307 crore, according to Bombay Stock Exchange. The stock listed only on BSE.

The listing performance of the recent debuts had been mixed with a few hits and misses.

Here are the listing gains of the last few market debuts


Protean eGov Technologies IPO price band was fixed at ₹752-792 per share. The company has no listed peers in the market.

Ahead of the IPO, it raised ₹143 crore from anchor investors like BI General Insurance Company, SBI Life Insurance Company, Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Company, LIC Mutual Fund and Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund.

“There has been a manifold increase in digital payments in the recent past. To further boost digital transactions, the finance minister in Union Budget 2023-2024 earmarked ₹115.4 billion to bolster the digital India initiative of which ₹1.5 billion are proposed to provide financial incentive to promote digital mode of payments,” the company said in its RHP.

The company is a market leader in universal, citizen centric and population scale e-governance solutions. It has 45% market share in PAN allocation.

Since inception in 2023, it has managed 19 projects spread across seven ministries and autonomous bodies. It’s been the chief architect and implementer for critical and large-scale technology infrastructure projects in the country.

It collaborates with the government and has extensive experience in creating digital public infrastructure and developing innovative citizen-centric e-governance solutions.

“At the upper price band, the company is valued at a P/E ratio of 29.9 of its FY23 earnings with a market cap of ₹32,034 million post issue of equity shares. We believe that the issue is fairly priced and recommend ‘Subscribe –Long Term’ rating to the IPO,” said a report by Anand Rathi.

The government is also setting up various initiatives such as setting up of 75 digital banking units in 75 districts across the country by scheduled banks and 100% inclusion of post-offices under the core banking systems thus providing features such as net banking, mobile banking, ATMs, and also provide online transfer of funds between post office accounts and bank accounts have been taken.