- Sequoia Capital-backed
Indigo Paints listed at ₹2607, which is at a 75% premium to the set price band at ₹1,488-1,490 per share. - The company’s market value expanded to ₹12,188 crore after the listing.
- The ₹1,000 crore share sale concluded with the subscription of a little over 117 times the offer value on January 22.
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Within minutes after listing, the shares of Indigo Paints lost nearly 3% of their value and were trading at ₹2521 apiece at 10:05 am in an otherwise robust market.
The company’s market value expanded to ₹12,188 crore after the listing.
The bumper listing was already on the cards!
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And, despite the grey market premium fizzling out a bit, the shares commanded a premium of ₹850-900 today. The grey market premium plunged nearly 10% last week after$4 into the paint business. The entry of a top billionaire like Birla was not a risk investors had factored in at the time of subscription.
The IPO was attractively priced, and nearly all brokerages firms had given it a ‘subscribe’ rating as the Pune-based paint maker emerged as a tight competition to much larger peers like Asian Paints and Berger Paints in recent years. Indigo Paints is a relatively small player with a 2% market share, but its profit has grown significantly, nearly four times in the last three years.
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