The Bengaluru-based IT company has launched its Rs 702-crore public issue today and the same will close on September 9.
On day one of bidding, Happiest
Minds Technologies' initial public offering is seeing a good response from
retail investors so far.
The public issue has seen a 1.97
times subscription so far as it has received bids
for 4.59 crore equity shares against IPO size of over 2.32 crore shares
(excluding anchor book), as per the data available on exchanges showed.
The reserved portion of retail
investors has subscribed 10 times and that of non-institutional
investors 34.89 percent, while the portion set aside for qualified
institutional investors has seen 8 percent subscription.
The Bengaluru-based IT company
has launched its Rs 702-crore public issue today and the same will close on
September 9. The company already raised Rs 316 crore through anchor investors'
book on September 4.
The issue consists a fresh
issue of Rs 110 crore and an offer for sale of 3,56,63,585 equity shares by
promoter Ashok Soota and investor JP Morgan-backed private equity fund CMDB II.
The issue price band has been
fixed at Rs 165-166 per share. "At upper price band it is offered at 23.6x
FY2020 EPS. Considering the very high exposure to digital services and strong
promoter background we expect that the company will continue to grow at a faster
pace as compared to similar sized companies and therefore should command a
premium valuation to the peer group. We would therefore recommend investors to
subscribe to the IPO," said Yash Gupta, Equity Research Associate at Angel
Broking.
Happiest Mind is a small sized
IT services company promoted by Ashok Soota, who is also the Executive Chairman
and Director of the company. Before founding Happiest Mind in 2011, Soota was
one of the founding members of MindTree prior to which he was also the vice
chairman of Wipro.
Company has strong presence in digital
technologies to drive growth for the company. In FY2020, 96.9 percent of
company's revenues came from digital services and is amongst the highest Indian
IT companies.
The company is divided into
three business units viz. 1) Digital Business processing 2) Product Engineering
Services and 3) Infrastructure management and security services.
The company had 148 active
customers as of Q1FY2021 with the share of repeat business growing consistently
over the year to account for a significant portion of revenues indicating a
high degree of customer stickiness, said Yash Gupta.
Source - Moneycontrol.com

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