Gland Pharma aims to raise Rs 6,479.54 crore via public issue, of which Rs 1,943.86 crore has already been raised from anchor investors on November 6.
Gland Pharma is set to open
its initial public offering for subscription on November 9, but its premium in
the grey market fell significantly after the announcement of issue price band
at Rs 1,490-1,500 per share.
The grey market premium dropped
to around Rs 50-70 against around Rs 200 quoted before the company fixed IPO
price band, sources told Moneycontrol.
The fall is largely attributed to
the pricing of issue which is comparatively on the higher side and also higher
than market expectations given the 80 percent rally registered by the pharma
index from March lows, experts feel.
In fact, the pharma was the
second-highest gainer among sectors in the last 9 months, while the equity
benchmark indices rallied 60 percent in same period and are near record high
levels.
"Gland Pharma is coming up
with the IPO at PE levels of 30.1x for FY20 which is slightly premium to midcap
pharma peers along with this company also trading at EV/Sales of 8.1x and
EV/EBITDA of 20.1x for FY2020 which are also expensive to peers. Price band
fixed by the company is above market expectations as per market news,"
Yash Gupta - Equity Research Associate at Angel Broking told Moneycontrol.
Pharma index has given a good
run-up throughout this year, hence at this point of time the pharma index is consolidating
and other sectors have taken the lead, he said.
Gaurav Garg, Head of Research at
CapitalVia Global Research feels the market was expecting a price band at
around Rs 1,300 per share, which may be the reason for the fall-off premium on
the grey market.
Gland Pharma is largely owned by
the Chinese companies Fosun Singapore and Shanghai Fosun Pharma with 74 percent
stake pre-offer, which could be one of the reasons for the decline in premium,
given the clashes between India and China at border, experts feel.
"At a time when border
tensions are heating up, the business is largely purchased by the Chinese
company and 3.87 percent of the stake is held by 10 companies belonging to
Ramalinga Raju's and the family involved in the Satyam scam," Gaurav Garg
said.
Gland Pharma will launch its
maiden public offer on November 9, which consists a fresh issue of Rs 1,250
crore and an offer for sale of over 3.48 crore shares by promoters and others.
Promoters Fosun Pharma Industrial
Pte and Gland Celsus Bio Chemicals will sell over 1.9 crore shares and 1 crore
shares via offer for sale respectively, while Empower Discretionary Trust will
offload 35,73,014 equity shares and Nilay Discretionary Trust 18,74,500 equity
shares.
The issue will close on November
11. The company aims to raise Rs 6,479.54 crore via public issue, of which Rs 1,943.86 crore has already been raised from anchor investors on
November 6.
The company will utilise the net
fresh issue proceeds towards funding incremental working capital requirements,
funding capital expenditure requirements and general corporate purposes
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