India SME IPOs move
Novus Loyalty Limited (SME) officially listed on March 25 — part of a flurry of SME market moves that also saw Vivid Electromech open, Tipco Engineering (SME) close, and allotments for Central Mine Planning (M) and Speciality Medicines (SME) reported (x.com). This batch shows continued momentum in India’s SME listing channel even as global IPO markets stay choppy. (x.com).
Novus Loyalty is recorded by BSE as the 711th company to list on the exchange’s SME platform. (bseindia.com) The company’s IPO was issued at ₹146 a share for a total size of ₹60.15 crore. (bseindia.com) Novus’s stock hit a listing high of ₹146 but traded down to ₹138.70 — a c.5% discount to the issue price — with about 16.85 lakh shares changing hands on debut. (business-standard.com) Tipco Engineering’s SME offer closed with 1.56x subscription and raised ₹60.55 crore at the upper price band of ₹84–89 per share. (indiaipo.in) Qualified institutional buyers took 3.2x of their quota while the retail tranche was subscribed about 66%; the basis of allotment was scheduled for late March with a BSE SME listing planned for April 1. (indiaipo.in) Vivid Electromech mobilised roughly ₹37.1 crore from anchor investors ahead of an IPO pitched to raise up to ₹130.54 crore with a price band of ₹528–555 per share. (capitalmarket.com) The Vivid issue opened for subscription in late March with an allotment window in early April and a tentative NSE SME listing in the first week of April. (chittorgarh.com) Central Mine Planning & Design Institute’s large-cap IPO — about ₹1,842 crore at a ₹163–172 price band — was subscribed c.1.05x, with shares slated to list on both NSE and BSE on March 30 and a reported grey market premium near 5%. (moneycontrol.com) Speciality Medicines’ SME issue of ₹29.14 crore was reported subscribed ~2.19x overall, with the QIB portion astonishingly oversubscribed (around 96x); the allotment was finalised in late March and the final issue price was set at ₹124 per share. (moneycontrol.com)