Shares of Stovekraft Limited debuted on the bourses and closed with gains of 15.83% on BSE on listing day. The company had issued shares at Rs 385 and they closed at Rs 445.95 on BSE and Rs 438.45 on NSE. The company had tapped the capital markets with its fresh issue of Rs 95 crs and an offer for sale of 82.5 lac shares in a price band of Rs 384-385. The issue was open between Monday the 25th of January and Thursday the 28th of January. The company had allotted 48,22,890 equity shares at Rs 385 to 15 anchor investors comprising of 32 entities. The highest allocation of 5,19,460 shares or 10.77% was made equally to four investors namely, Nippon India, Goldman Sachs, Ashoka India Equity Fund and Sundaram Mutual Fund. This was followed by an equal allotment of 3,63,622 equity shares or 7.54% to three anchor investors. This meant that 65.70% of the anchor book was distributed amongst seven anchor investors.

The discovered price was Rs 467 on BSE and Rs 498 on NSE. The traded volume at discovery price was 48,645 shares on NSE and 10,58,448 shares on NSE. The price differential between the two exchanges of Rs 31 or about 8% of the issue price is steep and unheard of if compared say with the last ten listings.

The high on BSE was Rs 495.55, low of Rs 435.05 and the close was Rs 445.95. The gain was Rs 60.95 or 15.83%. The high was the same as the open on NSE at Rs 498, the low was Rs 435 while the close was Rs 438.45, a gain of Rs 53.45 or 13.88%. The traded volume was 117.15 lac shares which was 1.09 times the IPO size of 107.17 lac shares, and 1.99 times the non-anchor portion size of 58.94 lac shares. Delivery volume of 42.50 lac shares was 36.28% of traded volume, 39.66% of IPO size and 72.10% of non-anchor portion. Weighted average of the day’s trade was Rs 458.84 on BSE and Rs 460.97 on NSE. The weighted average is substantially higher than the closing price, implying that there was selling pressure on the stock towards the end of first day.

There were two buy trades on NSE and three sell trades reported on day one. Besides this there was a buy and sell trade reported by one HNI which seems a little odd. This HNI (Jain Sanjay Popatlal) bought 3 lac shares at the price discovery of Rs 498 and sold them at a price of Rs 453.53, losing Rs 44.47 per share or Rs 133.41 lacs. The whole episode looks a little odd. The buy trades were from Nippon India Mutual Fund who bought 7 lac shares at Rs 455.87 and Unifi Capital Private Ltd who bought 6.69 lac shares at Rs 453.07. It may be mentioned here that Nippon India is also an anchor investor in the issue. On the sell side were Copthall Mauritius who sold 2,31,370 shares at Rs 462.48, Integrated Core Strategies who sold 1,92,939 shares at Rs 462.59 and Société General who sold 1,80,000 shares at Rs 451.24. For a company which had a net non-anchor issue size of just about 58.94 lac shares, there was exceptional institutional activity.

Finally, the share has had a decent listing but was under pressure towards the end of the day. With markets being in the grip of bullish fervour, performance in the quarter gone by and ongoing quarters would be key for future movement hereon.