Performance of Newly Listed Shares

Name Date of listing Issue Price closing  price closing price % gain loss  change over
11th June 4th June over week  lssue price
Talwalkar Better Value 10th May 128.00 176.35 173.55 1.61 37.77
Nitesh Estates 13th May 54.00 37.65 39.65 -5.04 -30.28
Mandhana Industries 19th May 130.00 150.40 142.40 5.62 15.69
SJVN 20th May 26.00 24.15 24.25 -0.41 -7.12
Jaypee Infratech 21st May 102.00 80.95 81.45 -0.61 -20.64
Standard Chartered Bank -IDR 11th June 104.00 103.05 N A -0.91 -0.91

Standard Chartered Bank IDR listing morning: Sedate start

Standard Chartered Bank PLC listed its IDR at the BSE and NSE respectively. The IDR’s were issued at Rs 104 with a discount of 5% to retail investors. Yesterday the closing price in London converted into Indian Rupees was Rs 1130 per share or Rs 113. The expected discount of between 6 to 8% is where the share is trading and this is on expected lines.

The IDR began trading on the BSE at Rs 105 and on the NSE at Rs 106. The highs made were Rs 108 on the BSE and Rs 106.40 on the NSE respectively. The lows were Rs 100.60 on the BSE and Rs 100.20 on the NSE respectively. After the first ninety minutes of trade almost 2.2 cr IDR’s were traded. This translates into roughly 9% of the issue size.

Exchange Open High Low  Close Net Change % gain Volume Wt Avg
BSE 105.00 108.00 100.60 104.60 0.60 0.58 8720258 104.84
NSE 106.00 106.40 100.20 104.65 0.65 0.63 13239881 104.89
Total 21960139

The weighted average of the IDR’s traded is Rs 104.85 which indicated a small gain for investors and about 6% for retail investors. Delivery figures and price at end of day will decide what happens next week.

Standard Chartered Bank PLC IDR Issue listing

Standard Chartered Bank PLC would be listing its IDR’s today the 11th of June 2010. The bank had issued a total of 24 cr IDR’s with each IDR equal to 1/10th of a share. The price band was between Rs 100-Rs 115 and the price fixed was Rs 104. On the day of the closure of the issue the price on the LSE was 16.37 GBP which has of yesterday improved marginally to close at 16.49 GBP. Further the conversion or equivalent rupee rate to the pound which was Rs 67.5695 has further weakened to Rs 68.536. This effectively means that against an effective price of Rs 1106.11 on the day of closure of the issue, the price on the eve of listing of India’s first ever IDR the price has gained and is now equivalent to Rs 113.02.

This increases the premium of the IDR compared to the issue price of Rs 104 and would ensure that people should make a profit on listing and selling tomorrow. There are a few concerns on the IDR which need to be addressed straight away. Some of these concerns are as follows:-

  1. The IDR’s cannot be converted into equity shares until one year after listing on the exchange. This effectively reduces the arbitrage opportunity as it cannot be done for one year which is a long time.
  2. Large institutional players like insurance companies cannot invest in this IDR and this would make long term players participation a reason for lack of participation.
  3. Tax treatment of gains from IDR are not treated as shares and hence subject to tax at business rates. Also no securities transaction tax would be levied on the same.

The markets have had a strong showing today across the world whether it was Asia, Europe and the USA. In such a setting it is but natural that the share/IDR would list at a premium to the issue price. There is an important issue that only time will decide. Under the given circumstances where the IDR is not convertible to the underlying equity for one year from date, the IDR should trade at a discount to the underlying share. The question is what a fair discount is. I believe that we would establish a trend in some time but until that is done there could be a discount of 6 to 8% in the short run before some trend can be established. If one were to accept this to be a correct value then the likely trading price tomorrow could be anything between Rs 104 and Rs 106. This would mean that the IDR trades at a premium to the issue price of Rs 104 and the retail investor makes his 5% plus anything above Rs 5.

Today should be an interesting listing with India’s first IDR all set to trade on the BSE and NSE.  

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