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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Muthoot IPO fully subscribed

Mumbai, Apr 20: The initial public offer (IPO) of country’s largest gold financing company, Muthoot Finance, got over subscribed 7.09 times till 1500 hrs on the third day of issue on Wednesday.

The company’s IPO received bids worth 31.04 crore equity shares as against 4.3 crore shares on offer, as per a data available with the National Stock Exchange till 1500 hrs.

Muthoot Finance has entered the capital market with a price band of Rs 160—175 a share for the IPO of 5.15 crore equity shares.

At the lower end of the price band, the company will raise Rs 824 crore, while on the upper end it will mop up Rs 901.25 crore.

The bid, which opened for subscription on April 18 will close today for QIB bidders and tomorrow for retail and non-institutional investors.

The IPO proceeds will be utilised to augment the company’s capital base for meeting future capital needs, for funding of loans and for general corporate purposes.

ICICI Securities, Kotak Mahindra Capital Co are the book running lead managers to the issue, while HDFC Bank is the co-book running lead manager.

Kerala based Muthoot Finance is a non-deposit taking, non-banking finance company.

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