India’s biggest IPO of 2024 draws staggering $39bn bids

September 12, 2024 (MLN): The home-loan unit of India’s largest shadow lender drew a blockbuster response for its share-sale debut, highlighting continued investor exuberance over listings in the nation, Bloomberg reported.

Bajaj Housing Finance Ltd., which sought to raise 65.6 billion Indian rupees ($781 million) in the nation’s biggest public offering of 2024, attracted bids for about $39bn on the last day of the sale on Wednesday.

That’s more than 1% of the country’s gross domestic product for the fiscal year ended 2024.

Institutional investors drove the frenzied demand, with bids exceeding 200 times the shares set aside for them. Retail category was over-subscribed seven times. The demand surpassed that of Tata Technologies’ blockbuster IPO last year.

India has been bustling with debuts, with $7.75bn raised in listings so far this year. That exceeds the proceeds in each of the past two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Investors have been chasing the first day gain, which has averaged about 30% this year.

Bigger sales are on the horizon — Hyundai Motor Co. will likely raise as much as $3.5bn from the listing of its Indian unit in the coming months, Bloomberg News reported in July.

Bajaj Housing company aims to raise as much as INR 35.6bn via new shares, while founder Bajaj Finance offered up to INR 30bn of shares in the sale.

On September 06, anchor investors, including Government of Singapore, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan India subscribed to 251.14m shares worth INR 17.6bn at INR 70 each.

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