September 2024 saw a record number of DRHPs filed - 41
Filing of DRHP is a bullish or bearish signal?
Leading or lagging indicator?
😓 Doing an IPO is a lengthy process for a company and it starts a minimum 3 months before the issue is open.
🗄 However, the 1st time public gets to know that an IPO is about to come is when they file a Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with SEBI.
😮 Sep 2024 saw a record number of DRHPs filed - 41
😮 The next highest was in Sep 2010 - 34
🤔 So, filing of DRHP is a bullish or bearish signal?
Leading or lagging indicator?
😶 Well, data doesn't suggest as such anything.
🤑 If we understand the process, an unlisted company will see how secondary market is performing. If there's too much bullishness, many of them will want to cash in, mostly selling their stake through the IPO.
This is what happened in 2017.
❌ Also, filing a DRHP doesn't alway mean IPO will happen. Companies may shelve the IPO if they feel they won't get enough takers for the valuation they are seeking.
📗 However, it's been a little different in the last few years. Most of IPO objective is raising primary capital, means fresh issuance of shares for objectives like business expansion, paying down debt, etc.
💻 Also, all these new-age companies which are private till now, growing on VC/PE money are also confidently coming to the public side, once the companies like Zomato, Paytm, PB Fintech, Cartrade, Unicommerce, etc have led the way.
🤑 Nevertheless, there is enough supply of funds as of now in India, the issue is from the demand side. We need more and more IPOs to come to the market for investors to have more avenues for investing.
💰 This will also help to curtail the exorbitant valuation currently the companies are trading at.
Key Account Manager(Digital Metal) at MMTC-PAMP
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