
Ardee Industries' ₹426-crore IPO saw 98x overall subscription, led by NII demand at 233x and QIB at 98x, with retail at 40x.
Ardee Industries' initial public offering was subscribed 98.07 times as of 3.09 p.m. Friday, with a couple of hours left before the issue closed. The ₹426-crore IPO, priced at ₹50-53 per share, consists of a fresh issue of up to ₹320 crore and an offer-for-sale of up to 1.99 crore equity shares by promoters Sandeep Aggarwal and Nikunj Aggarwal.
The non-institutional investors category saw the strongest demand at 233.29 times the shares on offer. Qualified institutional buyers subscribed 98.32 times their portion, while retail investors came in at 39.98 times.
Proceeds from the fresh issue will go primarily toward incremental working capital needs – ₹220 crore – and ₹22 crore toward debt repayment. The company also completed a pre-IPO secondary transaction of ₹115 crore at ₹53 per share last week.
Earlier, Ardee Industries raised ₹127.75 crore from seven anchor investors, allotting 2,41,05,584 shares at the upper end of the price band. The anchor list included Bank of India Small Cap Fund, Ashish Kacholia-led Bengal Finance & Investment Pvt Ltd, Rohit Kothari-led Winro Commercial (India) Limited, and others.
Pantomath Capital Advisors Private Limited is the book-running lead manager for the issue.
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