HMA Agro issue closes today
480 crore HMA Agro initial public offering It will close for public offering on Friday. IPO at $555-585 per share. The lot size for the HMA Agro Industries IPO is 25 shares.
Subscription details
On the second day of the IPO, the issuance received a response from all classes of investors. While the individual investor portions were 30 percent subscribed, the non-institutional bidders were subscribed at 58 percent and the qualified institutional buyers’ portion was 37 percent. Overall, the IPO received bids for 23.18 lakh shares for 60,54,054 shares offered.
The company has reserved 50 percent of the net bid portion for qualified institutional buyers, 15 percent for non-institutional investors and 35 percent for retail investors.
Problem details
HMA Agro, which deals in buffalo meat and allied products contributing 97 per cent of its total revenue from operations, consists of a new issue worth Rs 150 crore and offered for sale worth Rs 330 crore by the promoters – Wajid Ahmed, Gulzar Ahmed Mohamed Mehmood Qureshi, Mohamed Ashraf Qureshi and Zulfiqar Ahmed Qureshi and Parvez Alam.
funds interest
The proceeds of the new issue will be used mainly for working capital requirements.
The main investors
As part of the IPO, HMA Agro Industries on Monday raised Rs 144 crore from various anchor investors. The company said it has finalized an allotment of 24.61 thousand shares to anchor the investors, at a price of INR 585 per share, which is the upper price range. Major investors include the Craft Emerging Market PCC Fund, Minerva Ventures Fund, Forbes EMF, Coeus Capital Opportunities Fund, Radiant Global Fund, and Absolute Returns Scheme.
Craft Emerging Market Fund PCC is the largest investor among them, having invested Rs 70 crore in HMA Agro via Citadel Capital Fund and Elite Capital Fund.
About HMA Agro
HMA Agro Industries is one of the largest exporters of buffalo meat in India, accounting for more than 10 percent of India’s exports of frozen buffalo meat. Its products are self-branded, packaged under the brand name “Black Gold”, “Kamel” and “HMA” and exported to more than 40 countries.
Aryaman Financial Services is the sole principal responsible for managing the underwriting in this issue, while Bigshare Services has been appointed as the registrar for this issue.