Motilal Oswal Financial surges on heavy volumes
The stock has rallied 15% to Rs 205 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
SI Reporter Mumbai Motilal Oswal Financial Services has surged 15% to Rs 205 on back of heavy volumes after the company announced closure of buyback offer.
The company has bought back 7.07 million equity shares of Re 1 each fully paid (i.e. 94.3% of the maximum buyback offer shares) up to June 6, 2014, proposed under the buyback offer, Motilal Oswal Financial Services said in a statement.
Consequent to the aforesaid buyback, the buyback is scheduled to close after trading hours on June 9, 2014, it added.
Mumbai-based broking firm had proposed to buyback a maximum 7.5 million shares at a price not exceeding Rs 90 per share in cash from open market through the stock exchange mechanism.
The stock opened at Rs 185 and touched a 52-week high of Rs 210 on BSE. As many as a combined around 80,000 shares already changed hands on the counter against an average sub 40,000 shares that were traded daily in past two weeks on BSE and NSE.