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As many as 15 out of 18 public sector companies listed over the last 8 years have given bumper returns with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders topping the list by making investors richer by a whopping 3,700 per cent, according to an analysis. The analysis shows that barring insurance companies, all central public sector enterprises (CPSEs), especially from shipping and rail sectors, listed since May 2017 gave positive returns to investors who bought shares in the initial public offering (IPO) and have stayed invested in the company so far. Besides, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd and Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) provided over 1,000 per cent returns to IPO investors. Sector wise analysis reveals that Railways and Shipping CPSEs have outperformed CPSEs in other sectors. Mazagon Dock, which listed on bourses in 2020 at an issue price of Rs 145, was trading at Rs 5,510.2 a share on April 22, 2025, ..
The Centre's dividend receipts from CPSEs have exceeded the revised budget estimate by 26 per cent to about Rs 63,000 crore, with PSU behemoths like Coal India, ONGC, Powergrid and GAIL making handsome payouts in the current fiscal. The revised estimates of the Budget presented in Parliament on February 1 pegged dividend receipts from CPSEs at Rs 50,000 crore for the current fiscal. The actual dividend collections have been about 26 per cent higher at Rs 62,929.27 crore in the 2023-24 fiscal ending March 31, 2024, as per the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) website. In March, the government received hefty dividend tranches from ONGC (Rs 2,964 crore), Coal India (Rs 2,043 crore), Power Grid Corporation of India (Rs 2,149 crore), NMDC (Rs 1,024 crore), HAL (Rs 1,054 crore) and GAIL (Rs 1,863 crore). In the last fiscal (2022-23), dividend receipts stood at Rs 59,952.84 crore. Higher dividend is a reflection of the robust financial performance of CPSEs duri