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A little-known equity market research firm has pegged Rs 7.8 lakh crore valuation for the Tata group's NBFC holding company Tata Sons on listing going by the current market cap of the group firms. Being an upper-layer non-banking finance company, Tata Sons has to go public over the next 18 months as per the RBI norms. Tata Sons could list within the next 1.5 years as the Reserve Bank classified Tata Sons as an upper-layer NBFC last year, which makes it mandatory for it to list itself by September 2025, Spark Capital said in a note on Tuesday. The report stated that the listing can lead to the simplification of the complicated group-holding structure of the group. Recent news reports indicated that the company can fetch a valuation of Rs 11 lakh crore and the IPO size will likely be around Rs 55,000 crore. We believe that 80 per cent of Tata Sons' holdings may not be monetisable but the process of restructuring can trigger a re-rating. "There are multiple levers of value available f