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Shilpa Rangarajan
Shilpa Rangarajan
Of 151 SME IPOs listed this year, 70 trade below their issue price and 21 have lost at least half their value, while mainboard issues have delivered stronger returns
Quant MF builds sizable positions in ICICI Prudential AMC and Nippon Life India AMC across multiple schemes
Low-P/E IPOs delivered strong post-listing gains, while expensive issues saw returns front-loaded at listing
September's listings were at a median of 31 times. However, ESDS Software Solution (155 times), Hero Motors (143 times), and Prasol Chemicals (114 times) stood out. The NSE traded at 49 times
Rising crude prices, firm US yields, global risk aversion weigh on Indian equities
Titan and TCS led declines in Tata Group stocks as investor sentiment weakened amid broader market volatility and uncertainty over Tata Sons' listing
Investable household assets rose to nearly $5.2 trillion in FY25, while individual investors' share of the Indian equity market reached a two-decade high of 18.7%
SME Emerge has risen 4.34% this month, 5.55% in CY26
Brent crude's 11% weekly plunge and a hardening 10-year bond yield weighed on insurance stocks; PB Fintech craters 33% on IRDAI reform fears
Nifty 50 matches its seven-week losing streak during the 2020 Covid crash as elevated crude prices, rising US Treasury yields and weak foreign flows weigh on equities
Dun & Bradstreet study shows the share of zombie firms fell to 5.5% in 2025 from 8.1% in 2017, signalling stronger corporate debt-servicing capacity
Active largecap funds see outflows as Nifty 50 approaches oversold territory; IPO launches continue this week, though issue sizes are set to shrink
PB Fintech was down 36 per cent on the NSE. HDFC Mutual Fund bought 2.5 million shares of PB Fintech worth ₹320.6 crore through a block deal at ₹1,282.3 per share
Nifty 50 hits two-week high as crude softens on US-Iran diplomacy hopes
Secondary share sales provide founding owners and private equity backers an orderly exit mechanism without diluting a company's equity base or expanding its share float
FPIs sell ₹23,676 crore in the secondary market, analysts see scope for a Nifty recovery, and grey-market premiums signal divergent IPO prospects this week
TCS led the decline, erasing ₹30,754 crore in market value, while shares of Tata Chemicals, Tata Technologies and Tata Elxsi also fell sharply on Friday amid the row
Five of the six companies ended above their issue prices, led by Karamtara Engineering, as a record number of mainboard firms listed on the stock exchanges in a day
Indian equities recover as FMCG and PSU bank stocks gain, while IT shares and Tata group stocks face selling pressure ahead of the Tata Sons board meeting
In the Nifty 50, the most tracked index by passive funds, the group's combined weight declined to 7.6 per cent in August 2026 from 8.3 per cent in August 2025