Thursday, July 5, 2007

DLF shares rise 11%; 8th most valued firm

Shares of DLF Ltd jumped 10.85 per cent in the real estate major's second coming to the capital market, making it the eighth most valued firm on the bourses in terms of market capitalisation.

The scrip listed at Rs 582 on the Bombay Stock Exchange against the issue price of Rs 525 and soared to a high of Rs 714.25, briefly propelling the market value to over Rs 100,000 crore.

Billionaire KP Singh-promoted DLF, which had delisted from Bombay Stock Exchange in 1982, was ahead of ICICI Bank and State Bank of India in terms of market cap. Only Reliance Industries, ONGC, Bharti Airtel, NTPC, Infosys, TCS and Reliance Communications had higher market value on BSE.

In the first 15 minutes of trade, the scrip reported turnover of around Rs 330 crore as around 60 lakh shares changed hands on the BSE.The company had offered 17.5 crore equity shares through 100 per cent book-building process. The proceeds of the issue, which got oversubscribed 3.5 times, would be deployed to meet costs of construction, land acquisition and repayment of debt.

Read more in The DNA Money article.

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