Bharti Hexacom IPO is a book-built issue of Rs 4,275.00 crores. The issue is entirely an offer for the sale of 7.5 crore shares. The IPO opens for subscription on April 3, 2024, and closes on April 5, 2024.
The price band for the IPO is set at ₹542 to ₹570 per share and the minimum lot size for an application is 26 Shares.
Company Summary
This company is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone, and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India, which comprises the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura.
They also derive significant synergies from their relationship with their Promoter, Airtel, through the expansive digital infrastructure, digital experience, and the digital services it provides to its customers.
As of December 31, 2023, they were present in 486 census towns and had an aggregate of 27.1 million customers across the Rajasthan Circle and Northeastern Circle.
As of the same date, their customer base included 19,144 thousand data customers, of which 18,839 thousand were 4G and 5G customers, and data consumption per customer per month stood at approximately 23.1 GB during the nine months ended December 31, 2023.
Furthermore, As of December 31, 2023, they utilized 24,874 network towers, of which they owned 5,092 towers, and the remaining 19,782 towers were leased from tower companies.
They have an extensive distribution and service network across the regions they operate in and during the nine months that ended December 31, 2023, and the last three Fiscals, they have set up 51 retail outlets and 24 small format stores to reach 90 cities, as of December 31, 2023. As of December 31, 2023, their distribution network comprised 616 distributors and 89,454 retail touchpoints.
Company Strengths
They have a gamut of digital offerings to enhance customer engagement and differentiated customized offerings through family and converged plans under the Airtel Black proposition, which has resulted in the continuous improvement of their revenue market share during the last three Fiscals.
Their revenue market share for the Rajasthan circle was 40.4%, 39.2%, 39.5%, 36.7%, and 32.7%, while for the North East circle was 52.7%, 52.4%, 52.5%, 48.5%, and 42.0% during the nine months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 and Fiscals 2023, 2022 and 2021.
Their customer market share has grown consistently in Rajasthan from 33.1% as of March 31, 2021, to 35.0% as of December 31, 2023, and in the North East from 43.6% to 49.8% between the same dates.
They have the highest number of Visitor Location Register (“VLR”) customers (6.4 million) and a VLR market share of 52.3% in the North East circle and the second highest in the Rajasthan circle with 23.2 million customers and a VLR market share of 38.7%, as of December 31, 2023.
Company Financials
Period Ended | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2021 |
Assets | 19,603.00 | 18,252.90 | 16,674.30 | 15,003.50 |
Revenue | 5,420.80 | 6,719.20 | 5,494.00 | 4,704.30 |
Profit After Tax | 281.80 | 549.20 | 5,494.00 | -1,033.90 |
Net Worth | 3,978.80 | 3,972.20 | 3,573.20 | 1,898.70 |
Reserves and Surplus | 4,166.10 | 3,959.50 | 3,410.50 | 1,736.00 |
Total Borrowing | 6,253.00 | 6,269.30 | 7,198.30 | 5,975.20 |
Amount in ₹ Crore |
Objectives of the issue
The Company will not receive any proceeds from the Offer and all the Offer Proceeds will be received by the Selling Shareholder post deduction of Offer-related expenses to be borne by the Selling Shareholder.
Promoters of the company
Bharti Airtel Limited is the Promoter of the Company. They hold 350,000,000* Equity Shares in the Company, representing 70.00%* of the pre-offer issued, subscribed, and paid-up equity share capital of the Company.
IPO details
IPO Date | April 3, 2024 to April 5, 2024 |
Listing Date | Friday, April 12, 2024 |
Face Value | ₹5 per share |
Price Band | ₹542 to ₹570 per share |
Lot Size | 26 Shares |
Total Issue Size | 75,000,000 shares (aggregating up to ₹4,275.00 Cr) |
Offer for Sale | 75,000,000 shares of ₹5 (aggregating up to ₹4,275.00 Cr) |
Issue Type | Book Built Issue IPO |
Listing At | BSE, NSE |
Lot Allocation details
Application | Lots | Shares | Amount |
Retail (Min) | 1 | 26 | ₹14,820 |
Retail (Max) | 13 | 338 | ₹192,660 |
Small-HNI(Min) | 14 | 364 | ₹207,480 |
small-HNI(Max) | 67 | 1742 | ₹992,940 |
Large-HNI (Min) | 68 | 1768 | ₹1,007,760 |
Allotment Schedule
Basis of Allotment | Monday, April 8, 2024 |
Initiation of Refunds | Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
The credit of Shares to Demat | Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
Listing Date | Friday, April 12, 2024 |
Cut-off time for UPI mandate confirmation | 5 PM on April 5, 2024 |
IPO Reservation
Investor Category | Shares Offered |
QIB Shares Offered | Not More than 75% of the Net Issue |
Retail Shares Offered | Not more than 10% of the Net Issue |
NII (HNI) Shares Offered | Not more than 15% of the Net Issue |
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