India Inc raises Rs 1.4-lakh crore via equities in 2017

Fundraising through the equity route hit an all-time high, touching the Rs 1.4-lakh crore mark during the current calendar year (CY17). In all, companies raised a record Rs 1,40,073 crore in the ten-and-a-half months of CY17 (January – November 14, 2017) through various equity instruments. 
 

This includes initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on offers (FPOs), offer for sale (OFS), rights issues, and institutional placement programmes (IPPs), including qualified institutional placements (QIP).

The amount is more than double when compared with the entire previous calendar year (CY16), when companies raised Rs 46,733 crore. Earlier in CY10, they had raised Rs 1,04,462 crore (or