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ICICI Prudential Life Insurance extends fall after listing below issue price

The stock slipped to Rs 297, down 11% against its issue price of Rs 334 per share on the NSE in intra-day trade.

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SI Reporter Mumbai
Last Updated : Sep 29 2016 | 12:51 PM IST
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has slipped to Rs 297, down 11% against its issue price of Rs 334 per share on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in intra-day after weak listing. LINK

The stock listed at Rs 330, 1.2% lower against its issue price. It hit an intra-day high of Rs 333.90 post its listing.

At 12:45 pm, the stock was trading at Rs 301, with 64.64 million shares changing hands on the counter so far.

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has raised Rs 6,057-crore through initial public offer (IPO), become the first insurer to list.

The company's public issue was oversubscribed 10.5 times. The quota set aside for qualified institutional buyers was subscribed 11.83 times while for the non-institutional investor category, it was 28.55 times. The retail portion was oversubscribed 1.42 times, the exchange data shows.

The insurer is a venture between banking major ICICI Bank and UK's Prudential Corporation Holdings. Singapore's Temasek and PremjiInvest are also the shareholders.

At the end of financial year 2016 (FY16), ICICI Prudential was the biggest private sector insurer in the Country having a market share of 11.3%. The company has 521 offices with around 10,663 employees and 121,016 advisors all over India as of FY16. ICICI Prudential Life’s total premium and net profit has risen at a CAGR of 8% and 5% in the past four years, respectively.

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First Published: Sep 29 2016 | 12:48 PM IST

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