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Motilal Oswal Financial surges on heavy volumes

The stock has rallied 15% to Rs 205 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

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SI Reporter Mumbai
Last Updated : Jun 09 2014 | 1:44 PM IST
Motilal Oswal Financial Services has surged 15% to Rs 205 on back of heavy volumes after the company announced closure of buyback offer.

The company has bought back 7.07 million equity shares of Re 1 each fully paid (i.e. 94.3% of the maximum buyback offer shares) up to June 6, 2014, proposed under the buyback offer, Motilal Oswal Financial Services said in a statement.

Consequent to the aforesaid buyback, the buyback is scheduled to close after trading hours on June 9, 2014, it added.

Mumbai-based broking firm had proposed to buyback a maximum 7.5 million shares at a price not exceeding Rs 90 per share in cash from open market through the stock exchange mechanism.

The stock opened at Rs 185 and touched a 52-week high of Rs 210 on BSE. As many as a combined around 80,000 shares already changed hands on the counter against an average sub 40,000 shares that were traded daily in past two weeks on BSE and NSE.
 

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First Published: Jun 09 2014 | 1:42 PM IST

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