Search service provider Justdial rose as much as 19.2 per cent in its stock market debut on Wednesday after the company raised about $165 million last month in the country's biggest listing so far this year.
Shares in Justdial ended at Rs 612.35 after gaining 15.54 per cent on the NSE after hitting a high of Rs 631.9, compared with their initial public offer price of Rs 530 a share, valuing the company at Rs 3,703 crore.
Despite the strong debut, investment bankers and analysts said Justdial's listing was unlikely to open up India's moribund initial public offering (IPO) market in the near term, given only a few medium-to-large sized issues are in the pipeline.
"Just Dial is a quality IPO and markets separate men from boys," said Deven Choksey, managing director of KR Choksey Securities in Mumbai.
"The secondary market needs to be extremely strong for IPOs to benefit. So unless it is a unique IPO, it wouldn't be successful."
Justdial's IPO, in which the company's founders and private equity investors including Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global sold some of their shares, was the biggest since Bharti Infratel Ltd's IPO of about $750 million in December last year.
Mumbai-based Justdial, which offers search for local businesses through Internet and mobile platforms, sold 17.5 million shares through the IPO, or 25 per cent of its total equity, which was subscribed 11.6 times.
The search service provider's IPO has attracted foreign banks, including Goldman Sachs and HSBC, as well as domestic institutional investors Birla Sunlife Trustee Co.
Citigroup and Morgan Stanley were the lead managers to the issue.
Copyright: Thomson Reuters 2013
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