Shares of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. gained 3.57% to Rs 411.30 apiece after it received a revised bid from Worldone for its thermal power arm.
In April, JSPL divested 96.42% in JPL to Worldone for Rs 3,015 crore. However, after feedback from several investors and shareholders who pointed out that the deal value is lower than expected, JSPL asked for revised bids.
“Worldone will buy out all the equity shares and redeemable preference shares of JPL held by JSPL for a total consideration of approximately Rs 7,401 crore,” said the company in a statement.
Worldone Pvt is owned by the JSPL promoter group, managing and holding investments across various listed and unlisted companies.
Out of the 25 analysts tracking the company, 20 maintained ‘buy’, 4 maintained ‘hold’ and 1 analyst maintained ‘sell’ recommendation. The overall consensus price of analysts tracked by Bloomberg hinted at an upside of 28.9%. Shares of JSPL added 52.14% in 2021 so far as compared to 67.29% gains for S&P BSE Metal Index