56 IPOs done, 65 awaiting SEBI approval and a pipeline of 211 DRHPs already approved last fiscal. The 2025 version of the great Indian IPO rush is mindboggling. What started as a trickle, is slowly taking up humongous proportion. Literally every second day, you get to hear about a mega Rs 10,000 crore plus issue. International brokerage house, Jefferies says that the sharp market rebound from March lows has triggered an equity supply and this deluge is on expected lines.
One of the interesting aspects of the current rebound in he markets, is the it has “reignited equity issuance activity in last 2 months,” given the elevated valuations.
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The report elaborated on how the “pipeline is still large with potential disinvestments coming. The near-term equity supply pipeline also remains robust, with over 65 IPOs awaiting regulatory clearance, expected to hit the market in the coming months.”
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In FY25, 211 IPO DRHPs were filed with SEBI and FY26 has already seen 56 IPO filings in 3-months, indicating continued momentum. According to estimates by Jefferies, “a supply pipeline of $60-80 billion” is expected in the remaining 9 months of FY26.
What’s particularly striking is that the pipeline comprises of marquee IPOs in internet, capital markets, telecom and QIPs by financial sector among key fresh issues anticipated. Additionally, as highlighted in the fiscal note by Jefferies, “achieving the disinvestment target of Rs 47,000 crore for the FY26 is critical for the government.”
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According to Jefferies, “deal values are more than $17 billion over May and June, with deals in June higher than $10 billion.” The report stated that this $8 billion+ run-rate every month “is a tad higher than the peak we saw in H2CY24.” Just to remind our readers, the second half of 2024 also saw a deluge of promoter exits, PE action and active deployment of other fund raising instruments.
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So far the surge in equity supply, in the last two months,
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