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Merchant Banking
MERCHANT BANKING
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• Significance of an IPO.
• It brings in large capital.
• It creates new ownership
• It creates Market capitalisation for the firm and attatch a
value to it.
• It provide opportunity for performance evaluation of firm
• It brings additional cost of compliance & regulation
• It checks management decisions.
Pre Issue decision making
1) Strategic perspective
2) Financial perspective
3) Merchant banking perspective
Strategic perspective
• Long term benefits of listing
• Does it help you to achieve strategic &
financial goals??
• Does your business model need listing??
Financial perspective
• Fund requirement
• Are there other cheaper alternatives??
• Capital structuring
• Impact on key financial ratios.
Merchant banking perspective
• Timing
• Issue pricing
• Issue structuring
Timing
• Bull phase
• High business confidence
• Investor sentiments
• Market conditions
Pricing
Generally MB use following method.
• Price to earning ratio(P/E Ratio)
• Price to book value ratio(M/B ratio)
Pricing
P/E ratio.
The firm’s preceding 3 years average EPS
is taken.
The average P/E multiple for the industry is
taken.
2 approaches are adopted
a) Conservative pricing
b) Aggressive pricing
Pricing- Example
FY 05-06 06-07 07-08
EPS 7 5 3
AVG EPS = 5
Generally we take wt. average. Assuming wt. as(0.2, 0.3,0.5)
Then EPS = (7*.2)+(5*0.3)+(3*0.5)= 6.5
Pricing
P/E Highest Lowest Average
multiple for
the Industry
For Yr 3 30 10 15
Pricing
• A) Conservative pricing- 11 * 6.5 = 71.5