Headquartered in New Delhi, One97 is more than 4,500 people strong with regional offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata with global presence in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia. In addition, it is backed by marquee investors like Alibaba Group, Ant Financial (AliPay), SAIF Partners, Mediatek, Sapphire Venture and Silicon Valley Bank. paytm stock symbol is one97 communications.
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Paytm shares are oscillating around its life-time lows that has attracted bottom-fishing interest by some foreign institutional investors. Bank of America (BofA) Securities and Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore and Societe Generale are among the FIIs who have bought shares in the company in recent bulk deals.
As per the NSE bulk deals, Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore has bought 60,03,468 Paytm shares whereas BofA Securities and Societe Generale bought 50,26,428 and 70,85,227 Paytm shares respectively. However, SVF India Holdings (Cayman) sold out its 2,93,50,000 Paytm shares. All these buying and selling of Paytm shares were executed through bulk deal on 17th November 2022.
A share buyback, which is also known as share repurchase, is a corporate action to buy back its own outstanding shares from its existing shareholders usually at a premium to the prevailing market price. It can be an alternative tax-efficient way to return money to shareholders. Share buybacks reduce the number of shares in circulation, which can increase the share value and the earnings per share (EPS).
Morgan Stanley Asia (Singapore) Pte - ODI acquired 54.95 lakh shares in the Paytm operator and hedge fund Ghisallo Master Fund LP bought 49.8 lakh shares in the company via open market transactions, as per the bulk deals data available on exchanges.
Vikasa India EIF I Fund-Incube Global Opportunities offloaded the entire 3.43 lakh shares at an average price of Rs 89.25 per share, and Rajasthan Global Securities sold 3.68 lakh shares at an average price of Rs 85 per share.
Saint Capital Fund sold 1.78 lakh shares in Sah Polymers at an average price of Rs 89.25 per share, Maven India Fund offloaded 1.78 lakh shares at an average price of Rs 89.12 per share, and Elara India Opportunities Fund sold 9.1 lakh shares at an average price of Rs 86.14 per share.
One 97 Communications Ltd shares were trading 9.80 points lower at Rs 529.70. Interestingly, the shares touched a 52-week high of Rs 1,553.75 on the same day the previous year. It has fallen more than 64% in the past year and over 25% in the last three months. At the current market price, it has a total market capitalization of Rs 34,590.04 crore. It touched an intraday low of Rs 525.60 and a high of Rs 548.95.
The sale is the latest in a series of divestments that SoftBank has made this year.
SoftBank's flagship Vision Fund unit reported nearly $50 billion in losses in just six months. The shares were bought by hedge funds such as Millennium Capital, Segantii Capital Management, and Ghisallo Capital Management. Norges Bank, Norway's central bank too bought the Paytm shares, news agency Reuters reported.
As per SEBI, a one-year lock-in period is necessary for pre-IPO investors, post listing of the shares on the bourses. This expired on Nov. 15, releasing approximately 86% of the company's shares for trading.
An initial public offering (IPO) lock-in period is a time set by the underwriter, which prevents early investors and insiders from liquidating their pre-IPO stocks for a certain time post listing on bourses. As per SEBI, a one-year lock-in period is necessary for pre-IPO investors, post listing of the shares on the bourses. If an investor breaches this rule, they may have to pay a certain fee to the underwriter, which is usually equal to 2% of the value of the shares sold.
In the last one year, Paytm shares have delivered a negative return of 61% to its shareholders, while it rebounded over 2% in the past six months. In the calendar year 2022, the largecap stock has fallen 55%, while it fell over 10% in a month.
Paytm shares slipped 10.35% to Rs 1,402 against previous close of Rs 1,564.15 on BSE. Market cap of the firm which remained above the Rs 1 lakh crore mark on the listing day, fell to Rs 93,490 crore in early trade today.
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