India focused: IPO, special situations, Stylus Holdings

Himanshu Dugar

India focused: IPO, special situations

Stylus Holdings

Stylus Holdings is a buy-side equity research firm. We offer bottom-up investment ideas as well as provide on demand equity research and portfolio tracking. 
At Stylus, our focus is to identify market dislocations that can generate 20+% IRR with a reasonable margin of safety. As part of our research process, we do a deep dive into the fundamentals of the company, evaluate their competitive positioning and assess their valuation.
Our investment team is led by Himanshu Dugar. Himanshu is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA charter holder. He has 10+ years of active experience in the stock market with stints at CRISIL Research, a S&P Global copmany and Miras Investments, a single family office based in Dubai.

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Equity Capital Markets

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company / Equity Capital Markets

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company (ICICIAMC IN)

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company

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<li>Ipru AMC, the largest AMC with high active AUM share and 60+% of Equity AUM boasts of one of the best operating metrics in the industry.</li>
<li>The IPO is being priced in line with peers based on FY25 accounting PE (40x vs 40-44x), however, based on Core PE the relative valuations stands at 40x vs 48/52x</li>
<li>We are bullish on the industry/company from a long-term perspective, although near-term valuations may look fully priced in light of regulatory tightening of profit pool and intensifying competition.</li>
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Ipru AMC, the largest AMC with high active AUM share and 60+% of Equity AUM boasts of one of the best operating metrics in the industry.
The IPO is being priced in line with peers based on FY25 accounting PE (40x vs 40-44x), however, based on Core PE the relative valuations stands at 40x vs 48/52x
We are bullish on the industry/company from a long-term perspective, although near-term valuations may look fully priced in light of regulatory tightening of profit pool and intensifying competition.


ICICI Prudential AMC - Reasonably Priced for the Longer Term.

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Juniper Green Energy Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/juniper-green-energy-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45455:1" rel="noopener">Juniper Green Energy Ltd (1831458D IN)</a> is looking to raise around US$350m in its upcoming India IPO. </li>
<li>Juniper Green Energy Limited (JGEL) is an independent power producer (IPP) engaged in the development, construction, operation, and maintenance of utility-scale renewable energy projects.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at the firm’s past performance.</li>
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Juniper Green Energy Ltd (1831458D IN) is looking to raise around US$350m in its upcoming India IPO. 
Juniper Green Energy Limited (JGEL) is an independent power producer (IPP) engaged in the development, construction, operation, and maintenance of utility-scale renewable energy projects.
In this note, we look at the firm’s past performance.


Aequitas: Juniper Green Energy Pre-IPO - Execution-Led Growth but Risks Remain

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

Authum Investment & Infrastructure / Index Rebalance

Authum Investment & Infrastructure (AIIL IN)

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<li>With the review period now complete, there could be 15 changes for the NIFTY Midcap 150 Index at the March rebalance.</li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover is 9.8% resulting in a round-trip trade of INR 26.5bn (US$290m). With over US$43bn tracking the index actively, the impact on the stocks will be much larger.</li>
<li>Removing the newly listed stocks and upward/downward migrations, the remaining potential inclusions have outperformed the potential deletions over the last 6 months. Near-term performance has suffered.</li>
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With the review period now complete, there could be 15 changes for the NIFTY Midcap 150 Index at the March rebalance.
Estimated one-way turnover is 9.8% resulting in a round-trip trade of INR 26.5bn (US$290m). With over US$43bn tracking the index actively, the impact on the stocks will be much larger.
Removing the newly listed stocks and upward/downward migrations, the remaining potential inclusions have outperformed the potential deletions over the last 6 months. Near-term performance has suffered.


NIFTY MIDCAP150 Index Rebalance Preview: 15 Potential Changes in March

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<li>We forecast 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 11 stocks moving from LargeCap to MidCap, 3 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, and 15 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap.</li>
<li>From the new listings, 4 stocks are expected to be added to Large Cap, 8 stocks are expected to be added to Mid Cap, and multiple stocks to Small Cap.</li>
<li>SEBI has reclassified Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) as equity related instruments and REITs will be added to the AMFI classification from the upcoming review.</li>
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We forecast 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 11 stocks moving from LargeCap to MidCap, 3 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, and 15 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap.
From the new listings, 4 stocks are expected to be added to Large Cap, 8 stocks are expected to be added to Mid Cap, and multiple stocks to Small Cap.
SEBI has reclassified Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) as equity related instruments and REITs will be added to the AMFI classification from the upcoming review.


AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2025): New Listings and REIT Inclusion Drive Changes

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/icici-prudential-amc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45499:1" rel="noopener">ICICI Prudential AMC</a> raised around US$1.2bn in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>IPru AMC is an asset management company involved in managing mutual funds, providing portfolio management services, managing alternative investment funds, and providing advisory services to offshore clients.</li>
<li>We have looked at the past performance in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the RHP updates and valuations.</li>
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ICICI Prudential AMC raised around US$1.2bn in its upcoming India IPO.
IPru AMC is an asset management company involved in managing mutual funds, providing portfolio management services, managing alternative investment funds, and providing advisory services to offshore clients.
We have looked at the past performance in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the RHP updates and valuations.


ICICI Pru AMC IPO Trading - Last of the Big Listing Sees Big Demand, SEBI Announces TER Changes

India

Groww is a direct-to-customer digital investment platform offering a wide range of financial products and services, including stocks, direct mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), initial public offerings (IPOs), derivatives, bonds, and gold. The company also provides margin trading facilities and personal loans. Groww is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and was founded in 2018.

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ICICI Prudential AMC - Reasonably Priced for the Longer Term.

Ipru AMC is up 28% since listing and now trades at a 10-12% premium vs closest peers Nippon and HDFC AMC. After a flattish QoQ performance impacted...

Himanshu Dugar

Aequitas: Juniper Green Energy Pre-IPO - Execution-Led Growth but Risks Remain

Juniper Green Energy is looking to raise around US$350m in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we look at the firm’s past performance.

Akshat Shah

NIFTY MIDCAP150 Index Rebalance Preview: 15 Potential Changes in March

There could be 15 changes in March. Estimated one-way turnover is 9.8% and round-trip trade is INR 26.5bn. With over US$43bn tracking the index...

Brian Freitas

AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2025): New Listings and REIT Inclusion Drive Changes

36 stocks could see size reclassification in Jan. 12 new stocks could be added to Large and Mid-cap. REITs will be added to the AMFI classification...

Brian Freitas

ICICI Pru AMC IPO Trading - Last of the Big Listing Sees Big Demand, SEBI Announces TER Changes

ICICI Prudential AMC raised around US$1.2bn in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.

Sumeet Singh

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