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.

Equity Capital Markets

Dr Agarwal's Health Care Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/dr-agarwal-s-health-care-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43984:1" rel="noopener">Dr Agarwal's Health Care Ltd (8140044Z IN)</a> raised around US$350m in its India IPO in Jan 2025. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>Dr Agarwal’s Health Care is a healthcare/hospital chain in India providing eyecare services, including surgeries; consultations, diagnoses, non-surgical treatments; and sells opticals, contact lens, accessories and eyecare related pharmaceutical products.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.</li>
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Dr Agarwal's Health Care Ltd (8140044Z IN) raised around US$350m in its India IPO in Jan 2025. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.
Dr Agarwal’s Health Care is a healthcare/hospital chain in India providing eyecare services, including surgeries; consultations, diagnoses, non-surgical treatments; and sells opticals, contact lens, accessories and eyecare related pharmaceutical products.
In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.


Dr Agarwal’s Health Care IPO Lockup - US$725m Lockup Release; PE Investors May Look to Cash Out

Market & Forensics Analyst, Beat the Street

Nimish Maheshwari

Market & Forensics Analyst

Beat the Street

Beat The Street was founded by Nimish Maheshwari and Sudarshan Bhandari, both of whom are Chartered Accountants by Profession, known for their expert analysis in the fields of Business, Sectoral analysis, and Corporate governance.

With a strong social media presence of 45,000+ Subscribers across various platforms, they are considered trusted voices in the industry. Their insights and analysis have been featured in some of India’s most prominent publications, including the Economic Times, Dalal Street Investment Journal, The Morning Context, and The Ken.

Their analysis on Bankrupt & Insolvent companies has been instrumental in saving investors from significant losses. They have a keen eye for identifying red flags and has identified exclusive redflags earlier in Vedanta, Nykaa, Dhani Services, Adani and many more.

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Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Patanjali Ayurved (holding company of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/patanjali-foods-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12707:1" rel="noopener">Patanjali Foods (PATANJAL IN)</a>) acquired a 73.555% majority stake in Magma General Insurance for approximately INR 4,500 crore.</li>
<li>Patanjali seeks to diversify, leveraging its brand and distribution network to tap India's underpenetrated insurance market, aligning with IRDAI's "Insurance for All by 2047" vision.</li>
<li>Magma General brings established operations, a 26% GWP CAGR, and a network of 18,000 agents, providing an immediate platform for market expansion and growth.</li>
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Patanjali Ayurved (holding company of Patanjali Foods (PATANJAL IN)) acquired a 73.555% majority stake in Magma General Insurance for approximately INR 4,500 crore.
Patanjali seeks to diversify, leveraging its brand and distribution network to tap India's underpenetrated insurance market, aligning with IRDAI's "Insurance for All by 2047" vision.
Magma General brings established operations, a 26% GWP CAGR, and a network of 18,000 agents, providing an immediate platform for market expansion and growth.


Can Patanjali’s Foray Into the Underpenetrated Insurance Market Drive Growth Via This Acquisition?

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Event-Driven

Go Digit General Insurance / Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/go-digit-general-insurance-l" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36266:1" rel="noopener">Go Digit General Insurance</a> raised US$315m in its India IPO in May 2024, via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares. Its IPO lockup is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>Go Digit General Insurance is a digital full stack insurance company, offering motor insurance, health insurance, travel insurance, property insurance, marine insurance, liability insurance and other insurance products.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.</li>
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Go Digit General Insurance raised US$315m in its India IPO in May 2024, via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares. Its IPO lockup is set to expire soon.
Go Digit General Insurance is a digital full stack insurance company, offering motor insurance, health insurance, travel insurance, property insurance, marine insurance, liability insurance and other insurance products.
In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.


Go Digit IPO Lockup - Promoters and Investors Could Look to Sell in the US$2.1bn Release

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Emkay Global Financial Services Limited

Emkay

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Emkay Global Financial Services Limited

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Go Digit General Insurance / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>We recently met Kamesh Goyal (Founder and Chairman), Jasleen Kohli (CEO), and Ravi Khetan (CFO) of Go Digit for an update on the company’s strategy and recent developments in the general insurance sector.</li><li>KTAs: 1) Profitable growth remains central to the company’s strategy.</li><li>2) The company has adopted an agile and opportunity-based approach to growth, focusing on the not-sooverly competitive segments.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

We recently met Kamesh Goyal (Founder and Chairman), Jasleen Kohli (CEO), and Ravi Khetan (CFO) of Go Digit for an update on the company’s strategy and recent developments in the general insurance sector.KTAs: 1) Profitable growth remains central to the company’s strategy.2) The company has adopted an agile and opportunity-based approach to growth, focusing on the not-sooverly competitive segments.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Go Digit - Corner Office View: Agile, Opportunity-Based Strategy to Drive Growth

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

Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited / Event-Driven

Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited

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<li>We see 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap and vice versa, 17 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, 19 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap and 2 new additions to MidCap.</li>
<li>The expected migrations from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed the other potential migrations with all stocks moving higher over the last six months.</li>
<li>Momentum on the upward migrations could sustain as active managers reposition their portfolios. Some stocks will have passive flows over the next few months.</li>
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We see 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap and vice versa, 17 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, 19 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap and 2 new additions to MidCap.
The expected migrations from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed the other potential migrations with all stocks moving higher over the last six months.
Momentum on the upward migrations could sustain as active managers reposition their portfolios. Some stocks will have passive flows over the next few months.


AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (June 2024): Potential Changes as Momentum Recovers

India

Go Digit General Insurance Limited, doing business as Digit, operates as a digital insurance company. The Company enables consumers to buy vehicle, travel, property, flight delay, health, mobile, holiday home, and shop insurance. Digit serves customers in India.

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Go Digit General Insurance (1643133D IN)

Dr Agarwal’s Health Care IPO Lockup - US$725m Lockup Release; PE Investors May Look to Cash Out

Dr Agarwal’s Health Care (DAH) raised around US$350m in its India IPO in Jan 2025. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.

Akshat Shah

Can Patanjali’s Foray Into the Underpenetrated Insurance Market Drive Growth Via This Acquisition?

Patanjali Ayurved acquires majority stake in Magma General Insurance to tap into India's underpenetrated insurance market and align with IRDAI's...

Nimish Maheshwari

Go Digit IPO Lockup - Promoters and Investors Could Look to Sell in the US$2.1bn Release

Go Digit General Insurance raised US$315m in its India IPO in May 2024, via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares. Its IPO lockup is set to...

Sumeet Singh

Go Digit - Corner Office View: Agile, Opportunity-Based Strategy to Drive Growth

We recently met Kamesh Goyal (Founder and Chairman), Jasleen Kohli (CEO), and Ravi Khetan (CFO) of Go Digit for an update on the company’s strategy

Emkay

AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (June 2024): Potential Changes as Momentum Recovers

We see 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap and vice versa, 17 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, 19 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap and 2 new adds...

Brian Freitas

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Dr Agarwal’s Health Care IPO Lockup - US$725m Lockup Release; PE Investors May Look to Cash Out

Dr Agarwal’s Health Care (DAH) raised around US$350m in its India IPO in Jan 2025. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.

Akshat Shah

Can Patanjali’s Foray Into the Underpenetrated Insurance Market Drive Growth Via This Acquisition?

​Patanjali Ayurved acquires majority stake in Magma General Insurance to tap into India's underpenetrated insurance market and align with IRDAI's...

Nimish Maheshwari

Go Digit IPO Lockup - Promoters and Investors Could Look to Sell in the US$2.1bn Release

Go Digit General Insurance raised US$315m in its India IPO in May 2024, via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares. Its IPO lockup is set to...

Sumeet Singh

Go Digit - Corner Office View: Agile, Opportunity-Based Strategy to Drive Growth

We recently met Kamesh Goyal (Founder and Chairman), Jasleen Kohli (CEO), and Ravi Khetan (CFO) of Go Digit for an update on the company’s strategy

Emkay

AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (June 2024): Potential Changes as Momentum Recovers

We see 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap and vice versa, 17 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, 19 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap and 2 new adds...

Brian Freitas

Patanjali Ayurved acquires majority stake in Magma General Insurance to tap into India's underpenetrated insurance market and align with IRDAI's...