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  <li>Varroc Engineering is strategically pivoting towards high-growth areas, particularly Electric Vehicle (EV) components, which now represent a significant and rapidly growing portion of revenue, accounting for 15.8% in Q1FY27.</li>
  <li>The company maintains a dominant position in the Indian 2-wheeler and 3-wheeler component market, with a significant revenue concentration from key clients like Bajaj Auto, providing a stable demand base.</li>
  <li>After divesting its four-wheeler lighting business in Europe and the Americas, Varroc has deleveraged its balance sheet and sharpened its focus on the core Indian market and technology-driven segments like electronics and e-mobility.</li>
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  Varroc Engineering is strategically pivoting towards high-growth areas, particularly Electric Vehicle (EV) components, which now represent a significant and rapidly growing portion of revenue, accounting for 15.8% in Q1FY27.
  The company maintains a dominant position in the Indian 2-wheeler and 3-wheeler component market, with a significant revenue concentration from key clients like Bajaj Auto, providing a stable demand base.
  After divesting its four-wheeler lighting business in Europe and the Americas, Varroc has deleveraged its balance sheet and sharpened its focus on the core Indian market and technology-driven segments like electronics and e-mobility.
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Primer: Varroc Engineering Ltd (VARROC IN) - Aug 2026

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Tina Banerjee

Equity Capital Markets

Hero Motors Limited / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Hero Motors is launching India IPO to raise nearly INR 10B. Hero is an automotive technology company engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and supplying highly engineered powertrain solutions.</li>
<li>The company intends to use the proceeds for repayment/ prepayment of certain outstanding borrowings, for capacity expansion and for funding inorganic growth through unidentified acquisitions, and general corporate purposes.</li>
<li>Hero Motors has ample operational capabilities, diversified product offerings, strong market presence alongside a positive demand outlook, but the issue seems overpriced given the fundamentals.</li>
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Hero Motors is launching India IPO to raise nearly INR 10B. Hero is an automotive technology company engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and supplying highly engineered powertrain solutions.
The company intends to use the proceeds for repayment/ prepayment of certain outstanding borrowings, for capacity expansion and for funding inorganic growth through unidentified acquisitions, and general corporate purposes.
Hero Motors has ample operational capabilities, diversified product offerings, strong market presence alongside a positive demand outlook, but the issue seems overpriced given the fundamentals.


Hero Motors IPO: Not Enough Grease For Investors To Gear Up and Power Ahead

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, 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.

<div><p>Sona Comstar (Sona) raised around US$761m in its Indian IPO. The company is backed by Blackstone, which held a 66.2% stake prior to listing.</p></div><div><p>Sona is an automotive technology company, designing, manufacturing and supplying highly engineered, mission critical automotive systems and components to automotive OEMs across US, Europe, India and China, for both electrified and non-electrified powertrain segments.</p></div><div></div><div>
<p>We have covered the deal background in our earlier notes:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/sona-comstar-pre-ipo-inconsistent-growth-patchy-disclosures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sona Comstar Pre-IPO - Inconsistent growth, patchy disclosures </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/sona-comstar-has-its-positives-but-we-remain-unconvinced" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sona Comstar - Has Its Positives, but We Remain Unconvinced</a></li>
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</div><div><p>In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</p></div>

Sona Comstar (Sona) raised around US$761m in its Indian IPO. The company is backed by Blackstone, which held a 66.2% stake prior to listing.Sona is an automotive technology company, designing, manufacturing and supplying highly engineered, mission critical automotive systems and components to automotive OEMs across US, Europe, India and China, for both electrified and non-electrified powertrain segments.
We have covered the deal background in our earlier notes:

Sona Comstar Pre-IPO - Inconsistent growth, patchy disclosures 
Sona Comstar - Has Its Positives, but We Remain Unconvinced

In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.

Sona Comstar IPO Trading - Strong Anchors but Tepid Demand

<p>Sona Comstar (Sona) aims to raise around US$761m in its Indian IPO. The company is backed by Blackstone, which held a 66.2% stake prior to listing.</p><p>Sona is an automotive technology company, designing, manufacturing and supplying highly engineered, mission critical automotive systems and components to automotive OEMs across US, Europe, India and China, for both electrified and non-electrified powertrain segments.</p><p>Sona delivered a steady performance in 2019 with revenue up 16.6% and PAT up 24.1%. However, its revenue fell by 14.5% in FY20, although it still managed to grow its PAT by 4%. It registered a strong bounce bank in FY21 with 28.4% revenue growth but PAT was flat.</p><p>While the company enjoys a long customer relationship, its largest customers haven’t consistently grown their contribution to revenue over the past few years.</p><p>We have covered the deal background in our earlier note, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/sona-comstar-pre-ipo-inconsistent-growth-patchy-disclosures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sona Comstar Pre-IPO - Inconsistent growth, patchy disclosures. </a></p><p>In this note, we will talk about the recent updates and run the deal through our ECM framework.</p>

Sona Comstar (Sona) aims to raise around US$761m in its Indian IPO. The company is backed by Blackstone, which held a 66.2% stake prior to listing.Sona is an automotive technology company, designing, manufacturing and supplying highly engineered, mission critical automotive systems and components to automotive OEMs across US, Europe, India and China, for both electrified and non-electrified powertrain segments.Sona delivered a steady performance in 2019 with revenue up 16.6% and PAT up 24.1%. However, its revenue fell by 14.5% in FY20, although it still managed to grow its PAT by 4%. It registered a strong bounce bank in FY21 with 28.4% revenue growth but PAT was flat.While the company enjoys a long customer relationship, its largest customers haven’t consistently grown their contribution to revenue over the past few years.We have covered the deal background in our earlier note, Sona Comstar Pre-IPO - Inconsistent growth, patchy disclosures. In this note, we will talk about the recent updates and run the deal through our ECM framework.

Sona Comstar - Has Its Positives, but We Remain Unconvinced

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sona-blw-precision-forgings" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32993:1" rel="noopener">Sona BLW Precision Forgings (SPF IN)</a>/Sona Comstar is one of India’s leading auto technology companies that designs, manufactures, and supplies highly engineered, mission-critical systems and components. Sona Comstar is looking to raise Rs60 billion ($820 million) through an IPO in India as soon as April, according to press reports. The offer comprises a primary raise of Rs3 billion ($41 million) and a secondary raise of Rs57 billion ($777 million). The selling shareholder is <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/blackstone-group-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27166:1" rel="noopener">Blackstone Group LP (BX US)</a>.  </p><div class="content-highlight"><p>Sona Comstar’s broad product portfolio which spans both conventional and electrified powertrains position it to gain from high growth auto industry trends (rising penetration of mild hybrids/full hybrids and battery electric vehicles) as well as various Government of India initiatives to spur the growth of the auto industry (such as recently announced Rs570 billion production-linked incentive scheme). Overall, we think that Sona Comstar is an attractive and alternative play on the electric vehicle market.</p></div>

Sona BLW Precision Forgings (SPF IN)/Sona Comstar is one of India’s leading auto technology companies that designs, manufactures, and supplies highly engineered, mission-critical systems and components. Sona Comstar is looking to raise Rs60 billion ($820 million) through an IPO in India as soon as April, according to press reports. The offer comprises a primary raise of Rs3 billion ($41 million) and a secondary raise of Rs57 billion ($777 million). The selling shareholder is Blackstone Group LP (BX US).  Sona Comstar’s broad product portfolio which spans both conventional and electrified powertrains position it to gain from high growth auto industry trends (rising penetration of mild hybrids/full hybrids and battery electric vehicles) as well as various Government of India initiatives to spur the growth of the auto industry (such as recently announced Rs570 billion production-linked incentive scheme). Overall, we think that Sona Comstar is an attractive and alternative play on the electric vehicle market.

Sona Comstar IPO Initiation: Shifting Gears

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Varroc Engineering Limited is a global auto technology company that designs, develops, and manufactures a wide range of electrical, electronics, lighting, polymer, metallic, and advanced safety solutions. It supplies components and subassemblies for automobiles, including interiors trim, instrument panels, exterior parts, door trims, steering spindles, and assemblies. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

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Varroc Engineering (VARROC IN)

Primer: Varroc Engineering Ltd (VARROC IN) - Aug 2026

Varroc Engineering is strategically pivoting towards high-growth areas, particularly Electric Vehicle (EV) components, which now represent a...

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Hero Motors IPO: Not Enough Grease For Investors To Gear Up and Power Ahead

Hero Motors is launching India IPO to raise nearly INR 10B for for debt repayment, capacity expansion and acquisition. Despite the positives, the...

Tina Banerjee

Sona Comstar IPO Trading - Strong Anchors but Tepid Demand

Sona Comstar (Sona) raised around US$761m in its Indian IPO. The company is backed by Blackstone, which held a 66.2% stake prior to listing.

Sumeet Singh

Sona Comstar - Has Its Positives, but We Remain Unconvinced

Sona Comstar aims to raise around US$761m in its Indian IPO. The company is backed by Blackstone, which held a 66.2% stake prior to listing.

Sumeet Singh

Sona Comstar IPO Initiation: Shifting Gears

Sona Comstar is looking to raise Rs60 bn ($820 m) through an IPO in India. Overall, we think that Sona Comstar is an attractive and alternative...

Arun George

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