Thoose who were quoting Mohammad Yunus of Bangladesh...against SKS....please read this....:
IPO is the Right Way to Reach Scale – Bandhan’s C.S. Ghosh on the SKS Microfinance’s IPO
As the SKS IPO has opened , Microfinance Insights brings to you reactions from various industry stakeholders, and their view of what it means for the future of microfinance.
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Founder and CEO of Bandhan, a Kolkata-based microfinance company, is unsure what the effects of the IPO move will be.
According to him, the sector will have to watch carefully how other MFIs respond over the next two to three months. But, on principle, he agrees with SKS’ move. “It’s a very good thing to get the money to reach the poor,” he says. “To meet capital needs and to reach more people, it must go the IPO route.” Ghosh doesn’t see another way to reach scale, without sizeable funding from the government toward the social sector.
Ghosh disagrees with Muhammad Yunus’ critique that to go public is to profit from the poor. The situation of Indian microfinance is unique, he says, and cannot be compared to Yunus’ experiences in Bangladesh.
“Sixty five percent of money has come from people themselves in the Grameen Bank. They are collecting deposits from their clients,” he explains. “That is enough to reach their small population. We cannot take a deposit from the people or clients. 90% of our funding relies on bank funding.”
I have keenly noted all of yours views with full respect.
Very humbly I would like to add :
Here is the list of those who are in favour of SKS :
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Many have discussed about apportioning of funds between SKS and Bajaj Corp. Let me present my views on that. People can spread the available money between these two issues evenly. SKS is a high risk, high return game. it is expected to be subscribed around 2 times in retail category and so one can get about 50 shares for a full application. If the premium is anywhere around 50 Rs, it will be 100 Rs return for retailers as there is 50 Rs discount. So for a full application one may get a gain of about 5000 Rs. This will increase with the increase in premium. If the listing is with a 50 Rs discount, then the retailers will not lose anything. On a worst case if it is going to list at a discount of 100 Rs, then the retailers will lose 2500 Rs for a full application, considering the discount. Bajaj Corp is not going list at a discount in any way. It is a no risk, low return game. But it will be heavily subscribed as it is a small issue, may be around 10 times in the retail category. In that case the retail investors may get about 50 shares. If the premium is going to be around 50 Rs, then it will earn one a return of 2500 Rs. So adding up both SKS and Bajaj Corp, if one spreads his money evenly between these two, one may get anywhere between Rs. Nil to Rs. 7500 for one application each in these two. If there are going to be multiple applications one can multiply the gains accordingly.
SKS Microfinance will open its initial public offering (IPO) of 16,791,579 equity shares for subscription on July 28. Jaypee Capital Services has recommended avoiding this issue, in their research report dated July 27, 2010.
The price band for the issue is at Rs 850-985 per share. Book will be remained open till July 30 for QIBs and August 2 for retail & non-institutional investors. Bids can be made for a minimum of 7 equity shares and in multiples of 7 equity shares thereafter.
The report says, "SKS is the largest MFI in India in terms of total value of loans outstanding, number of borrowers and number of branches. The total loans outstanding increased at a CAGR of 162.9% from Rs. 780.50 million as of March 31, 2006 to Rs. 14,175.23 million as of March 31, 2009. The IPO comprises of a fresh issue and offer for sale for augmenting the capital base to meet the future capital requirements. SKS has expertise in Microfinance and have been focused on lending to poor women in India. It has a superior asset quality. As of March 31, 2010 its net non performing assets, or NPAs, was Rs 48.03 million or 0.15% of loans outstanding. It has a scalable operating model and looks to increase its customer base and ticket size in future."
"At the lower price band, the stock is priced at 35x trailing FY10 EPS and 6.4x post issue book value. This, we believe is expensive, compared to Global MFIs which are trading in the range of 3.5-4.5x their book value. Though the company has a very robust business model, strong margin profile and return ratios and low NPA’s, we believe the issue is overpriced and suggest investing after the stock lists. We recommend avoid on the stock," according to report.
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Several analysts spoke to the Mint newspaper about SKS Microfinance’s IPO Valuation and this is what they had to say -
“At Rs850 a share, the implied valuation for the firm is 3.8 times post-issue book value (net worth) and 35 times the earnings of fiscal 2010, which appears quite expensive.”
-Pankaj Agarwal, analyst at the UK-based investment advisory firm Execution Noble.
Here are the links.that i had posted before people to study about the sector and SKS not to see who reccomended and who is mearchant banker..?...5vother brokers have also reccomended.......
Superstitions dont lead to investment decisions.....you have to look at company and not stupid things like who is mearchant banker and who reccomended?
for serious boarders....critics and supporters alike plz read this moneycontrol synopsis on SKS....
"YES ITS TRUE SKS = 40% AND BCORP = 60% ALLOCATION OF MY FUNDS.
U KNOW WHAT HAPPENS THAT IN STOCK MARKET SOME TIME U HAVE TO BE WITH CROWD NOT CONTRARION, I CANT BE THE SINGLE BULL IN SKS IF SO THEN U CAN FORSEE MY BAD POSITION."
No in stock market you should always be contrarion and not with crowd....so the crowd expects it to be overvalued...unethical.....etc......some people say kotak...some say other reasons...
jest look at long term fundamentals of co and sector ..GEM ....That what makes successful investment decisions.....
I think you weightage shouls be opposite...!!...Just my view.....you can do whatever u wish