Nepal Agro Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd (NALBSL) has successfully concluded its initial public offering (IPO) on Tuesday morning after 09:00 AM today, 30th April 2019 (17th Baishakh 2076) in the premises of Nepal SBI Merchant Banking Ltd., its issue manager. The microfinance company had floated 161,778 unit ordinary shares worth Rs 16.18 million (Rs 1.618 crores) at a face value of Rs 100 each to the general public, for four working days, starting from Sunday 21th April 2019 (8th Baishakh 2076) to Wednesday 24th April 2019 (11th Baishakh 2076) just a week ago last month.
The issue had received 315,630 applications for 6,402,330 unit shares with an overwhelming 42.24 times oversubscription, of which 705 applications for 14,200 unit shares were invalid due to errors and of the remaining 314,925 valid applications for 6,388,925 unit shares, only 15,120 (4.8%) lucky ones were allotted 10 unit shares each by lottery on pro rata basis, thus leaving a larger of 299,805 (95.2%) applications empty handed.