Mountain Hydro Nepal Ltd. (MHNL) has successfully concluded its initial public offering (IPO) on Sunday morning at 10:00 AM today, 17th March 2019 (3rd Chaitra 2075) in the head office at Naxal, Kathmandu. The company had floated 1,816,110 unit shares (including 566, 110 unit shares unsubscribed by the locals) worth Rs 181.611 million (Rs 18.1611 lakhs) at a face value of Rs 100 each to the general public, for four working days, starting from Thursday 7th March 2019 (23rd Falgun 2075) to Tuesday 12th March 2019 (28th Falgun 2075) just over a week ago.
According to Siddhartha Capital Ltd., its issue manager, the issue had received 50,954 applications for 3,394,810 unit shares with 1.92 times oversubscription, of which 16 applications for 1,540 unit shares were invalid due to errors and of the remaining 50,938 valid applicants, 26,973 applications (52.95%) were allotted 30 unit shares each and the other 9,58,600 applications were allotted 40 unit shares each on pro rata basis so that 23,965 (47.05%) of these applications have been lucky enough to be allotted with an additional 10 unit through the lottery system, thus leaving none empty handed.
