MARKETS & IPO
Info Edge Had Sixteen Years To…
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Info Edge Had Sixteen Years To Find A Successor And Picked Its Founder
Oberoi grew market capitalisation from ₹2,500 crore to nearly ₹80,000 crore. The board's answer to replacing him was the person who hired him.
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MARKETS & IPO
Amazon Burned $42 Billion Of Cash…
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Amazon Burned $42 Billion Of Cash And Microsoft Borrowed $25 Billion In The Same Week
Microsoft's finance chief said on Wednesday it had not tapped the bond market. On Thursday it priced its first deal since 2017.
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STARTUPS
Jio's First Day Pop Was Worth…
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Jio's First Day Pop Was Worth About ₹8,100 Crore, And It Went To The Buyers
The issue raised ₹30,213 crore. By the close those same shares were worth about ₹38,300 crore.
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MARKETS & IPO
Nvidia Is Guaranteeing The Revenue Of…
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Nvidia Is Guaranteeing The Revenue Of The Companies That Buy Its Chips
Nvidia has committed to buy CoreWeave's compute if nobody else will. The market is now pricing the chance it has to.
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MANUFACTURING
Zetwerk's Backers Took Out ₹1,215 Crore,…
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Zetwerk's Backers Took Out ₹1,215 Crore, And The Stock Broke Its Issue Price In Forty Minutes
Institutions bought it at 4.7 times. The people who had owned it longest sold about ₹1,215 crore.
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STARTUPS
Jio's Retail Quota Drew About ₹26,000…
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Jio's Retail Quota Drew About ₹26,000 Crore And Still Only Covered 2.72 Times
Institutions bid 70.55 times. Retail bid 2.72 times, which on a quota this large is close to ₹26,000 crore.
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MARKETS & IPO
Barclays Says AI Is Costing 5,000…
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Barclays Says AI Is Costing 5,000 Jobs, And Developers Are On The List
Sixty per cent of the cuts are support functions. The bank specifically named developers, and a fifth of the total had already happened.
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MARKETS & IPO
Myntra Spent ₹2,326 Crore On Advertising…
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Myntra Spent ₹2,326 Crore On Advertising And Earned ₹1,236 Crore Selling It
Revenue fell 13.5 per cent because logistics collections halved. The money did not disappear so much as move upstairs.
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MARKETS & IPO
Eternal Spent ₹28 Crore More Than…
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Eternal Spent ₹28 Crore More Than It Earned, And Still Reported A Profit
Revenue was ₹24,138 crore. Expenditure was ₹24,166 crore. The ₹125 crore profit came from elsewhere.
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STARTUPS
Jio Drew ₹2.5 Lakh Crore Of…
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Jio Drew ₹2.5 Lakh Crore Of Anchor Bids For ₹8,110 Crore Of Stock
Anchors bid thirty times what was on offer. The band was still set below what the market had been told to expect.
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MARKETS & IPO
Zetwerk Closed 3.1 Times Subscribed Because…
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Zetwerk Closed 3.1 Times Subscribed Because Institutions Showed Up And Retail Never Did
Institutions bid 4.7 times. Retail stopped at 0.77. The grey market marked the issue down 90 per cent while the book was being built.
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MARKETS & IPO
Flipkart's Logistics Revenue Rose 2.4 Times…
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Flipkart's Logistics Revenue Rose 2.4 Times While Its Marketplace Commissions Fell 44 Per Cent
Logistics revenue rose 2.4 times as marketplace commissions fell 44 per cent. A third of the reported loss was non-cash ESOP charges.
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STARTUPS
Urban Company Loses ₹279 On An…
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Urban Company Loses ₹279 On An Order Worth ₹114, And Is Raising ₹2,500 Crore To Keep Going
Loss per order fell 19 per cent. Order value fell 17 per cent. The board approved a ₹2,500 crore raise the same day.
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MARKETS & IPO
CoreWeave's Bonds Are Being Priced Like…
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CoreWeave's Bonds Are Being Priced Like Distressed Debt While Its Backlog Says Otherwise
A 9.625 per cent coupon trading at a 15 per cent yield is the credit market disagreeing with the equity market. Oracle, Nebius and Dell fell with it.
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MARKETS & IPO
Zetwerk's Book Is At 0.23 Times…
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Zetwerk's Book Is At 0.23 Times On Day One, And Retail Is The Number That Reads
Retail took 0.23 times a quota that is only a tenth of the issue. The book closes on 19 October, two days before Jio opens.
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SAAS & TECH
Zetwerk's IPO Prices It At About…
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Zetwerk's IPO Prices It At About 1.6 Times Revenue, Not A Platform Multiple
Against FY26 revenue of ₹15,913 crore that is roughly 1.6 times. Schneider just paid 8.7 times for PTC.
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SAAS & TECH
IonQ Is Buying Its Way Into…
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IonQ Is Buying Its Way Into Cybersecurity, And Paying In Its Own Shares
Nearly $4 billion of acquisitions in under two years, almost all paid in shares. The strategy works while the currency holds.
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MARKETS & IPO
Microsoft Will Run Its Own AI…
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Microsoft Will Run Its Own AI On Its Own Chips From 2027
Microsoft claims 40 per cent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. The comparison it declines to name is Nvidia.
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SAAS & TECH
Zetwerk's Existing Shareholders Want To Sell…
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Zetwerk's Existing Shareholders Want To Sell Half As Much Again As They Did In August
The fresh issue went up by ₹230 crore. The shares existing holders want to sell went up by nearly five crore.
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SAAS & TECH
Firmus Wanted Three Times Its August…
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Firmus Wanted Three Times Its August Valuation And The Market Said No
In August investors valued Firmus above $10.5 billion. The IPO asked for $30.6 billion, and the market declined.
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MARKETS & IPO
The US Takes 97% Of India's…
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The US Takes 97% Of India's Solar Module Exports, And Delhi Is Looking For A Plan B
A 126 per cent duty is a price problem. Export credit solves financing problems, which is not the same thing.
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SAAS & TECH
Jio's IPO Is Reported At ₹10.3…
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Jio's IPO Is Reported At ₹10.3 Lakh Crore, Well Below What The Market Was Told To Expect
Earlier talk put Jio between $130 billion and $170 billion. The reported band lands at about $107 billion, and the gap is the story.
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SAAS & TECH
SpaceX Bought Spectrum And Verizon Had…
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SpaceX Bought Spectrum And Verizon Had Its Worst Day Since 2002
Tower company shares rose on the same news. That tells you what the market thinks SpaceX is actually building.
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MARKETS & IPO
TCS Is Paying ₹1 Lakh For…
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TCS Is Paying ₹1 Lakh For A Best Buy Entity That Turned Over ₹294 Crore
A captive centre bills its parent at cost. It has no customers of its own, so on a standalone basis it is worth almost exactly what TCS is paying.
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MARKETS & IPO
OpenAI's Revenue Was A Third Smaller…
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OpenAI's Revenue Was A Third Smaller Than Reported, And The Whole AI Chain Fell
Nobody lost a customer. The market simply discovered it had been pricing a supply chain off a number that included other companies' revenue.
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MARKETS & IPO
Schneider Electric Is Paying $22.6 Billion…
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Schneider Electric Is Paying $22.6 Billion For PTC, And Its Own Shares Fell 8%
The seller's shares rose 33 per cent, the buyer's fell 8. Jefferies called it a decade-low valuation that could still weigh on Schneider afterwards.
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MARKETS & IPO
Bhavish Aggarwal Has Pledged 4.32% Of…
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Bhavish Aggarwal Has Pledged 4.32% Of Ola Electric To Fund His Rights Issue Subscription
In December he sold ₹324 crore of shares specifically to clear a promoter loan and release every pledge. Ten months later the pledge is back.
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MARKETS & IPO
Paramount Has Closed Its $110 Billion…
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Paramount Has Closed Its $110 Billion Warner Bros Merger To Form Skydance
The stated case is that a studio must become a technology company. The price already assumes the savings arrive.
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E-COMMERCE
AceVector Listed 11.5% Below Its IPO…
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AceVector Listed 11.5% Below Its IPO Price After Being Five Times Subscribed
Institutions bid 3.42 times, non-institutional investors 8.53. When the fastest money leads the book, there is nobody left to buy on day one.
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MARKETS & IPO
Micron Has Already Sold Most Of…
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Micron Has Already Sold Most Of Next Year's Memory And Expects Shortages Into 2028
HBM takes roughly three times the wafer capacity per bit of ordinary DRAM. Making more of it is why your laptop costs more.
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MARKETS & IPO
Only A Quarter Of AI's $4.7…
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Only A Quarter Of AI's $4.7 Trillion Prize Comes From Productivity
Published a month ago and worth revisiting: the cluster Bain expects to be hollowed out is the one Indian IT services occupies.
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MARKETS & IPO
Kuku's Revenue Rose Sixfold To ₹1,484…
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Kuku's Revenue Rose Sixfold To ₹1,484 Crore, And It Spent ₹1,105 Crore On Marketing
Marketing was nearly four times the prior year, and content cost under ₹200 crore. Making the shows is the cheap part.
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E-COMMERCE
AceVector's IPO Closed 5.07 Times Subscribed,…
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AceVector's IPO Closed 5.07 Times Subscribed, A Day After Moneyview Closed At 102
Non-institutional investors bid 8.53 times, institutions 3.42. A book weighted that way is chasing a listing gain rather than taking a position.
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MARKETS & IPO
Ola Electric Will Raise Up To…
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Ola Electric Will Raise Up To ₹1,000 Crore Through A Rights Issue
Three months after a ₹780 crore QIP, and with ₹350 crore of this going to repay debt. The promoter may pledge shares to take up his entitlement.
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FINTECH
Moneyview's IPO Closed 101.87 Times Subscribed,…
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Moneyview's IPO Closed 101.87 Times Subscribed, Two Weeks After It Cut The Issue
The order book drew ₹77,843 crore for a ₹1,092 crore issue, after the company cut the offer before opening it.
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MARKETS & IPO
Anmol Industries Filed For A ₹1,800…
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Anmol Industries Filed For A ₹1,800 Crore IPO In Which The Company Gets Nothing
Profit rose roughly fivefold on 28 per cent revenue growth, which is a margin story rather than a demand one. The trust selling holds 84 per cent.
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SAAS & TECH
Tonbo Imaging Has SEBI Clearance For…
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Tonbo Imaging Has SEBI Clearance For An IPO That Raises It Nothing
The company owns all its intellectual property and rents its factories. That is rarer among Indian defence suppliers than the IPO itself.
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E-COMMERCE
Cars24 Cannot File Its IPO Papers…
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Cars24 Cannot File Its IPO Papers Until April 2027, After The Reverse Flip
The accounting change buried in the disclosure matters more than the date. Wholesale revenue is now recognised as commission, not vehicle value.
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MARKETS & IPO
India's Tech Funding Rose 7% To…
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India's Tech Funding Rose 7% To $10.3 Billion While The Number Of Rounds Fell 38%
Seed funding fell 37 per cent and first-time funded companies dropped 30 per cent. The pipeline is thinning while the top of the market absorbs more.
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MARKETS & IPO
Mastercard Has Sold Its Entire Pine…
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Mastercard Has Sold Its Entire Pine Labs Stake For ₹934 Crore
The buyers were domestic insurers and mutual funds. That is now the standing bid absorbing India's new-age exits.
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