The top provider and manufacturer of welding equipment in India is Diffusion Engineers. The company is all set to go public by launching an Initial Public Offering (IPO) which is scheduled to open for subscription on Thursday, September 26, 2024 and close on Monday, September 30, 2024. On the other hand, the Grey Market Premium (GMP) has indicated a healthy premium of 29.76%, indicating that the IPO may perform stronger on listing or bumper listing. This is in line with the book-built issue, which was met with an impressive response from the grey market prior to Diffusion Engineers’ official stock exchange debut.

Diffusion Engineers IPO GMP Today

The term “grey market premium,” or GMP, describes the gap between the issue price determined by the firm for IPO and the value at which shares are sold on the grey market or unofficial marketplace. The grey market premium (GMP), in the instance of the Diffusion Engineers Limited IPO, is a gauge of the investor reaction and demand for an IPO prior to its debut on D-Street. Diffusion Engineers’ latest IPO GMP, as of September 23, 2024, at 5:59 PM, was Rs 50. The expected listing price for the Diffusion Engineers IPO, considering an upper price band of Rs 168.00, is Rs 218 (upper price band + today’s GMP). Therefore, based on today’s GMP, Diffusion Engineers is anticipated to debut on the public market with a hefty premium of 29.76% over and above the issue price.

Diffusion Engineers IPO Details

The book-built issue – Diffusion Engineers IPO is scheduled to open on Thursday, September 26, 2024, and close on Monday, September 30, 2024. There is no offer-for-sale component to the issue; it is a completely fresh issue of 0.94 crore shares having a total value of Rs 158.00 crores. On Tuesday, October 1, 2024, the basis of share allotment of Diffusion Engineers IPO is likely to be finalized.

The scheduled listing date for Diffusion Engineers IPO is set for Friday, October 4, 2024 on the BSE and NSE platforms. For its IPO, Diffusion Engineers has set a price band between Rs 159 and Rs 168. The minimum number of lots needed to submit an application is 88 shares. Therefore, to subscribe to the Diffusion Engineers IPO, retail investors must deposit a minimum of Rs 14,784. Up to 50,000 shares are reserved for employees in the issue, at a discount of Rs 8 from the IPO issue price.

The registrar of the Diffusion Engineers IPO is Bigshare Services Pvt Ltd, while the book-running lead manager is Unistone Capital Pvt Ltd. A net issue of 50% has been set aside for qualified institutional buyers, 15% for non-institutional investors, and retail investors will receive the remaining 35% of the shares.

Diffusion Engineers IPO Objective

The company plans to use the net proceeds from the Issue to finance working capital needs, capital expenditure requirements for expanding the current production facility, the establishment of a new manufacturing facility, and other general corporate purposes.

Diffusion Engineers Financials

For the year that ended in March 2024, the company’s sales were Rs 278.14 crore, up 9.1% from Rs 255 crore the year before. The profit for the fiscal year 2024 climbed to Rs 30.8 crore, a considerable year-over-year gain of 39.1%. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization, or EBITDA, climbed by 39.4% to Rs 38.9 crore throughout the course of the year. In FY24, the company’s net income was Rs 30.80 Cr, up from Rs 22.15 Cr in FY23. The company’s debt-to-equity ratio was 0.18, its ROCE was 20.63%, its EBITDA margin was 17.04%, and its EPS was Rs 8.24.

Diffusion Engineers IPO Review

“Diffusion Engineers has strong fundamentals with a low PE ratio & ROCE above 20%. Investors can subscribe for listing gains though as broader markets along with the BSE IPO index is overheated and it will be better if investors keep booking profits in recently invested IPO stocks as well,” commented A R Ramachandran, Independent Research Analyst.

Story first published: Monday, September 23, 2024, 20:26 [IST]