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LIC IPO Closes: Issue Oversubscribed Nearly 3 Times, Allotment On May 12
09 May 2022, 06:58 PM IST 
LIC IPO was open for subscription on Saturday and Sunday as well.
- All categories of the public offer were oversubscribed. The portion set aside for policyholders was booked 6.11 times, employees by 4.39 times, retail investors by 1.99 times, non-institutional investors by 2.91 times and qualified institutional buyers by 2.83 times.
- As of 7 pm today, the IPO was booked 2.95 times as investors bid for 47.76 crore shares compared with 16.20 crore shares on offer, exchange data showed.
- The state insurer's mega IPO was open for subscription on Saturday and Sunday as well.
- The LIC subscription in the price band of Rs 902-949 offered a discount to employees and retail investors of Rs 45 per share. LIC policyholders were offered a discount of Rs 60 per share.
- For an IPO, the Rs 21,000 crore valuation would be the highest ever in the Indian market. Before this, the highest fundraise was seen in Paytm IPO last year at Rs 18,300 crore and Coal India in 2010 at Rs 15,200 crore.
- The country's largest insurer had reduced its IPO size to 3.5 per cent from 5 per cent decided earlier due to the prevailing market condition.
- LIC had informed about the IPO for several months through various channels, including print and TV advertisements. It had also approached its policyholders through SMS and other mediums to inform them about the share sale.
- Demand for the IPO continued amid the interest rate hike by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks.
- The insurer had garnered around Rs 5,627 crore from anchor investors ahead of the IPO.
- LIC was formed by merging and nationalising 245 private life insurance companies on September 1, 1956, with an initial capital of Rs 5 crore.
