Patanjali Foods, an edible oil firm promoted by Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved, has received a significant investment from the US-based investment firm GQG Partners. GQG Partners now holds a 5.96 per cent stake in Patanjali Foods.
According to a regulatory filing, GQG Partners has acquired a 5.96% stake in Patanjali Foods by purchasing 2,15,64,517 equity shares through the Offer For Sale (OFS) route.
On Wednesday, the share price of Patanjali Foods concluded at INR 1,332.75 per share, indicating a rise of 4.64 per cent compared to the previous day’s closing price.
Patanjali Foods’ market capitalization reached an impressive INR 48,245 crore, while the present valuation indicates that GQG Partners’ stake in the company is valued at approximately INR 2,900 crore.
Last week, Patanjali Foods announced that its promoter Patanjali Ayurved will sell up to 2.53 crore shares of the company through OFS in a bid to increase public float. The floor price was kept at INR 1,000.
The two-day Offer For Sale (OFS) was launched on July 13-14 by promoter entity Patanjali Ayurved to pare its total stake in Patanjali Foods by around 7 per cent to meet the minimum public shareholding requirement.
Patanjali Ayurved’s sale of shares of Patanjali Foods got oversubscribed more than two times at the end of the two-day offer on Friday.
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The offer received bids for 76,34,567 shares from retail investors as against 25,33,964 shares on offer, translating into three times subscription on Friday.
On Thursday, 2.28 crore shares were offered for non-retail investors and cumulative bids for over 4.56 crore shares were received, reflecting two times subscriptions.
After the OFS, Patanjali Foods Ltd on Saturday said that the shareholding of its promoters has come down to 73.82 per cent from 80.82 per cent earlier.
In June, GQG Partners and other foreign investors bought close to USD 1 billion of additional stakes in Adani group companies.
Patanjali Group had acquired bankrupt Ruchi Soya Industries and later renamed the company as Patanjali Foods.
Earlier, Patanjali Foods had launched a INR 4,300 crore Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) to reduce promoters’ stake and increase the public shareholding. Patanjali Foods’ total income increased to INR 31,821.45 crore in the last fiscal against INR 24,284.38 crore in 2021-22.
Out of the total revenue, the turnover of the edible oil segment rose to INR 25,253.33 crore last fiscal from INR 22,468.64 crore in the previous year.
Food & FMCG segment revenue jumped nearly four-fold to INR 6,218.08 crore in the 2022-23 fiscal from INR 1,683.24 crore in the year-ago period.
