Bharti Airtel rings loud on selling 4.5% stake in Bharti Infratel

08 Aug 2014 Evaluate

Bharti Airtel is currently trading at Rs. 368.45, up by 2.40 points or 0.66% from its previous closing of Rs. 366.05 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 365.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 369.55 and Rs. 361.70 respectively. So far 88799 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A ' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 386.80 on 01-Aug-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs. 279.25 on 28-Aug-2013.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 386.80 and Rs. 363.50 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 147084.34 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 65.37% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 24.90% and 9.72% respectively.

Bharti Airtel has raised Rs 2,100 crore by selling a 4.5 per cent stake in its telecom tower subsidiary -- Bharti Infratel. The sale, to comply with SEBI’s minimum public shareholding norm of 25 per cent, took place in the open market. Airtel has sold 85 million shares of Bharti Infratel to bring down its holding to 74.86 per cent.

The proceeds from the share sale will allow the company to bring down its debt. The net debt of the company stood at $9.6 billion as of June end. The Offer for Sale, which opened and closed on August 7 on the BSE and the NSE, was for 45 million shares, with a green shoe option to sell an additional 40 million shares. A green shoe option allows a company to sell more shares than originally planned. The offer for sale was over-subscribed 2.4 times as bids came for about 204 million shares.

Bharti Airtel has been one of the pioneers in India’s telecom revolution over the past two decades. In Africa, Bharti Airtel is the largest mobile operator in the Continent in terms of geographical footprint, which spans 17 countries with over 70 million customers.

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