Punjab & Sind Bank builds up on plan of selling 5% stake to LIC

17 Feb 2012 Evaluate

Punjab & Sind Bank is currently trading at Rs 91.50, up by 5.75 points or 6.71% from its previous closing of Rs. 85.75 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 88.50 and has touched a high and low of Rs 94.65 and Rs 88.50 respectively. So far 323398 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 116.00 on 06-Apr-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs 56.05 on 22-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 94.65 and Rs 80.50 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 2055.46 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 82.07% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 5.02% and 12.91% respectively.

Punjab & Sind Bank (PSB) is all set to issue shares up to 5% of the paid-up capital on preferential basis to Life Insurance Corporation (LIC). The bank proposes to issue 11.2 million fresh shares at a rate to be decided in terms of SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, subject to approval from the government of India and other regulatory compliances.

LIC will have to pay about Rs 95 crore to the bank as per existing share price of PSB. The additional capital will further strengthen Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio (CRAR) of the bank and support its business growth.

Currently, the government holds 82.07% in the bank. After share transaction in favour of LIC, government's stake in the bank would come down.

Earlier, the bank had raised Rs 470.82 crore in 2010 through an IPO, which was subscribed 50.75 times.

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