KRM Ayurveda IPO GMP ₹16 Today (16 Oct), Price Band, Subscription Status, Allotment Date

KRM Ayurveda IPO Review & Analysis

Our reading of the numbers below — growth rates, margins, pricing and demand are calculated from the company's own filed figures, not copied from anywhere.

KRM Ayurveda is an SME issue raising ₹77 Crores, offered in a band of ₹128–₹135 per share. At the upper end that is 13.5 times the ₹10 face value, so ₹125 of every share subscribed is share premium rather than capital. SME issues list on the BSE SME or NSE Emerge platform rather than the main board. They trade in fixed lots after listing, carry no retail-versus-HNI cut-off bidding, and are usually far less liquid, so exiting a position can take longer than on the main board.

A retail application for KRM Ayurveda needs one lot of 2000 shares, which works out to ₹2,70,000 at the upper band of ₹135. SME lots are deliberately sized above ₹1,00,000, so this is a far larger single commitment than a mainboard application and rules out most small investors. Retail applications are capped at ₹2,00,000, which here is a single lot; bidding above that moves the application into the non-institutional category, and the large-HNI bucket begins at ₹10,00,000, or about 4 lots.

For KRM Ayurveda, bidding runs 21-23 January, allotment is finalised on 27 Jan 2026, the shares list on 29 Jan 2026. Applications that do not receive an allotment have their UPI mandate released around 4 days after the issue closes. Counting from the close of bidding, money stays blocked for roughly 6 days before listing decides what the holding is worth.

The issue is reserved 18.5% to qualified institutional buyers, 13.95% to non-institutional investors, 32.51% to retail. At 32.51%, the retail portion is on the narrower side, so retail allotment turns into a lottery quickly once the book fills. An oversubscribed retail portion is not allotted in proportion to the amount applied for: applications are reduced to single lots and drawn by lot, so several small applications from different PANs are more effective than one large one.

The book is 3.15x subscribed across all categories. That headline covers institutional, non-institutional and retail bids together, and allotment odds are decided within each category separately — an issue can be heavily subscribed overall while the retail portion is comfortable, or the other way round. An oversubscribed retail book is settled by a draw on single-lot applications, so more distinct PANs help where a bigger single bid does not.

Skyline Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. is the registrar for this issue, which means the allotment status for KRM Ayurveda is published on their portal from 27 Jan 2026. A PAN, application number or demat client ID is enough to look it up; the credited shares also appear in the demat account itself a day or so before listing.

A grey market premium of ₹16 on the upper band of ₹135 implies a listing gain of roughly 11.9%. The grey market is unofficial and unregulated, the premium can change daily, and it has no bearing on allotment — treat it as a sentiment reading, not a forecast.

The figures above are worked out from the issue's own filed numbers and are for information only. They are not investment advice — read the RHP before you apply.