Phytochem Remedies IPO GMP, Price Band, Subscription Status, Allotment Date

Phytochem Remedies 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.

Phytochem Remedies is an SME issue raising ₹38.22 Crores, offered in a band of ₹98–₹98 per share. At the upper end that is 9.8 times the ₹10 face value, so ₹88 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 Phytochem Remedies needs one lot of 2400 shares, which works out to ₹2,35,200 at the upper band of ₹98. 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 5 lots.

For Phytochem Remedies, bidding runs 18-22 December, allotment is finalised on CANCELLED, the shares list on CANCELLED.

The issue is reserved 47.48% to non-institutional investors, 47.48% to retail. A 47.48% retail share is the wider end of the range, which improves the odds for small applications when the book is only modestly oversubscribed. 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.

Subscription stands at 0.52x, which is below full. An issue must be subscribed at least once over to proceed at all; if it closes under that, the offer is withdrawn and all application money is refunded.

Bigshare Services Pvt. Ltd is the registrar for this issue, which means the allotment status for Phytochem Remedies is published on their portal from CANCELLED. 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.

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.