Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is ploughing more money into Adani group's flagship firm as it continues to be a net gainer despite the plunge in stock prices following a short seller's fraud allegations, filings and stock market data showed. LIC, India's largest life insurer, invested about Rs 300 crore in buying 9,15,748 more shares as an anchor investor in a Rs 20,000-crore new share sale by Adani Enterprises Ltd, according to a stock exchange filing of AEL. The shares that LIC picked totalled 5 per cent of the stocks reserved for anchor investors. In all 33 institutional investors put in Rs 5,985 crore as anchor investors in AEL. LIC already had 4.23 per cent stake in AEL, just like it has holding in other six listed companies of Adani Group. According to stock exchange information, LIC made a total investment of Rs 28,400 crore in Adani shares over the last few years. The value of these shares was Rs 72,200 crore before the report of the US short seller triggered a stock pric
Richest Asian Gautam Adani's group on Sunday expressed confidence that the Rs 20,000 crore follow-on share sale of its flagship firm will sail through despite a massive hammering of the conglomerate's stocks following a scathing report by a US-based short seller. Group CFO Jugeshinder Singh said no change in offering price or schedule is being considered due to temporary volatility in the market as the follow-on public offer (FPO) of Adani Enterprises Ltd is the best vehicle for strategic institutional investors to own a pie of the conglomerate's fast expanding airports, mining, roads, new energy and data centre businesses. All seven Adani group companies' stocks fell sharply over the last two trading sessions, wiping out Rs 10.7 lakh crore of investor wealth after Hindenburg Research alleged that the ports-to-energy-to-cement conglomerate had engaged in "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud" for decades. The sell-off is being looked into by market regulator SEBI and stock
The ruling BRS in Telangana on Saturday said the NDA government at the Centre needs to answer serious questions on LIC and SBI's large exposure to Adani Group stocks. Who "pushed" LIC and SBI to such a large exposure, the BRS claimed. "There are serious questions that need to be answered by the NDA Govt on #HindenburgReport. Why do LIC & SBI have such large exposure ?77,000 Cr & ?80,000 Crore to Adani group stocks? Who pushed them to do so? Who was aiding & abetting them in this entire episode?," tweeted State Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao, son of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. BRS MLC K Kavitha, daughter of Chandrasekhar Rao, in a statement, said the Centre should answer all the questions in the wake of the "fall and fluctuations in the LIC and SBI and market on the whole." The recent fall and fluctuations in the LIC, SBI and market on the whole, after the recent report on Adani Group is extremely worrisome. Every Indian deserves an explanation and .
All our stakeholders including bankers and investors have full faith in the FPO, Adani Enterprise said in a statement
Seven listed companies of the conglomerate controlled by Gautam Adani have lost a combined $48 billion in market valuation since Hindenburg report came out
Adverse feedback could lead to reduction in weightage of Adani stocks in MSCI indices
Lender says all exposures secured by cash generating assets, and debt service will not be a challenge
Total m-cap lowest since March 2022 after 2-day decline
The last time a bear attack was launched on a businessman gaining prominence rapidly was in the early 1980s when a cabal of brokers took on "an over-priced Reliance share", recalls T N Ninan
Closing Bell: Adani Enterprises and Adani Ports were the leading Nifty losers, which ended 18 and 15 per cent lower, respectively. SBI, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank were next in line sinking up to 5%
If Adani's companies can deliver a fraction of what he has pledged, then perhaps, in time, they might even grow into the valuations they have already achieved on paper
Shares of the group's flagship company Adani Enterprises tumbled 6.2 per cent, while those of Adani Green and Adani Total Gas declined 15.5 per cent and 19.6 per cent, respectively
Adani Group firms lost $11 billion in market capitalisation on Wednesday after New York-based Hindenburg Research flagged concerns in a report about debt levels and the use of tax havens
Stocks to Watch: Adani Enterprises FPO and Earthstahl & Alloys IPO opens for subscription on Friday. Shares of Adani Group companies also likely to be in focus amid the Hindenburg controversy.
Hindenburg Research: The name is based on the Hindenburg disaster of 1937, when a German passenger airship caught fire, killing 35 people
Adani group questions report's timing, calls it malicious
The Hindenburg report comes on the heels of Adani Enterprises' (AEL) plans of Rs 20,000 crore follow-on public offer (FPO) announced a few days ago
Hindenburg Research said that it was shorting Adani group's stocks and accused the firms of 'brazen' market manipulation and accounting fraud
Closing Bell: Sectorally, Nifty IT clocked around a 2 per cent gain, followed by nearly 1 per cent upmove in bank, auto, FMCG and pharma indices. Metals and realty were the only pockets to close lower
AEL will be investing $70 billion in incubating new businesses and at the group level we will be investing close to $107 billion in the next decade, Singh says