The crisis of confidence plaguing Gautam Adani is deepening, with the selloff in the Adani group shares triggered by Hindenburg Research's fraud allegations rapidly turning into a meltdown
Wednesday's stock losses saw Gautam Adani slip to 10th on Forbes rich list with an estimated $84.1 billion, just below rival Mukesh Ambani
Hindenburg Research last week flagged concerns about the conglomerate, that included its high debt levels, triggering a $65 billion rout in the group's stocks
The flagship firm Adani Enterprises rose nearly 3.4 per cent after its follow-on share sale managed to sail through
One lesson that the Hindenburg report has hammered home is that big business groups are best served by transparency in their business and financial dealings
The fully subscribed offering removes one overhang for India's $3.2 trillion stock market, which recently dropped out of the world's five biggest by value
Dwells on host of key partnerships in Jewish nation, such as Elbit Systems, Israel Weapon Systems, and Israel Innovation Authority; vows to change Haifa skyline with latest deal
Indian tycoon Gautam Adani's ports-to-energy conglomerate will set up an artificial intelligence lab in Tel Aviv as it looks to leverage on a USD 1.2 billion Haifa port deal to make more investments in Israel. Adani, whose business empire was rocked by allegations of fraud by US short seller Hindenburg Research, appeared alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for signing of the deal to takeover Haifa Port in Israel, and spoke of investment opportunities. He did not make any mention of the row that has already wiped out over USD 70 billion in value from his group stocks. Adani, 60, said his group will also develop real estate at the port to transform the Haifa skyline. "We have initiated several dozen technology relationships wherein we have offered the entire Adani portfolio of companies to be a giant sandbox for us to learn together," he said in his speech. "We are also in the process of setting up an Artificial Intelligence lab in Tel Aviv which will work in close ..
Adani did not speak about his group's recent share sale or a scathing short-seller's report that has pummelled the Indian billionaire's stocks
Adani FPO: The interest from retail individual investors has been low, with only 11 per cent quota subscribed
The Rs 20,000 crore share sale of Adani group's flagship firm was fully subscribed on Tuesday after non-retail investors bid in big volumes, according to stock exchange data. As many as 4.62 crore shares were sought as against an offer of 4.55 crore. Non-institutional investors put in bids for over three times the 96.16 lakh shares reserved for them, while the 1.28 crore shares reserved for qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) was almost fully subscribed, according to BSE data. There was, however, muted response from retail investors and company employees. Retail investors, for whom roughly half of the issue was reserved, bid for just 11 per cent of the 2.29 crore shares earmarked for them. Employees sought 52 per cent of the 1.6 lakh shares reserved for them.
In the last 24 hours, Adani's net worth has fallen $8.21 billion, the highest among the top 100 billionaires in the list
According to Hindenburg, Adani insiders already own more than 75% of four publicly traded subsidiaries with the aid of offshore shell entities
Adani is seeking to execute the landmark share sale just as it refutes allegations by Hindenburg that the Indian conglomerate used a web of companies in tax havens to inflate revenue and stock prices
India has successfully differentiated itself from other EMs, and even from China, through the transparency of its markets, quality of its markets regulator and its protections for minority investors
Shares of Adani Green Energy and Adani Total Gas hit the 20 per cent lower circuit for a second day, closing at Rs 1,189 and Rs 2,342, respectively
The US-based short seller said that the Adani Group 'tried to lead the focus away from substantive issues and instead stoked a nationalist narrative'
The three-day selloff has now erased nearly $72 billion of market value amid a share sale by Adani's flagship that was meant to underline the tycoon's ascension on the global stage
'This is not merely an unwarranted attack on any specific company but a calculated attack on India'
IHC subscribed to 16 per cent of Adani Enterprises worth USD 2.5 billion FPO