Indus Towers Limited Buyback 2024

1. Merger and Formation: Indus Towers Limited was formed by the merger of Bharti Infratel Limited and Indus Towers, making it one of the largest telecom tower companies in the world.

2. Communication Enabler: The company plays a crucial role in enabling communication for millions of people daily by providing affordable, high-quality, and reliable network connectivity services across India.

3. Extensive Infrastructure: As of March 31, 2024, Indus Towers Limited operates over 219,736 towers and 368,588 co-locations, ensuring a robust infrastructure for telecom services nationwide.

4. Nationwide Presence: Indus Towers has a nationwide presence covering all 22 telecom circles in India, making it a critical player in the country’s telecom infrastructure.

5. Leading Customers: The company’s leading customers include major wireless telecommunications service providers in India such as Bharti Airtel (including Bharti Hexacom), Vodafone Idea Limited, and Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited.

Buy Back Offer Deal:

Buyback Type: Tender Offer
Buyback Record Date: Aug 09 2024
Buyback Opening Date: Aug 14 2024
Buyback Closing Date: Aug 21 2025
Buyback Offer Amount: ₹ 2640 Cr.
Date of Board Meeting approving the proposal: Jul 30 2024
Date of Public Announcement: Jul 30 2024
Buyback Offer Size: 2.107%
Buyback Number of Shares: 5,67,74,193
FV: 10
Buyback Price: ₹ 465 Per Equity Share

Details of Buyback:

The proposal to buyback not exceeding 5,67,74,193 (Five Crore Sixty-Seven Lakh, Seventy-Four Thousand, One Hundred Ninety-Three only) equity shares of the Company (representing 2.107 % of the total number of equity shares in the paid-up share capital of the Company) at a price of Rs. 465 (Indian Rupees Four Hundred and Sixty Five Only) per equity share payable in cash for an aggregate consideration not exceeding Rs. 2,640 Crore (Indian Rupees Two Thousand Six Hundred Forty Crores Only).

Salient financial parameters:

Particulars (In Cr)
Mar 2020 Mar 2021 Mar 2022 Mar 2023 Mar 2024
Sales + 6,743 13,954 27,717 28,382 28,601
Expenses + 3,185 6,775 12,816 18,713 14,044
Operating Profit 3,558 7,179 14,901 9,669 14,557
OPM % 53% 51% 54% 34% 51%
Other Income + 1,846 1,262 458 85 361
Interest 335 836 1,603 1,670 735
Depreciation 1,282 2,848 5,325 5,324 6,060
Profit before tax 3,788 4,757 8,431 2,759 8,122
Tax % 13% 21% 24% 26% 26%
Net Profit + 3,299 3,779 6,373 2,040 6,036
EPS in Rs 17.83 14.02 23.65 7.57 22.4
Dividend Payout %
59% 143% 47% 0% 0%

How to Participate in buyback?

1. Firstly, to be eligible for the buyback the investor should have shares of  Indus Tower Limited in Demat or physical form as on the record date [09-08-2024].
2. Once you have shares in Demat, you can participate in the buyback process which is opening from [14-08-2024] by selling your shares through your broker on NSE or BSE.
3. Then on [06-09-2024], the payment will be given to you for accepted shares and unaccepted shares will be returned to your Demat account.

Profit from the buyback on the bases of acceptance Ratio:

Buy 430 Shares at CPM of Rs. 441 (2,00,000/465)
Acceptance Ratio 33% 50% 75% 100%
Amount Invested in Buyback 189630 189630 189630 189630
No. of Shares Buyback 142 215 322 430
Buyback Profit 3408 5160 7728 10320
Profit% 1.80% 2.72% 4.08% 5.44%

49 Comments

    INDUS TOWER BUYBACK OBLIGATION OUT*

    As expected (55-60%) Small Shareholder Acceptance is around 57%, 256 out of 450 shares are accepted.
    Kindly check your share acceptance with your Brokers.

      Payment received in account.More importantly, the share closed at a substantial margin above the purchase price in the share market . Pranam to Mittal Sab of Bharati Airtel and his Business Empire around the world and all the major share holders of this beautiful company.

    🚨 𝕀ℕ𝔻𝕌𝕊 𝕋𝕆𝕎𝔼ℝ𝕊 𝕃𝕋𝔻. 𝔹𝕌𝕐𝔹𝔸ℂ𝕂 𝕌ℙ𝔻𝔸𝕋𝔼 🚨

    🔅 Exp’t Retail Accept. : around 55-60%

    ▪️ Retail Entitl : 25.13%

    ▪️Sett. Dt.: 28/08

    * Expt’d AR is based on trend of shares tendered by participants.

    🚨 𝕀ℕ𝔻𝕌𝕊 𝕋𝕆𝕎𝔼ℝ𝕊 𝕃𝕋𝔻. 𝔹𝕌𝕐𝔹𝔸ℂ𝕂 𝕌ℙ𝔻𝔸𝕋𝔼 🚨

    Due to last two days less participation from Buyback participants and less gap between CMP and Buyback Price, my expectation for small share holders Entitlement & acceptance is revised upside.

    🔅 Exp’t Retail Entitl : Above 20%

    🔅 Exp’t Retail Accept. : around 50%

    * All calculations are based on current market scenario and share price.

      I bought 450 shares assuming er will be for 100 shares.
      so can i sell my 350 share and tender only 100 share
      Is it possible?

        Please note that there are two ratios in Buyback:
        1) ER – Entitlement ratio – This is the ratio for all small share holders as per their holding and 15% reservation. It considers all the share holders on the record date, Normally the ER is low 5 -25% deping on share holding in different categories i.e. small share holder.
        2) AR – Acceptance ratio – this is the ratio in which shares are actually bought back in buy back. It is always greater than ER. Normally +10 % of ER to 100%.

        So if you assume ER to be 100 /450, 100 would be definitely accepted.

        But for AR, you have to tender all share and ratio would be applied on all, For example if ER is 100 /450 and you tender 100, all would be accepted. If you tender more say 400, 100 would be accepted and AR would be applied on extra 200 tendered.

        So depending on what is the future prospect of stock, it is normally good to hold and tender all.

    Hello members, is there any way we can estimate AR? I have been searching for it but can’t find any results, kindly answer.

    What would be the expected AR as promoters are not participating.
    Expert please share your view

      There is no meaning in speculations about possible AR.Thanks Ramesh ji for the information that promoters are not participating.Having sold my holdings of 180 nos today I hope to buy at around ₹ 130/ and participate in this buyback .

        Forgive me for the typographical error of ₹130/ It stand corrected as 430/

      I don’t think promoters not participating will have an impact for retail shareholders as they will probably still be less than 15% of shareholders excluding promoters.

      Buyback Price: Rs.465/-
      Buyback Size: 5,67,74,193 shares
      Mode of the Buyback : Tender Offer

        As the CMP is Rs 446.80 and the Buyback Price is Rs.465/-it is not an attractive Buyback.

          Thank you so much for your early warning. Got rid of my holding @ the opening price of 448.75 itself. I think the post budget buybacks which are awaiting Board meeting outcome are going to be like this.No more buying in advance.Wish good luck to all.

        Record Date: August 9 th
        Size : 2.1% of the total number of the equity shares in the paid-up share capital of the Company,

    Hi, Have found this platform to be of a great beneficiary to increase knowledge in the Buybacks, Thankyou for the same, Can you guys consider to start something related to M&A too if possible like recent example of Ultratech cement and India cements

    Thank you friends. Good to know that so many offers are on the way 😄

      Gopi ji, please share your view. You have stopped your view since few days.

        Thank you Ramesh ji for your kind mention. I have not been commenting on the current trio of buybacks because of the relatively lower size which is well known at first glance to everyone.Let us hope the latest ones will be better.I have already bought few of Indus Towers and AIA Engineering. Skipping KDDL and WELSPUN. Left with 30 Aurobindo Pharma.

      Gopiji your expertise in markets is quite brilliant, will request you to help with these influx of buybacks. It will only help us make few bucks…

        Thank you for your faith and kind words. I will be available for any help you need within my limited knowledge and experience.

    Considering the tax on share buybacks effective from October 1st, we may see a surge in buyback proposals before that date. Our challenge is to identify the most promising buybacks given our limited available funds…

    Another one, Cera Sanitaryware Ltd !! Meeting for Buyback on 5th August..

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