Garuda Construction and Engineering Limited’s Initial Public Offering to open on Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Garuda Construction and Engineering Limited’s Initial Public Offering to open on Tuesday, October 08, 2024, price band set at ₹92/- to ₹95/- per Equity Share

·         Price Band of ₹92/– ₹95/- per Equity Share bearing face value of ₹5/- each (“Equity Shares”)

·         Bid/Offer Opening Date – Tuesday, October 08, 2024 and Bid/Offer Closing Date – Thursday, October 10, 2024.

·         Minimum Bid Lot is 157 Equity Shares and in multiples of 157 Equity Shares thereafter.

·         The Floor Price is 18.40 times the face value of the Equity Share and the Cap Price is 19.00 times the face value of the Equity Share.

Garuda Construction and Engineering Limited, a growing civil construction company provide end-to-end civil construction for residential, commercial, residential cum commercial, infrastructure and industrial projects and additional services for infrastructure and also hospitality projects, has fixed the price band of ₹92/- to ₹95/- per Equity Share of face value ₹5/- each for its maiden initial public offer.

The Initial Public Offering (“IPO” or “Offer”) of the Company will open on Tuesday, October 08, 2024, for subscription and close on Thursday, October 10, 2024. Investors can bid for a minimum of 157 Equity Shares and in multiples of 157 Equity Shares thereafter.

The IPO is a mix of fresh issue of up to 1,83,00,000 equity shares and an offer of sale up to 95,00,000 equity shares.

The net proceeds (gross proceeds less issue expenses) from its fresh issuance will be utilized to the extent of Rs 100 crore towards working capital requirement; and balance towards general corporate purposes including unidentified inorganic acquisitions.

Garuda Construction and Engineering is a growing civil construction company providing end-to-end civil construction for residential, commercial, residential cum commercial, infrastructure and industrial projects and additional services for infrastructure and also hospitality projects.

Its end-to-end civil construction starts with detailed route survey, designing, detailed engineering, mobilization of resources, micro scheduling of construction activities, obtaining construction permissions and conducting soil/water testing, hiring of contractor / manpower, procurement of material, lab testing, carrying out construction activities as per approved plan and finally handing over the project are per the agreed terms.

Besides, civil construction it is also involved in services. It also provides services such as operations and maintenance services (“O&M”) and Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (“MEP”) services and finishing works as a part of its construction services.

It is currently engaged in civil construction of six (6) residential projects, two (2) commercial projects, one (1) industrial project and one (1) infrastructure, with an order book of ₹ 1,408.27 crore.

Garuda Construction’s revenue from operations has grown from ₹ 77.02 crore in Fiscal 2022 to ₹ 154.18 crore in Fiscal 2024, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (“CAGR”) of 26.03%, and profit after tax has increased from ₹ 18.78 crore in Fiscal 2022 to ₹ 36.43 crore in Fiscal 2024, at a CAGR of 24.72%.

For the one month ended April 2024, revenue from operations stood at ₹ 11.87 crore and Profit after Tax stood at ₹ 3.50 crore.

The offer is being made through the book-building process, wherein not more than 50% of the offer shall be available for allocation on a proportionate basis to qualified institutional buyers, not less than 15% of the offer shall be available for allocation to non-institutional bidders, and not less than 35% of the offer shall be available for allocation to retail individual bidders.