LIC IPO Subscription on last day: Issue subscribed 2.95 times; retail portion booked nearly 2 times, policy holder over 6 times

LIC IPO: The public issue of the Life Insurance Corporation of India ended on Monday. The issue was subscribed 2.95 times. The state-run insures received 47,83,67,010 share bids against 16,20,78,067 shares availabe for subscription. The Policy holders subscribed it over 6 times. In the employee category, the issue was subscribed 4.4 times. As for Retail Individual Investors (RIIs), Non-institutional Investors and Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs), the share bids received were 1.99 times, 2.91 times and 2.83 times respectively. The data was sourced brom BSE website and was last updated at 7 pm.

LIC IPO latest subscription details. Overall subscription nearing 3x, policyholders quota booked almost 6 times, retail subscription at 1.95 times. 

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LIC IPO interesting facts:

LIC was formed by merging and nationalising 245 private life insurance companies on September 1, 1956, with an initial capital of Rs 5 crore. Its product portfolio comprises 32 individual plans (16 participating and 16 non-participating) and seven individual optional rider benefits. The insurer's group product portfolio comprises 11 group products.

LIC IPO continues to attract investors despite falling market. The issue has been subscribed 2.5 times so far on the last day. NIIs and QIBs quota were too subscribed over 2 times. 

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LIC reduced its IPO size to 3.5 per cent from 5 per cent decided earlier due to the prevailing choppy market conditions. Even after the reduced size of about Rs 20,557 crore, LIC IPO is going to be the biggest initial public offering ever in the country.

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5 biggest IPOs before LIC and worst performers

Reliance Power, which was the third largest IPO after Paytm and Coal India before LIC IPO launch, is the worst performer of all in terms of correction on issue price. Reliance Power has corrected 96.8% on its issue price as on April 2. Here is how other biggest IPOs have performed 

Company                  Issue Price (cr)   Performance 

Paytm                       `2150            -72% 

Coal India                   `245           -23.7% 

Reliance Power         `450           -96.8% 

General Insurance    `912           -85.4% 

SBI Card                      `755            +8.6% 

Note: The data is as on May 4

Employees were closely following LIC policyholders in subscription. The category was subscribed nearly 4 times around, while retail portion was booked 1.7 times so far on the last day. 

LIC IPO was booked twice the size of its allotted quota on the last day so far. Policyholders continue to dominate the subscription with 5.3% subscription.

The portion reserved for qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) was finally oversubscribed on the last day of opening of LIC IPO. Overall, issue was booked 1.93 times around 10.20 am.