Shares in India Paytm fell 24% on their first day of trade, with investors questioning the Digital Payment payment business model of losses even though they had just finished the largest IPO in the country.
Stocks renamed at RS 1,645 in morning trade versus RS 2,150 offer price, assessing companies supported by ants group around Rs 1.07 trillion ($ 14.4 billion).
If it falls as far as Rs 1.560, it will regard the 20% exchanging circuit breaker, where trading points will be stopped for that day.
“Paytm has made a loss and there is no sign to change profitable in the near future,” said Parth Nyati, the founder of Indian tradingo platform tradingo.
Paytm, who also calculated softbank among his supporters, collected $ 2.5 billion in initial public offering, which was $ 1.1 billion from institutional investors.
Last week received an offer of $ 2.64 billion for the remaining shares offered, or 1.89 times.
Analysts at Macquarie Research said in notes to clients that the PayTM business model did not have “focus and direction” and start coverage with poor performance rankings.
“Achieving a scale with profitability of a big challenge,” said the note, calling the company “cash”.
Many market participants saw a stock accident on his debut as a sign that investors became disappointed with a series of IPOS recently with increasing ratings.
Paytm listings can carry “ending annoying prices on the IPO market”, Mumbai Sandip Based Investment Advisor Sabharwal said, adding that too many companies did not have a clear path for profitability.
Postgraduate Engineering Vijay Shekhar Sharma established Paytm in 2010 as a platform for mobile refilling.
The company grew rapidly after rising Uber company registering it as a quick payment option in India and its use of further swells at the end of 2016 when the New Delhi shock on the value of high-value currencies increased digital payments.
The success of Paytm has changed Sharma, a school teacher’s son, becoming a billionaire with a net worth of $ 2.4 billion according to Forbes.
The IPO has also scored hundreds of new millionaires in the country where income per capita is under $ 2,000.