DOMS Industries IPO Allotment Status

DOMS Industries Ltd  IPO Structure

The IPO of DOMS Industries Ltd opened for subscription on 13th December 2023 and closed on 15th December 2023. The stock of DOMS Industries Ltd has a face value of ₹10 per share and for the book building IPO the price band range is ₹750 to ₹790 per share. The final price will be discovered within this band. The IPO of DOMS Industries Ltd will be a combination of a fresh issue and an offer for sale (OFS). The fresh issue portion of DOMS Industries Ltd IPO comprises the issue of 44,30,380 shares (44.30 lakh shares approximately), which at the upper price band of ₹790 per share will translate into fresh issue size of ₹350 crore. The offer for sale (OFS) portion of the IPO of DOMS Industries Ltd comprises the sale of 1,07,59,493 shares (107.59 lakh shares), which at the upper price band of ₹790 per share will translate into an offer for sale (OFS) size of ₹850 crore. The OFS is offered by the promoter shareholders of the company. Out of the ₹850 crore OFS, the corporate promoter (FILA of Italy) will offer shares worth ₹800 crore while the two promoter shareholders Sanjay Rajani and Ketan Rajani will offer shares worth ₹25 crore each. 

How does the overall IPO size up? The DOMS Industries IPO will comprise of the issue and sale of 1,51,89,873 shares (151.90 lakh shares approximately), which at the upper price band of ₹790 per share will translate into total IPO issue size of ₹1,200 crore. While the fresh issue will be capital and EPS dilutive, the offer for sale portion will only result in transfer of ownership. The entire OFS is being offered by the promoter shareholders of DOMS Industries Ltd. The net proceeds from the IPO fresh issue portion will be utilized for partly financing the establishing of a new manufacturing facility to expand capacity of writing instruments. The IPO will be lead managed by JM Financial, BNP Paribas, ICICI Securities and IIFL Securities. Link Intime India Private Ltd is the registrar to the issue. 

Subscription update for DOMS Industries Ltd IPO?

The net proceeds from the IPO fresh issue portion will be utilized for part financing the establishment of a new manufacturing facility to expand its capacity of writing instruments in India. The IPO will be lead managed by JM Financial, BNP Paribas Securities, ICICI Securities and IIFL Securities. Link Intime India Private Ltd will be the registrar to the issue.

The IPO of DOMS Industries Ltd  was overall subscribed 93.52 times, with the maximum subscription coming from the QIB portion, which got subscribed 115.97 times. While the HNI / NII segment got subscribed at a healthy clip of 66.51 times, the retail portion also got subscribed at a relatively healthy clip of 69.67 times. The employee portion also got subscribed a robust 29.21 times the offer quantity. Most of the QIB subscriptions came in on last day of IPO, which is the norm. The IPO was open for a period of 3 days in total from December 13, 2023 to December 15, 2023.

When will the basis of allotment be finalized?

The first step for checking the allotment status of the IPO online is the completion of the basis of allotment of DOMS Industries Ltd . The basis of allotment will be finalized late on 18th December 2023. The refunds will be initiated by the company on 19th December 2023. The demat credits are expected to happen on 19th December 2023 while the listing of the stock on the NSE and the BSE will happen on 20th December 2023. In between there is a weekend and a holiday so the allotment status gets delayed by a couple of days. However, it looks like the companies are keen to adhere to the new SEBI norm of T+3 listing. That was voluntary till the end of November but has become mandatory as of the start of December 2023, so IPO issuers are now fully prepared for the new system. The adherence has been much more robust among the SME IPOs, and now mainboard IPOs are catching on.

If you have applied for the IPO, you can check your allotment status online.  You can either check your allotment status on the BSE website or the IPO registrar, Link Intime India Private Limited. Here are the steps.

Checking the allotment status of DOMS Industries Ltd  on BSE website

This is a facility available to all mainboard IPOs, irrespective of who the registrar to the issue is. You can still access the allotment status on the website of BSE India as under. Visit the BSE link for the IPO allotment by clicking on the link below. 

https://www.bseindia.com/investors/appli_check.aspx

Once you reach the page, here are the steps to follow.
    • Under Issue Type – Select Equity Option
    • Under Issue Name – Select DOMS Industries Ltd  from the drop down box
    • Enter the Application Number exactly as in the acknowledgement slip
    • Enter the PAN (10-digit alphanumeric) number
    • Once this is done, you need to click on the Captcha to verify that you are not a robot
    • Finally click on the Search Button

In the past, while checking the allotment status on the BSE website, it was necessary to input the PAN number and the application Number. However, now BSE has modified the requirements and it is sufficient if you enter any one of these parameters.

The allotment status will be displayed on the screen in front of you informing about the number of shares of DOMS Industries Ltd  allotted into your demat account. It is always advisable to save a screenshot of the allotment status output for subsequently verifying with the demat account credits on or after 04th December 2023.  

Checking the allotment status of DOMS Industries Ltd on Link Intime India Private Limited (Registrar to the IPO)

Here are the steps to follow. Visit the Link Intime registrar website for IPO status by clicking on the link below:

https://linkintime.co.in/IPO/public-issues.html

There are three things to remember. Firstly, you can just click on the hyper link given above and directly go to the allotment checking page. The second option, in case you are not able to click on the link, is to copy the link and paste in your web browser. Thirdly, there also a way to access this page via the home page of Link Intime India Private Ltd by clicking on the Public Issues link displayed prominently on the home page. It all works the same.
This dropdown will only show the active IPOs, so once the allotment status is finalized, you can select DOMS Industries Ltd  from the drop-down box. In the case of DOMS Industries Ltd, data access will be allowed late on 18th of December 2023 or by middle of 19th of December 2023. 

    • There are 4 options available to you and you will find these 4 options on the above access page itself. You can either access the allotment status based on PAN or Application Number or DPID / Client ID combination or based on the combination of the bank account / IFSC code used to apply for the IPO. You can select any one of the options that is preferred and provide the details accordingly.

    • If you opt for the PAN Number access, then enter the 10 character income tax permanent account number (PAN). This is an alphanumeric code available either on your PAN card or on top of your income tax return.

    • The second option is to use the Application Number that you used while making an application for the IPO. The application number is available on the acknowledgement provided to you and you can use that as one of the options to access allotment status.

    • The third option is to use the DPID-Client ID combination. Remember that here you have to enter the DP id and the demat client id together as one single string. This DPID / Client ID combination is a numeric figure for CDSL demat accounts while it is an alphanumeric string for NSDL demat accounts. This combination of DP ID / Client ID of your demat account will be available in your demat statement or you can also get it online from your online trading account or trading app downloaded on the smart phone.

    • The fourth option is to query based on the combination of your bank account number and IFSC number and irrespective of how many bank accounts you have, only use the bank account used for this particular IPO application. Once you click on this option, you find two boxes. First, enter your bank account number as it is. Secondly, enter the 11-character IFSC code, which is available on your cheque book. The first 4 characters of the IFSC code are alphabets and the last 7 characters are numeric. IFSC is an abbreviation for Indian Financial System Code and is unique to each account.

    • Finally, click on the Search button

The IPO status with number of shares of DOMS Industries Ltd  allotted will be displayed on the screen in front of you. You can take a screenshot of the output page for your records. The same can be verified with the demat account on 19th December 2023 or after that. The stock is expected to list on 20th December 2023. The only question now is, what determines chances of allocation in the IPO? It boils down to allocation quota and subscription levels.

Allocation quota and subscription levels for DOMS Industries Ltd 

The table below captures the quota allocated to various categories, in terms of the number of shares and also the percentage of the total share capital raised. For investors it is the quota for the retail and the HNI that really matters.

The next thing to look at is the extent of subscription. The table below captures the extent of oversubscription for each of the categories as well as the overall subscription for DOMS Industries Ltd.

Data Source: BSE

The response to the IPO of DOMS Industries Ltd  was strong overall, and it was also quite strong for the retail portion and the HNI portions. The retail subscription of 69.67 times gives a rather low opportunity of allotment in the IPO. However, the investors can still be hopeful since the SEBI norms on retail IPO allotment is to allot the basic lot size to as many unique investors as possible. The same can be checked using the allotment checking modus operandi explained above. You just need to wait for the basis of allotment to be finalized.