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In an Indian public issue your application money never leaves your bank account, so a refund today means the release of a block rather than the return of a payment. This guide traces where the money sits, how partial allotment is settled, what normally delays a release, and how to escalate when it does not move.
You tap apply, the broker says the bid was submitted, and the approval request never reaches your payments app. This guide walks a beginner through the five places a UPI mandate breaks, how to tell which one you hit from the screens you already have, and the habits that stop it happening again.
The listing date is the first day a newly issued share can be bought or sold on the exchange. This guide follows the sequence from issue close to the opening bell, explains why the exchange uses a special pre-open call auction instead of ordinary trading, and shows how the clearing price that becomes the opening price is actually calculated.
Listing gain is a single subtraction: the first traded price minus the issue price, read as a percentage. This article works through the arithmetic in both directions, separates the paper number from the money an investor actually receives, and explains why a first-day move says almost nothing about the quality of the business behind it.
Two companies can run a public issue in the same week and end up on completely different platforms with different rulebooks. This article compares the mainboard with the SME platforms on who vets the offer, who qualifies to list, what a single lot costs, how liquid the share is afterwards, and what the retail reader is really taking on.
A plain inventory of what can go wrong when a retail investor applies to a public issue: the price is set by the seller, the disclosure record is short and issuer-authored, locked shares become tradable later, listing day concentrates every order into one auction, and grey market chatter quietly sets expectations.
Manipal Health IPO 2026 brings one of India's largest healthcare companies to the stock market. Check IPO dates, price band, GMP, financials, strengths, risks, subscription status, listing expectations and whether investors should apply.
Grey market premium is a quote from an informal, off-exchange network that trades unlisted IPO shares and IPO applications before listing day. This article covers the mechanics: where the number originates, how it is expressed in rupees per share, what the related kostak and subject-to-sauda rates mean, and what causes the quote to move.
An initial public offering is the process through which a privately held company sells shares to the public for the first time and lists them on a stock exchange. This article traces the full Indian sequence: the decision to go public, the SEBI filing, book building, allotment and finally the listing day.
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