HASCOL offers General Public IPO on 8th and 9th April 2014

HASCOL is going to offer 6.25 million shares to the General Public of Pakistan through IPO. The strike price per share is Rs. 56.50. HASCOL is involved in petroleum business and have more than 200 outlets in Pakistan.

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General Public Portion of the issue comprises of 6,250,000 ordinary shares (25% of the issue) at an issue price of pkr 56.50/- per share (inclusive of a premium of pkr 46.50/- per share).The issue price is actually the strike price determined through the book building Bidding period dates: from march 4, 2014 to march 5, 2014 (both days inclusive) from 9:00 a.m. To 5:00 p.m.

According to SCS Trade:

While comparing HPL with industry and other peers, we see that at this price (Rs 56.5/sh) HPL seems little expensive given premium price. Based on diluted EPS HPL yields expected PE of 11.3x which is much higher than the other peers and double of industry average expected PE of 5.8x. Likewise In term of PBV comparison HPL spells out higher PBV of 3.5x much higher than the industry average PBV of 1.5x.

It is our opinion that the company is in good business term and have strong potential to achieve much in the upcoming years. It is fact that price per share is much higher but the confidence of investors have shown that the company will yield much better results than the peers.