HOW DO FIRMS IN INDIA FINANCE THEMSELVES? Conference on “Adapting India’s financial sector to a globalizing world” Goa 1 st November, 2002 Prithvi Haldea PRIME DATABASE
A THEN & NOW STUDY THEN : TO (6 YEARS) NOW : TO (A-S) (6 1 / 2 YEARS)
Companies have not been able to raise money thru IPOs,which have nosedived… by amount
and by number…
Rights issues route too has dried up…by amount
and by number
Marginally more money could be raised thru GDRs/ADRs, courtesy the IT boom…
though the number of companies who could do it has fallen.
Debt private placements as a whole had risen dramatically,only courtesy SLUs and FIs… but even this is falling now,both by amount
and by number
Private sector is, however, raising more money. But most of it is either for retiring old expensive debt…
or is for short-term working capital
But debt is available only to < A rated issuances
Lesser money is coming thru venture capital
And fewer companies are being funded by VCs
In fact, number of VC funds investing in Indian companies has also declined sharply…
So have new commitments received by Indian VC funds
The bad news is that most funds are now investing in later-stage
Projects financed thru public issues are now non-existent. Aggregate values have fallen…
and so have number of such projects
Retail investors, who were acting as venture capitalists, have vanished…
Bridge Finance - almost non-existent now
Loans (Banks/FIs) - on one hand,the problems of NPAs - on the other, no lendable proposals or no lending despite rising deposits,courtesy CVC/CBI
Leasing (NBFCs) - almost over now
Fixed Deposits - almost over now
Where does the FUTURE lie for firms? ???
Private Equity - only to select, big, profitable firms
Venture Capital - cautious, and as such restrictive
Primary Market - scenario extremely grim
80 IPOs got SEBI approval, but could not enter market SL. COMPANY ISSUE AMOUNT NO. (Rs.crore) ____ ______________________________ ______________ 1 ESKAY K'N'IT (INDIA) LTD FUTURE SOFTWARE LTD GODREJ SARA LEE LTD NIMBUS COMMUNICATIONS LTD PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK PARAS PHARMACEUTICALS LTD UTV SOFTWARE COMMUNICATIONS LTD DATAMATICS TECHNOLOGIES LTD more
Companies actively wanting to access capital market Total companies : 614 Amount : Rs crore
Other pending issues Total companies : 1693
More problems for smaller IPOs - Regional Stock Exchanges in a disarray: problem for < Rs. 10 crore capital companies - Impractical 60% QIB guideline –not a single IPO till date under this
Revised entry norms for IPOs may help
Turnaround/ M & A Funds - when will they set up shop?
Private Sector Banks - some hope for borrowing
ADRs/ GDRs/ SDRs companies interested - international markets in a bad shape
Pension Funds - uncertainty continues
Thank You… but how will firms finance themselves ?