The Pakistani stocks yielded a mouth-watering return of 38 per cent in the financial year ended June 30, 2021. That was the highest return provided to the investors after 14 years 2013-14 had given a return of 41pc. But it has to be reckoned that over the past five years, the average yearly return dropped to 7pc as in the last three of the five years, the market performed extremely poorly: 2017-18 gave out a negative return of 10pc; 2018-19 a negative return of 19pc and 2019-20 yielded a nominal positive return of 1.53pc. With such a poor base, the 38pc return in 2020-21 is neither strange nor something to jump with joy.
KARACHI: The Pakistan stock market saw a thriving Initial Public Offering (IPO) market in the FY21.
In all eight equity offerings were witnessed during the year which raised Rs20bn, the highest sum mobilised by corporates in 14 years the previous best was 12 transactions in FY07.
The eight new listings included: The Organic Meat Company, TPL Trakker Limited, Agha Steel Industries Limited, Panther Tyres Ltd, Service Global Footwear Ltd, Citi Pharma Ltd and Pakistan Aluminium Beverage Cans Ltd. The eighth was a preference share issuance of Engro Polymer and Chemicals Ltd.
Head of Research at Arif Habib Ltd Tahir Abbas said that besides the equity offerings, Bank Alfalah Ltd issued a Term Finance Certificate (TFC) during the year to raise up to Rs11bn. “Hence, total capital raised via debt plus equity IPOs stood at Rs31bn in FY21”.
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The government has anticipated that the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) will maintain its current growth trajectory in the next fiscal year starting July 1, 2021.
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