The record Rs 21,000 crore initial public offering (IPO) by Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) was oversubscribed by more than 2 times. As of 12:12 pm today, the IPO was booked 2.05 times as investors bid for 33.15 crore shares on the last day of subscription for India's largest public issue, compared with 16.20 crore shares on offer, exchange data showed. LIC set the initial price band at Rs 902 to Rs 949 a share.
Retail individual investors bid for 13 crore shares as against 6.9 crore shares on offer for the segment, translating into an over-subscription of 1.99 times.