Blue Dart slips as offer for sale price is at a steep discount

Mumbai: Shares of logistics service provider Blue Dart Express today slumped more than 10 percent in early trade on bourses after its promoter set the floor price for its offer for sale at a steep discount to the current market price.

DHL Express (Singapore) has fixed a price of Rs 1,720 per share, a discount of 16 percent to yesterday’s closing price, for sale of 6.03 percent stake in its subsidiary Blue Dart Express. The stake sale could fetch the company at least Rs 246.29 crore.

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Reacting to the announcement, shares of the company opened with a weak note at Rs 2,045.00 then lost further ground and tanked 10.53 percent to touch an early low of Rs 1,840 on the BSE.

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A similar movement was seen on the NSE, where the stock opened at Rs 2,012, then fell 8.95 percent to an early low of Rs 1,875.10.

DHL Express (Singapore), which holds 81.03 percent stake in Blue Dart Express as on September-end, would sell 14.32 lakh shares in the company tomorrow.

Market regulator Sebi has earlier this year made it

mandatory for the promoters of listed companies to prune their holding to a maximum of 75 percent by June next year so that a minimum 25 percent public shareholding can be maintained in listed private companies.

Blue Dart said a minimum of 25 percent of the offer will be reserved for allocation to insurance companies and mutual funds.

PTI