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Braving the sharp fall in prices, some of the mutual funds (MFs) have increased their stake in beaten-down FSN e-Commerce Ventures (Nykaa) shares in the December quarter in an attempt to average their holding cost.
Most schemes of fund houses including ICICI Pru MF, Motilal Oswal MF, Sundaram MF, Nippon MF, Mirae MF, Aditya Birla MF and UTI MF had bought more shares during the December quarter.
Buying stems slide
In fact, the large-scale buying of the fund houses had arrested the downfall in share price late last year. The share price have been on a downward spiral ever since the company announced a bonus of five shares for every one share held in November.
After closing at ₹1,076 on November 9, Nykaa shares listed at ₹188 ex-bonus on the next day. It touched a high of ₹345 in January, but came under selling pressure ever since and closed at ₹129 on Thursday.
FSN e-Commerce Ventures initial public offering in October, 2021, had raised ₹2,396 crore from anchor investors by issuing each share at ₹1,125. Leading fund houses, including Aditya Birla Sun Life MF, SBI MF, HDFC MF, Axis MF, UTI MF, Sundaram MF and Tata MF had subscribed to the anchor issue which came with the mandatory lock-in.
After the lock-in expiry in November, a number of pre-IPO investors liquidated their investment. Earlier, NRI investor Mala Gopal Gaonkar had sold 5.75 crore shares at an average price of ₹175 in a deal worth ₹1,009 crore. Lighthouse India Fund-III had also sold shares worth ₹525 crore. Kravis Investment Partners II sold 36.7 million shares, at an average price of ₹171, worth ₹629 crore via multiple block deals. Other sellers in the past included Segantii India Mauritius and American private equity firm TPG.
MF investors should not get jittery on the fall in a specific stock price in a large portfolio of a particular MF scheme, said an analyst.
The fund manager would have taken the call to accumulate the stock based on his own judgement and then prevailing investment opportunity. Nykaa, with its leading scale, reach and broad product range, is a rare combination of profitability and sustainable exponential growth, as it pegged its revenue to double every two-three years over the coming decade, he added.
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