Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) registered maximum return among them in a short span of time. The only catering and ticket services provider to railways clocked 190 percent rally in just two-and-half-month.
Affle (India), a mobile marketing company, was the second-biggest gainer with 116 percent return in nearly five months, followed by e-commerce company IndiaMart InterMesh which shot up 112 percent in six months.
Gaurav Sood, Co-Head Equity Capital Markets, ICICI Securities told Moneycontrol."Investors gave thumbs up to thematic IPOs across sectors ranging from technology, hospitality, microfinance, consumer, healthcare, etc. Overall, investors continued to chase companies with a distinguished track record of operating and financial performance backed by strong corporate governance,"
After the top three, the next four stocks were also created wealth for investors as they gained more than 50 percent of their issue price. Wire & cable manufacturer company Polycab India rallied 84 percent, Neogen Chemicals gained 68.6 percent, diagnostic services provider Metropolis Healthcare climbed 63 percent and Vishwaraj Sugar Industries surged 50.08 percent during the year.
There are six more stocks which also did not disappoint investors as they have given a 15-50 percent return, which was far higher than Nifty50 (rising nearly 13 percent this year) and Nifty Midcap (which lost 4.5 percent).
These six stocks are Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Spandana Sphoorty Financial, Chalet Hotels, MSTC, Rail Vikas Nigam and CSB Bank. However, a few stocks disappointed the Street - Prince Pipes & Fittings (listed on December 30 and lost 6.4 percent) and Sterling & Wilson Solar (shed 60 percent).
In the case of Sterling, the major loss occurred after its promoters deferred debt repayment. Xelpmoc Design & Tech, which the small issue in size (Rs 23 crore), lost 4.5 percent this year.
These 16 companies in total raised Rs 12,361.56 crore through public issues with Sterling & Wilson (Rs 2,850 crore), Chalet Hotels (Rs 1,641 crore), Polycab India (Rs 1,345 crore), Metropolis Healthcare (Rs 1,204 crore) and Spandana Sphoorty (Rs 1,190 crore) being the biggest IPOs this year.
With the start of optimism after government measures, most experts expect the next year i.e. 2020 to be better for the primary market than 2019 as they feel a lot of big IPOs including SBI Cards, UTI AMC, etc are going to hit the capital market and the amount they in total raised is expected to be nearly double.
Siddhartha Khemka, Senior Vice President | Head-Retail Research at Motilal Oswal Financial Services said, "A lot of new issues (IPOs) are lined up in 2020, some of which could have the potential to create long term wealth."
