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Underpricing in Fintech

firms
Initial Public Offerings – The process
Market
IPO transactions
participants

Selection of
Issuer investment
banks

Share
Investment
allocation
banks
mechanism

Greenshoe
provision and
Investors
lockup
agreement
IPO Pricing approaches

Pricing
approaches

Book
Fixed price
building
issue
issue
Under pricing – Concepts, evidence & explanations

Under pricing
explanations
• Institutional
Quantitative explanations
evidence • Analyst compensation
• Overwhelming evidence theory
Under pricing of underpricing
• Financial anomalies • Book building vs Fixed
• Positive first day returns price IPOs
Assignment 1 – Underpricing in Fintech
firms
• Source the data from NSE (
https://www.nseindia.com/market-data/all-upcoming-issues-ipo) for
the past 10 years
• Test for the underpricing differences between the Fintech firms and
the Non-fintech firms
• Use size, leverage and the profitability (ROA) as an independent
factors
• Prepare a report based on your analysis (ppt)
• Due date – 25/12/2022 (11:59 PM)

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