{"id":12623,"date":"2023-06-29T03:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:54:49","slug":"public-issue-of-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/public-issue-of-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Issue of shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Public Issue of shares:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When a <strong>company raises funds by selling or issuing its equity shares to the public through an offer document<\/strong> it is called a public issue.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Initial Public Offerings (IPO):<\/strong> IPO is a type of issue where an <strong>unlisted company raises capital by making a fresh issue of securities<\/strong> or offering its existing securities for sale <strong>to the public for the first time.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Further Public Offer (FPO) \/ Follow-on Public Offer (FPO):<\/strong> When a <strong>listed company <\/strong>wants additional capital, it m<strong>akes either a fresh issue of securities or an offer for sale of existing securities to the public<\/strong> it is called a Follow-on Public Offer (FPO).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Offer for Sale (OFS):<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Institutional investors like venture funds, private equity funds etc. invest in a company at its nascent stage.<\/li>\n<li>Once the company grows bigger these investors sell their shares to the public through the issue of offer document and subsequently shares get listed on the stock exchange.<\/li>\n<li>Offer for sale (OFS) is also a <strong>special mechanism through which the promoters can sell their stake in the market.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Only promoters or shareholders holding more than 10% of the share capital in a company can come up with such an issue<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Both retail and institutional investors can invest in an OFS<\/strong> and buy shares of the Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1)\u00a0What is a Follow-on Public Offer (FPO)?<\/p>\n<p>When a listed company wants additional capital, it makes either a fresh issue of securities or an offer for sale of existing securities to the public; it is called a Follow-on Public Offer (FPO).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bqprime.com\/markets\/sebi-halves-public-issue-listing-time-to-three-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>SEBI Halves Public Issue Listing Time To Three Days<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a company raises funds by selling or issuing its equity shares to the public through an offer document it is called a public issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}