Indian Oil Corporation sell stake to ONGC and
Oil India. Both ONGC and Oil India has bought 5% stake in Indian Oil corporation.
This stake sell yielded Rs. 5340 Crore to Government disinvestment program.
Investors generally fells that Oil India hasn’t
sell their stake in Open Market then how government gets that amount under
disinvestment target???
Answer for the that question is that Oil India
and ONGC jointly paid Rs. 5340 Crore which will leads to reduced oil Subsidy
burden on Indian Oil corporation.
This deal happens at Rs. 220 /Share. With this
transaction ONGC stake rises to 13.77% and Oil India now has 5% stake.
Investors may also think when they haven’t
gone for Offer for sale???
Initially Government has decided to go for
offer for sale but they reluctant to go for as they think that current Stock
price of IOC don’t justify the valuations. Also previous OFS don’t have good
response as ONGC OFS get failed and LIC bought at last moment for success of
ONGC OFS.
This is right way of Disinvestment as Cash
rich PSU’S will buy stakes in other PSU as earlier Government has eroded Investors
value through OFS at Lower prices.