JSW Infrastructure to raise up to Rs 2,800 cr through IPO route

Ahmedabad: JSW Infrastructure, the ports business of the JSW Group has filed the DRHP for its initial public offering with SEBI on 9th May 2023. The Ports business of Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Group plans to raise upto Rs 2,800 crore through the IPO route. The company plans to deploy these funds to retire its debt as well as to fund its capacity expansion projects, the company said in its statement. 

“The JSW Infrastructure IPO is the third public listing by the JSW Group and follows 13 years after the public listing of JSW Energy in January 2010. JSW Infrastructure Promoters will not be diluting their current stake,” reads the company statement. 

As per the company statement, “JM Financial Limited, Axis Capital Limited, Credit Suisse Securities (India) Private Limited, DAM Capital Advisors Limited, HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Private Limited, ICICI Securities Limited, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited, and SBI Capital Markets Limited are the book running lead managers and KFin Technologies Limited is the registrar to the offer. The equity shares are proposed to be listed on BSE and NSE.”

The statement further said, “JSW Infrastructure has shown very strong CAGR growth in all key parameters in terms of, Cargo volume 35%, revenue 41% from Rs 1,143.15 crore in FY 2019-20 to Rs 2,273.06 crore in FY 2021-22, EBITDA 31% from Rs 713.42 crore in FY 2019-20 to Rs 1,215.11 crore in FY 2021-22 & PAT 30% from Rs 196.53 crore in FY 2019-20 to Rs 330.44 crore in FY 2021-22. For the nine months ended December 31, 2022, it handled a cargo volume of 66.70 million metric tons (MMT), revenue from operations stood at Rs 2,279.44 crore and profit after tax stood at Rs 447.24 crore, whereas EBITDA margin stood at 52.87% and has a net debt of Rs 2,875 crore.”