New Delhi, February 16 Shares of AI solutions provider Fractal Analytics made a lackluster market debut on Monday, listing at a discount of nearly 3 percent against the issue price of ₹900.
The stock listed at ₹876, a decline of 2.67 percent from the issue price on the NSE. Later, it fell further by 4.94 percent to ₹855.55.
On the BSE, the shares made a flat debut, opening at ₹900 per share.
Following its listing, the company's market valuation stood at ₹14,839.73 crore on the NSE.
Meanwhile, the equity markets are trading in the positive territory, with the 30-share BSE Sensex rising by 185.88 points, or 0.22 percent, to 82,812.64 in the morning trade. The NSE Nifty went up 57.50 points, or 0.23 percent, to 25,528.60.
Last week, Fractal Analytics' initial public offering (IPO) was 2.66 times on the final day of bidding.
The company had fixed the price band at ₹857 to ₹900 per share.
The ₹2,834-crore IPO is a mix of a fresh issue of equity shares worth up to ₹1,023.5 crore and an offer for sale of ₹1,810.4 crore. The firm had earlier scaled down its IPO size from ₹4,900 crore it had initially proposed in its draft papers filed in August last year.
Proceeds from the fresh issue will be used to invest in its subsidiary, Fractal USA, for debt repayment, purchase laptops, set up new offices in India, invest in research and development, support sales and marketing under Fractal Alpha, fund acquisitions and other strategic initiatives, and for general corporate purposes.
Founded in 2000 by Srikanth Velamakanni and Pranay Agrawal, Fractal Analytics is a pure-play data and artificial intelligence (AI) company and has domain expertise spanning across consumer packaged goods & retail, technology, media and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and banking, financial services and insurance.
It supports large global enterprises across multiple industry verticals and business functions with data-driven insights and assists in decision-making through end-to-end AI solutions.
As of March 31, 2025, the firm serves global companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla.
