How are IPO shares allotted ?
Recently , we are seeing huge demand in IPO from retail investors , unfortunately many are not getting any allotment . Why this happens ? let us know how exactly IPO shares are allotted . What is the IPO or Initial Public offer : IPO is the selling of securities to the public in the primary market. A primary market deals with new securities being issued for the first time . After listing on the stock exchange, the company becomes a publicly-traded company and the shares of the firm can be traded freely in the open market. Procedure for allotment of shares in IPO If any company goes in public all bids for the shares in online , from online first they eliminate all invalid bids which were incorrectly submitted from number of total bids , then we will know number of final bids. There are two cases amongst which the situation of a company may fall in, that are: 1 If the total number of bids made by the applicants is less tha...