Overview
- Service Long March Tyres listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Monday, raising a record Rs7.78 billion while its shares rose to the daily 10% limit in first-day trading.
- The IPO drew Rs85 billion in bids, with the institutional book fully subscribed in five seconds and closing 16.7-times oversubscribed while retail demand was 7.6-times oversubscribed.
- SLM’s final strike price was set at Rs19.95, giving the company a post-listing market value of about Rs155 billion and contributing to the Servis Group’s combined market capitalisation topping $1 billion.
- Management said proceeds will help build a new passenger-car tyre production line with capacity for 2 million tyres and an aim to start commercial production by December 2027, plus an extra $120 million of planned investment.
- Officials framed the debut as the first Pakistan–China joint-venture listing on the PSX and a sign of deeper capital-market momentum, with the exchange reporting a surge in unique investor numbers and the most IPOs in a fiscal year in nearly two decades.