For the fiscal year 2078/79, Asian Life Insurance Company Limited (ALICL) has proposed a dividend of 8.947% worth Rs. 26.01 Crores.
The board of directors decided today (Falgun 30) to distribute 8.50% bonus shares and a 0.447% cash dividend (for tax purposes). The value of the bonus shares is Rs. 24.71 crores, and the cash dividend is slightly more than Rs. 1.30 crores. ALICL’s current paid-up capital is Rs. 2.90 Arba.
The Securities Exchange Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved Rawa Energy Development Limited’s proposed initial public offering (IPO) on Falgun 25.
The company will now issue 840,000 equity shares at NPR 100 per share. The issue is worth Rs. 8.4 crore. This is equivalent to 30% of the company’s issued capital. The company’s total paid-up capital following the IPO allotment would be Rs 28 crores.
Prabhu Capital Limited has been appointed as the proposed IPO’s issue manager.
The NEPSE index closed at 1,938.62 today, down 14.44 points from the previous trading day’s close. This represents a 0.74% decrease. Yesterday, the index rose 1.85 points.
The index opened today at 1,953.96 and reached an intraday high of 1,956.37. In contrast, it dropped as low as 1,926.57 before closing at 1,938.62.
For the first eight months of the current fiscal year 2079/80, the government’s budget deficit exceeded Rs. 1.56 Kharba. By the end of Falgun, the government had spent 7.79 Kharba of its budget, but had only collected 6.22 Kharba in total revenue.
Meanwhile, only 22.15% of capital expenditure (CAPEX) is used until the end of Falgun’s fiscal year 2079/80.
The government’s capital expenditure is the money spent on the development of physical assets. In Nepal, the capital budget is funded by balancing domestic revenue after the recurrent budget, grants, and loans have been met. According to the Financial Comptroller General Office, only Rs. 84.25 Arba of the capital budget has been spent out of the targeted budget of Rs. 3.80 Kharba.
The IME Life Insurance Company Limited Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been added to SEBON’s IPO pipeline for approval.
The company intends to sell 12 million unit shares to the general public for Rs. 276 each (Rs 100 face value + Rs 176 premium price). The company will raise a total of Rs. 3.312 billion through the IPO.
Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (NEPSE) has made a test version of a virtual trade management system (simulator) available in order to introduce prospective investors to the technology.
The main concern is, “How does NEPSE’s online method work?” This method was implemented with the goal of educating people and providing useful information.