Wednesday, May 30, 2007

JSW Steel to raise USD 325 million via FCCB

JSW Steel has lined up USD 325 million FCCB programme, priced at a premium of 50% over yesterday's close.

The FCCB issue is for USD 325 million with the conversion price of Rs 953.40 per share and the conversion price is at 50% premium over yesterday's close. This hasn’t come as a big surprise as it was mentioned in their result press conference that the company is looking to raise money via FCCB or ADR route.

Their 5-year, zero coupon convertibles are at annual YTM of 7.25%. The company is also looking to list on Singapore Stock Exchange and the closing date is on June 27 with ABN AMRO, Rothschild and Citigroup as joint book runners. The conversion price of Rs 953.40 per share would lead to an equity dilution of 7.8%.

The company is raising money for capex plan and is looking at increasing capacity from 3.8 mtpa to 10 mtpa by September 2010. The company has announced a capex of Rs 7,000 crore for expansion plans out of which Rs 2,000 crore is through internal accruals while Rs 5,000 crore will be financed via debt and quasi-debt instruments.

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