IPO of Union Life Insurance Opening Today; Everything You Need To Know About the Company

Thu, Jul 8, 2021 5:01 AM on IPO/FPO News, Company Analysis, Exclusive,

Company Information:

Union Life Insurance Company Limited (ULICL) is a public limited life insurance company (LIC), operating since July 2017. Its head office is in New Baneswor, Kathmandu. The company has an equity investment of multiple business houses in Nepal such as Jagadamba group, Golchha Organization, Gadiya group, Neupane group, Rajesh Hardware group & Tibrewala Group.

As of mid-July 2020, the major shareholders of ULICL include, Mr. Shekhar Golcha (~19.9%), Mr. Sahil Agrawal (~19.9%) Mr. Sulav Agrawal (~18%), Mr. Sandip Kumar Agrawal (~6.6%), Mr. Rahul Kumar Agrawal (~6.6%), and Mr. Sharad Kumar Tibrewala (~6.6%) among others.

About the Issue:

Union Life Insurance Company Limited issuing 6,450,000 units of ordinary shares worth Rs. 64.5 crores to the general public from Ashad-24, 2078. The early closing date of this IPO issue is on Ashad-28, 2077 and if the issue is not subscribed till Ashad-28 then this issue can be extended up to Shrawan-7, 2078.

Out of offered 6,450,000 units; 5% of the issued capital i.e., 322,500 units have been allotted for the employees of the company and 5% of the total capital has been allotted for the mutual funds. The remaining 5,805,000 units are for the general public.

Applications can be placed for a minimum of 10 units and a maximum of 32,250 units.

Prabhu Capital Limited has been appointed as the issue manager for the IPO issuance.

The paid-up capital will reach Rs. 2.15 Arba after the issuance of the public shares. After the IPO issue; public holding will be 30% and promoters holding will be 70%.

Union Life Insurance Company Limited

 

Percentage

Units

Amount (Rs.)

Total Capital

100%

15,050,000

1,505,000,000

Total Issue

30%

6,450,000

645,000,000

Employees

5% of IPO Units

322,500

32,250,000

Mutual Fund

5% of IPO Units

322,500

32,250,000

Public

-

5,805,000

580,500,000

Issue Manager

Prabhu Capital Limited

   

Issue open date

Ashad-24 2078

   

Issue closing date (earliest)

Ashad- 28 2078

   

Issue closing date (late)

Shrawan-07, 2078

   

Minimum application

10

   

Maximum application

32,250

   

Credit Rating:

ICRA Nepal has assigned the issuer rating of [ICRANP-IR] BBB(pronounced ICRA NP Issuer Rating triple B) to UnionLife Insurance Company Limited (ULICL). Issuers with this rating are considered to have a moderate degree of safety regarding timely servicing of financial obligations.

Grading Strengths:

  • Adequate branch and agency network, experienced management and ownership
  • Product mix dominated by endowment products; good policy continuation rate
  • Adequate reinsurance arrangement
  • Progressive profitability supported by investment earnings

Grading Challenges:

  • Limited track record and therefore untested underwriting controls
  • Suboptimal solvency margin
  • impact of an ongoing covid-19 pandemic on the life insurance industry

(SOURCE: ICRA Nepal)

Capital Structure:

Capital Structure

Authorized capital

2,150,000,000

Issued capital

2,150,000,000

Current paid-up capital

1,505,000,000

Paid-up capital after issuance of IPO

2,150,000,000


Shareholding Structure:

Shareholding Structure

 

Number of shares

Amount

Percentage

Remarks

Promoters

15,050,000

1,505,000,000

70%

Already issued

General Public

6,450,000

645,000,000

30%

To be issued

Total

21,500,000

2,150,000,000

100%

-

Board of Directors:

Board Of Directors

S.N

Name

Position

1

Mr. Sulav Agrawal

Chairman

2

Mr. Sandeep Kumar Agrawal

Director

3

Mr. Jeewan Kumar Agrawal

Director

4

Mr. Debi Prasad Sharma

Director

5

Mrs. Sima Golchha

Director


Management Team:

Management Team

S.N

Name

Position

1

Manoj Kumar Lal Karna

Chief Executive Officer

2

Kapil Kumar Dahal

DCEO/Information Officer

3

Madhav Prasad Sharma

DGM

4

Ram Shrestha

Head- Underwriting Department

5

Ishwar Kumar Sedai

Company Secretary

6

Rabin Shrestha

Head-IT Department

7

Surya Bahadur Bogati

Head-Finance

8

Ritendra Lal Karna

Head-Agency Department

9

Prakash Neupane

Head-HR/Admin

10

Geeta Shrestha

Head-Corporate Marketing

11

Hark Bahadur Budhathoki

Head-Training Department

12

Bhuparaj Parajuli

Province Head-Province 1

13

Hari Prasad Dhungana

Province Head-Province 3

14

Tulk Nath Acharya

Province Head-Province 4

15

Bhoj Kumar Kunwar

Province Head-Province 5

16

Narayan Pangeni

Province Head-Province 6

17

Chandra Bahadur Bohara

Province Head-Province 7


Use of funds:

S.N

Particulars

Amount

1

Investment in Bonds/Debentures

161,250,000

2

Fixed Deposit in Commercial Bank

258,000,000

3

Fixed Deposit in Development Bank

96,750,000

4

Fixed Deposit in Microfinance Companies

64,500,000

5

Investment in Public Limited Companies

64,500,000

Total

645,000,000


Financial Highlights:

Particulars

Acutal

Estimated*

2074/2075

2075/2076

2076/2077*

2077/2078

2078/2079

2079/2080

Paid-up capital ('000)

1,505,000.00

1,505,000.00

1,505,000.00

2,150,000.00

2,150,000.00

2,150,000.00

Reserves & Surplus ('000)

80,181.15

204,963.58

656,455.07

706,679.17

827,233.52

996,721.37

Contingent Fund ('000)

8,909.02

22,773.73

72,939.45

78,519.91

91,914.84

110,746.82

Insurance Fund ('000)

400,966.70

2,208,570.58

4,364,129.33

9,130,008.62

18,854,165.38

34,823,450.18

Net Profit ('000)

76,599.90

138,647.15

501,657.21

89,574.74

133,949.28

188,319.83

Earnings per share (Rs.)

5.09

9.21

33.33

4.17

6.23

8.76

Net worth per share (Rs.)

105.92

115.13

148.46

136.52

142.75

151.51

Return on Equity (%)

4.81%

8.00%

22.45%

3.05%

4.36%

5.78%


How much to apply?

The total shares floated by Union Life Insurance Company Limited is 6,450,000 units, of which only 5,805,000 units are available to the general public after the allocation of shares to staff and mutual funds.

If we see the recently concluded IPO of previous issued IPO's, a total of more than 20 lakh applicants applied for the company IPO and we assume that the same or even more craze prevails in Union Life's IPO too. Since the 10 kitta rule exists for IPO; 5,80,500 applicants will be lucky enough to get the shares of Union Life Insurance Company Limited.

Hence, if the same number of applicants (or more) who applied for the previous IPO apply for this issue then there is a high probability of lottery for 10 units. Since the minimum unit is 10, it is advisable to apply only 10 units in the IPO issue of Union Life Insurance Company Limited.