Nokia Options and Networks India Pvt. on Friday divested about 1% fairness stake in Vodafone Thought Ltd., whereas Goldman Sachs picked up a 0.55% holding in telecom agency.
The community options supplier’s offloaded the stake within the debt-laden Aditya Birla Group firm for about Rs 786 crore by means of an open market transaction.
In response to NSE’s bulk deal information, Nokia Options and Networks India offered 102.70 crore shares, or a 0.95% stake in Vodafone Thought.
The shares, which have been offered for a median value of Rs 7.65 apiece, result in an combination worth of Rs 785.67 crore.
In the meantime, world funding agency Goldman Sachs picked up 59.86 crore shares, or 0.55% holding, in Vodafone Thought.
The shares have been acquired on the identical value. This took the deal worth to Rs 457.96 crore.
Nevertheless, particulars of the opposite consumers couldn’t be ascertained.
On Friday, shares of Vodafone Thought fell 5.93% to shut at Rs 7.46 per piece on the NSE.
Final 12 months, in June, the telco had introduced that it’s going to allocate shares value Rs 2,458 crore to distributors Nokia India and Ericsson India to clear their partial dues.
Pursuant to issuance of shares, the fairness stake of Nokia and Ericsson within the firm will likely be 1.5% and 0.9%, respectively.
(With PTI inputs)
