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“Homa” chained hotels to go public!

IRR 1,960 bn worth in capital, “Homa” hotels Group is to offer 10% of the shares on TSE and to be named the first of industry going public. The group is in position of 5 hotels on Tehran, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas and Mashhad with a total sum of 788 rooms. Social Security Organization is the major shareholder and they are only willing to sell 10% on the market.

Maxed out YTM!

According to the trade summaries by IFB, currently there are 18 active debt securities on the market and amid those “NIMIDCO” Musharaka is on the top of return list with a nominal rate of 23%. “Rayan Saipa” placed the second with 22% and quarterly coupon payments. The others will return between 18 to 21% and have monthly coupons.

However, the YTM on this issues has a different story. Istisna Sukuks of NIMIDCO, “SMLQ1”, if held up until the maturity, will yield 25.09 while Mashhad Municipal Musharaka has only 19.22% YTM and placed the last on the list. Sina Daroo will return 21.53% and Kaveh Kish Steel has an YTM of 20.31%.

Fifteen out of eighteen have the yield to maturity of less than 20% based on the current price levels.

The 3^rd land & construction investment fund licensed!

“Naroon” land & construction investment fund got listed on TSE, as the third of its kind on Iran’s capital market, to raise IRR 182 bn funds for Arak province “Naroon residential project”. Housing investment Co. is the landlord and Maskan Investment Bank will act the fund manager.

Arak province “Naroon residential project” has 144 units and covers 20,000 m² of area under construction.

In the Market

The stock market ended a bumpy session on a lower note with two major averages descended 0.25%. The TEDPIX (-0.25%) rallied into the early morning, but selling during the final minutes of the session drove the index down to stand on 77,287.60. Weighted TEDPIX also lost slim (-0.04%) for today, ended on 15,050.00.

 “Saipa” dominated headlines for the third day in a row. More than 250 mn shares of Auto giant changed hands and the ticker closed at IRR 1,358 with almost 74 mn purchase orders in the queue. Iran Khodro on the other hand lost near 1.5% on the closing (IRR 3,168) with a volume of 18 mn. “Zamyad” and “Bahman” followed the trend as well.

 Elsewhere, the top-weighted oil products sector finished in the lower end of the pack, masking relative weakness among the giants. Bandar Abbas and Isfahan Oil refineries were the leaders of downward trend and stamped 31.62 and 23.16 negative points on TEDPIX respectively. Tehran and Lavan oil refineries also lost big on today’s affair, whereas Tabriz and Shiraz refineries compensated for the whole sector. Near 1.6 mn shares of “PNTB1” traded today and the ticker closed at IRR 4,789 (+2.03%).

 On the metals sector, despite the fact that global prices mostly rose, 7.2 mn shares of Isfahan Mubaraka steel traded on -2.26% today and the ticker closed at IRR 1,212 and stamped -50.67 pints on the main index. Almost all other steel makers followed the trend.

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