Kanohar Electricals Limited IPO — the disclosed details
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Kanohar Electricals Limited's IPO opens 8 September 2026 and closes 10 September 2026, bidding at Rs 601-632 per share; the Red Herring Prospectus is dated 2 September 2026.
This issue's bidding window has closed. What follows is the record of what was disclosed while the offer was open. It is not updated after the close, and it is not a view on the company or on how the shares have traded since.
This page restates what Kanohar Electricals Limited has filed for its initial public offering — the Red Herring Prospectus dated 2 September 2026 — as filed, with no added opinion. If the vocabulary is new — DRHP, price band, buckets, allotment — read how an Indian IPO actually works first.
What the company does
Kanohar Electricals Limited (CIN U31909UP1972PLC003635) is a Meerut, Uttar Pradesh-headquartered transformer manufacturer. Citing a CARE Analytics and Advisory report the Company commissioned and paid for, the RHP describes Kanohar as one of the leading domestic players in transformer manufacturing by revenue in Fiscal 2026, and one of only five companies in India holding short-circuit test certification for 500 MVA 400 kV transformers used in power transmission. It is also one of four Indian manufacturers certified by the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO, Indian Railways’ R&D arm) to make 100 MVA 132 kV Scott transformers, and one of two certified for 100 MVA 220 kV Scott transformers.
The Company operates two segments: Transformer Manufacturing, and an EPC business undertaking turnkey installation of substations (air- and gas-insulated, up to 400 kV class) and transmission lines across 132–400 kV. Its Registered and Corporate Office is at Rithani, Delhi Road, Meerut. The Promoters are Dinesh Singhal (Chairman & Managing Director, IIT Roorkee graduate, 40+ years in transformer manufacturing), Adesh Singhal, Vivek Singhal, Abhishek Singhal, Virat Singhal, Aditya Singhal and the K Sons Family Trust.
A fact worth noting for context, stated on the RHP’s cover: Kanohar’s Equity Shares were listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Delhi Stock Exchange and the Uttar Pradesh Stock Exchange between October and November 1995, then voluntarily delisted from all three between July and October 2010, citing low liquidity and trading volumes. This Offer is a fresh listing, not a relisting of those shares.
What the money is for
The offer totals up to approximately Rs 1,056 crore as reported at the price-band cap, in two parts: a Fresh Issue of up to Rs 300.00 crore, and an Offer for Sale of a fixed count of up to 1,19,57,915 Equity Shares by the Promoter Selling Shareholder. Only the Fresh Issue is proceeds to the Company; the Offer for Sale money goes to the selling shareholder, not to the Company. The RHP fixes the Fresh Issue in rupees and the Offer for Sale in shares, so the total depends on the Offer Price once set.
| Object of the fresh issue | Amount (₹ crore; the RHP states these in Rs million, converted here) |
|---|---|
| Capital expenditure — new machinery at the Gangol Manufacturing Facility, civil construction/interior work there, plus solar power plants and electric handling vehicles across both facilities | 64.18 |
| Funding incremental working capital requirements | 155.00 |
| General corporate purposes | Balance of Net Proceeds, not exceeding 25% of Gross Proceeds |
| Selling shareholder | Category | Equity Shares offered | Weighted average acquisition cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| K Sons Family Trust | Promoter Selling Shareholder | Up to 1,19,57,915 | Nil |
Acquisition cost is per the RHP, certified by Pawan Shubham & Co., Chartered Accountants, in a certificate dated 2 September 2026.
What the RHP flags as risks
The RHP lists these among the Company’s own risk factors, paraphrased here without added commentary:
- Revenue is concentrated in the Transformer Manufacturing segment, with EPC as the smaller of the two business lines; a reduction in transformer demand would disproportionately affect the business.
- Customer concentration. The top 10 customers together accounted for a majority of revenue from operations in the fiscals reported, with Customer 1 alone contributing 31.28% of revenue from operations in Fiscal 2026.
- Tender and government-counterparty dependence. A significant portion of revenue depends on tenders awarded by government-controlled entities, and the Company is exposed to the risk of disqualification, suspension or blacklisting by government authorities.
- Manufacturing and geographic concentration. A significant portion of revenue is generated from the Company’s Manufacturing Facilities (notably the Gangol facility), and its business is concentrated in Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat, Bihar and other named states.
- Raw-material supplier dependence, with no long-term agreements in place for procurement.
- 34 public shareholders are currently untraceable. They collectively hold 2,08,000 Equity Shares (including 1,56,000 shares from a bonus issue on 19 September 2025) that the Company has been unable to credit to their demat accounts despite multiple attempts; these shares sit in an “Unclaimed Security Suspense Escrow Account” and will carry the standard six-month post-Allotment lock-in once credited.
The numbers as filed
| Item | As filed |
|---|---|
| Face value | Rs 2 per Equity Share |
| Price band | Rs 601 (floor) – Rs 632 (cap) per share (as reported; not fixed in the RHP itself) |
| Fresh issue | Up to Rs 300.00 crore |
| Offer for Sale | Up to 1,19,57,915 Equity Shares |
| Aggregate issue size | Up to ~Rs 1,056 Cr (as reported) |
| Lot size | 23 Equity Shares |
| Minimum retail investment | Rs 14,536 for 1 lot at the cap price |
The RHP itself leaves the Offer Price, the exact Fresh Issue share count and the aggregate Offer value as blanks, to be filled in once the Offer Price is fixed through the Book Building Process. The Rs 601–632 band is as reported by Chittorgarh, not stated as a number in the RHP itself. At the Rs 632 cap, the Fresh Issue works out to approximately 47,46,835 shares (Rs 300.00 crore ÷ Rs 632), which combined with the fixed 1,19,57,915-share Offer for Sale gives a total offer of approximately 1,67,04,750 shares — matching the ~Rs 1,056 Cr aggregate size reported by trackers.
Restated financials, as filed in the RHP:
| Particulars (₹ crore; the RHP states these in Rs million, converted here) | FY2026 | FY2025 | FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue from operations | 653.84 | 450.61 | 276.69 |
| Profit for the year (PAT) | 129.73 | 65.12 | 17.76 |
Who can actually sell on listing day
The RHP’s lock-in schedule determines who is free to sell Kanohar Electricals shares on the day the stock lists. Note that the Offer for Sale shares come out of the Promoter Trust’s own pre-Offer holding — the Trust is both the near-entire pre-Offer shareholder and the Selling Shareholder.
| Who | Locked for, per this RHP |
|---|---|
| Minimum Promoter’s Contribution (20% of post-Offer capital) | 18 months from the date of Allotment |
| Promoter Trust’s holding above the 20% minimum | 6 months from the date of Allotment |
| All other pre-Offer shareholders (non-promoter, non-OFS) | 6 months from the date of Allotment, with carve-outs for VCF/AIF (Category I or II)/FVCI holdings, which instead lock 6 months from their own date of purchase |
| Anchor Investors | 50% of shares allotted locked 90 days from Allotment; the remaining 50% locked 30 days from Allotment |
The figures below are this page’s own computation, combining the RHP’s fixed Offer for Sale share count with the as-reported Rs 632 cap price, since the RHP itself leaves the Fresh Issue share count and post-Offer capital as blanks pending the Offer Price:
| Step | Shares (computed at Rs 632 cap) | % of post-issue capital |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh issue (computed) | 47,46,835 | 5.99% |
| Offer for Sale (fixed, from the Promoter Trust’s holding) | 1,19,57,915 | 15.10% |
| Total offer | 1,67,04,750 | 21.10% |
| Less: anchor allotment, locked 30/90 days | −50,11,424 | −6.33% |
| = Sellable on listing day | 1,16,93,326 | 14.77% |
| Locked or not offered — the rest of the register (remaining Promoter Trust holding + other pre-Offer holders) | 6,74,93,509 | 85.23% |
| Post-issue capital (computed) | 7,91,86,835 | 100.00% |
The anchor book is done — 50,11,424 Equity Shares at Rs 632, aggregating Rs 3,16,72,19,968 (about Rs 316.72 crore), across 42 anchor investors, allotted on Monday, 7 September 2026, per the Company’s anchor-allocation intimation letter to the BSE and NSE Listing Departments. Within that, the letter records 27,88,267 Equity Shares (55.64% of the anchor allocation) to 11 domestic mutual funds across 19 schemes, and 5,53,840 Equity Shares (11.05%) to 5 life insurance companies and pension funds. The allotment is about 6.33% of post-issue capital, locked 30/90 days per the schedule above; it comes out of the 21.10% “Total offer” figure and is already deducted in the table above, not added to it.
A lock-in is not a forecast of anything — it is a restriction on selling; it says who may trade, not what the price will do.
This table reflects the RHP dated 2 September 2026, as of 3 September 2026, with the anchor allocation updated 8 September 2026, and the derived figures above are this page’s own arithmetic, not numbers stated as such in the RHP.
Dates and mechanics
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Anchor Investor bidding | Monday, 7 September 2026 |
| Bid/Offer opens | Tuesday, 8 September 2026 |
| Bid/Offer closes (UPI mandate confirmation by 5:00 p.m.) | Thursday, 10 September 2026 |
| Finalisation of Basis of Allotment with the Designated Stock Exchange | On or about Friday, 11 September 2026 |
| Allotment / credit to demat accounts; initiation of refunds and ASBA unblock | On or about Tuesday, 15 September 2026 |
| Listing on BSE and NSE | On or about Wednesday, 16 September 2026 |
| Bucket | Share of the Offer |
|---|---|
| Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIB) | Not more than 50% |
| — of which, Anchor Investor Portion (discretionary) | Up to 60% of the QIB Portion |
| — Net QIB Portion reserved for Mutual Funds | 5% of the Net QIB Portion |
| Non-Institutional Bidders (NII) | Not less than 15% (one-third for bids >Rs 2,00,000 up to Rs 10,00,000; two-thirds for bids >Rs 10,00,000) |
| Retail Individual Bidders (RIB) | Not less than 35% |
Book Running Lead Manager: IIFL Capital Services Limited. Registrar: MUFG Intime India Private Limited.
How to read this page
Link back to the explainer: how an Indian IPO actually works covers the buckets, the allotment lottery, the T+3 timeline, and the general lock-in framework behind the listing-day-float section above.
Information as of 3 Sep 2026, with the anchor allocation updated 8 Sep 2026, taken from the RHP linked above. This is not an IPO review and no subscribe/avoid rating is given. Figures move through the issue lifecycle — check the filed documents before acting on any of them. Grey-market premium is an unofficial, unregulated price with no exchange record, and is not referenced here as information. Where the standing notice below refers to hypothetical figures, that covers the illustrative worked examples used in the options posts on this site — every number on this page is reproduced from the filed documents cited above.
This post is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security or derivative contract. The author is not a SEBI-registered Research Analyst or Investment Adviser. Futures and options trading carries a high risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor — you can lose your entire premium, and more when selling naked. All figures and examples in this post, including the rupee premiums and price levels, are hypothetical and used only to illustrate the framework; they are not predictions, return promises, performance claims, or a recommendation to trade any specific instrument. Lot sizes and premiums change over time — always check current exchange data before trading. Please consult a SEBI-registered investment adviser before making any investment decisions.
Sources
- Red Herring Prospectus dated 2 Sep 2026 (hosted by IIFL Capital Services, book running lead manager) -- fetched and fully processed this session (pdftotext-equivalent full-text extraction, 29,923 lines) →
- Chittorgarh -- Kanohar Electricals IPO page (as reported: price band, lot size, dates cross-check) →
- Kanohar Electricals Limited -- anchor-allocation intimation letter to the BSE/NSE Listing Departments (primary; 6-page PDF fetched and text-extracted this session): TOTAL 50,11,424 Equity Shares at Rs 632, Rs 3,16,72,19,968, across 42 anchor investors, allotted 7 Sep 2026 →
- BusinessToday, 8 Sep 2026 -- anchor allocation (secondary, corroboration): Rs 316.72 crore from 42 anchor investors, 50,11,424 shares at Rs 632, finalised 7 Sep 2026 →
Common questions
How does IPO allotment work?
Applications are matched against the minimum lot size within each investor category (retail, HNI, QIB). In the retail category every applicant is first considered for one minimum lot: when the retail portion has enough shares to give every retail applicant one lot, everyone gets at least one and the surplus goes proportionately to those who bid more. Only when there aren't enough shares for one lot each is a computerised draw of lots used to pick who gets that single lot — and then each successful applicant gets exactly one lot, however many they bid for. It is never first-come-first-served, so applying early doesn't improve the odds.
What does the anchor investor lock-in mean?
Anchor investors (institutions allotted shares a day before the issue opens) are locked in and can't sell for a fixed period — and the clock runs from the date of Allotment, not from listing. Under the SEBI ICDR Regulations, 50% of the anchor shares are locked for 90 days from Allotment and the remaining 50% for 30 days from Allotment. It restricts anchors only; it says nothing about how retail-held shares will trade.
When do I get my money back if I'm not allotted?
Under ASBA, your bank only blocks the funds in your account — it's never debited until allotment. If you get no shares (or only a partial allotment), the block is released without any separate refund step: SEBI requires your bank (the SCSB) to complete the unblock by the close of banking hours on the working day after the basis of allotment is finalised — under the T+3 timeline, the day before the shares list. If it takes longer than that, SEBI's compensation policy provides ₹100 per day or 15% per annum of the application amount, whichever is higher — but it is complaint-triggered, so you have to raise it with your bank or the issue's lead manager to claim it.
What is ASBA / the UPI mandate?
ASBA (Application Supported by Blocked Amount) blocks the bid amount in your bank account instead of debiting it upfront. Retail investors bidding through UPI approve a mandate request in their UPI app, which blocks the funds — the money leaves your account only if shares are actually allotted.
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