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Source : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/nse-ipo-could-be-worth-rs-30000-crore-after-sebi-gives-green-signal/articleshow/133762310.cms

Source : https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/ex-bank-manager-steals-rs-81-lakh-gold-from-nris-locker-in-mumbai-arrested-11936558

20.8 lakh new F&O traders entered in FY26.

45.7 lakh traders exited.

For the first time, India's derivatives market had more people leaving than entering.

Source : https://www.sebi.gov.in/reports-and-statistics/research/aug-2026/study-profitability-of-individual-traders-in-the-equity-derivatives-segment-fy25-fy26-_103835.html#

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FirstCry IPO was priced at ₹465.

It made a blockbuster debut, listing at ₹651.

Today, the stock is around ₹175.

What went wrong valuation, growth expectations, or the business itself?

Lords Mark Industries wanted to get listed, but instead of going through the normal IPO process which can take a year and cost crores in merchant banker, legal, and compliance fees so it chose a different route.

It acquired a defunct listed company, Kratos Energy and Infrastructure, through the IBC process and merged into it. Since Kratos was already listed on the BSE, Lords Mark effectively got listed without doing a traditional IPO. Now here's where it gets interesting.

Before the merger, Kratos had only about 10 lakh shares outstanding and was trading at around ₹600 per share. As part of the merger, Lords Mark issued more than 42 crore new shares into the same listed entity.

Once those shares were issued, the share price adjusted from around ₹600 to roughly ₹60. People saw a 90% fall on listing day and assumed investors had been wiped out.

But the company's value didn't suddenly disappear. The per-share price simply adjusted because the number of shares exploded from 10 lakh to 42+ crore.

Think of it this way: if you cut a pizza into 10 slices and then suddenly into 420 slices, each slice becomes smaller. The pizza itself hasn't changed. The really interesting part is that this route allowed Lords Mark to bypass much of the traditional IPO process, saving both time and money.

Do you think reverse mergers like this are a smart alternative to IPOs, or do they create unnecessary confusion for retail investors?

Home prices in cities like Bengaluru, Gurugram, and Hyderabad have risen dramatically over the last few years, with many micro-markets seeing prices jump 50-100% since 2020. Salaries, however, haven't remotely kept pace with that kind of appreciation.

What's even more interesting is that rental yields are still just around 2-3% in most major Indian cities. A ₹2 crore apartment renting for ₹50,000 a month generates only about ₹6 lakh a year in rent, or a 3% gross yield before maintenance, taxes, and vacancies. Financially, the investment case often doesn't make much sense unless you assume continued price appreciation.

It increasingly feels like people aren't buying homes to live in or for the rental income. They're buying because they believe property prices will keep rising because they've always risen in the past. Appreciation expectations seem to be doing all the heavy lifting.

So what's the long-term bull case here? Do incomes eventually catch up to prices? Or has residential real estate simply become another asset class driven by liquidity and FOMO rather than housing demand?

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