Investors Response to Initial Public Offering in Nepal
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Central Department of Management
Abstract
This paper concerns themes with Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the Nepalese capital
market. The tremendous increase in the public companies has also embraced IPOs in the same
pace. Initial public offering is the most phenomenal event of an organization. IPOs are the
normally issued by small and new companies who are in need of capita to expand their business,
but sometimes large companies also issue them for publictrading.IPOs is found to be
oversubscribed specially in the case of companies in the finance sector. The paper deals with the
IPOs and public awareness in IPOs.
The main aim of this study is to analyze level of awareness, to identify the public response
towards the IPOof financial and non financial sector in Nepalese market. The study aimed to
evaluate the investors' motive to investment. This study is based on primary data through
structured questionnaire, personally distributed to the investors. Data are analyzed by using
appropriate statistical tools and percentage analysis as well as describe by tables. Descriptive
research design has been used to collect the opinions and to know about response of respondents
by convenience sampling technique. The main conclusion of this study is there is awareness of
the investors towards on IPO. Specially, commercial banks, finance company, and hydropower
are more preferable. And there is also relationship between awareness and investment decision
of investor.