Ambani’s Reliance Jio IPO in 2025: Ready for India's biggest IPO?

Ambani’s Reliance Jio IPO in 2025: Ready for India's biggest IPO?

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio IPO might be available in 2025; if it happens then it could be the biggest IPO in the Indian Stock market history. This year Hyundai's IPO of Rs.27,870.16 Cr got the crown of launching the biggest IPO of 2024. 

Reliance Jio is planning to launch Rs.8,40,960 Cr IPO in the Stock Market. This telecom company IPO will be followed by another Reliance Retail much later because of internal operational activities priority with Retail. 

Let’s dive into India’s biggest company group details, Jio IPO strategy, date, and price band of this IPO.

Reliance Industries

India’s most valuable and biggest industry group is Reliance Industries with a market cap of Rs.17.67 lac Cr. Jio is one of the subsidiaries of the parent company Reliance, which is engaged in Telecom Services.

Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest person cleared in 2019 to launch its two IPOs Reliance Retail and Reliance Jio in 5 years.

Reliance Jio IPO dates

The IPO dates are not yet announced. It is expected in Q2 or Q3 to be available for public.

 

Reliance Jio IPO Price Band

The IPO price bands are not declared by the company. 

 

IPO Strategy

Reliance Industries will always be growing and evolving, Mukesh Ambani said. Technology and strategic innovation will transform the retail industry with Ambani at the controls, regardless of Jio's leadership of Indian communications. The sector waits with bated breath as Reliance enters 2025 for the much-awaited Jio IPO.

The IPO will confirm Jio's position in the telecom industry and open the way for further expansion into 5G technology, digital services, and artificial intelligence. The delayed Reliance Retail IPO shows how the company has taken the time to think through the internal operating challenges before offering it in the public domain.

 

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd is wholly owned by Jio Platforms and holds the group's telecom services business. This serves over 479 million consumers in the country and is the largest market player in that segment with its voice and data services. Jio launched in the telecom sector back in 2016 and offered free voice services. At that time, voice services were charged, and they brought data or per-gigabyte tariffs near the ground levels, making India one of the markets offering one of the lowest data tariffs globally.

The telco also posted a 7% rise in average revenue per user (ARPU), an important benchmark for the telecom industry, at Rs.195.1 after three-quarters of flat revenues. The company saw 18% revenue growth, at Rs.31,709 crore, for the September quarter. EBITDA rose 18% to Rs.15,931 Cr, and profit gained 23% to Rs.6,539 crore.

 

Why Reliance Retail IPO delayed?

The Jio IPO is going ahead, while Reliance Retail-Ambani's huge retail network public issue has been put on the back burner. Initially, a concurrent timeline for the issue of the IPO for this subsidiary of the retail business had been reflected to be around the same time as the Jio issue. It was due to internal pressure in that process.

Meanwhile, it has 3000 plus stores across the country, but its many store-based businesses incur heavy losses. This would also come with e-commerce and other retail format operational complexities that would be dealt with before listing through an IPO.

Reliance seems to be shying away from launching two flagship IPOs in the same year. The retail one, now scheduled to follow after 2025 would have also progressed only when the company had sorted its operations and improved profitability within all pockets of diversification.

 

Jio Challenges & Opportunities

Though the Reliance group has always been on a growth path, the competition is now seen in many pockets of industry. In terms of the telecom sector, for example, Jio's success in the foreseeable near-term would face tremendous rivalry as Elon Musk launches satellite-based internet services within India- Starlink may even destabilize the Indian telecommunication sector. All being equal, however, it still appears that all would go well with it. It has invested deep within this 5G structure built through the years in each Indian district.

Challenges are coming from Amazon and Flipkart on the retail side. The quick-commerce sector is growing very rapidly and is dominated by companies like Swiggy. Thus, this will be another challenge for Reliance Retail. However, with huge financial and operational resources, Reliance Retail is going to cross all these challenges when it is ready to go public.

Conclusion

Reliance Jio IPO might be the largest Indian IPO that brings a new age to both telecom and the stock market sectors. Being the strongholds of 5G and digital services, growth will still be witnessed in Jio. However, competition is there in this regard from the new players such as Starlink; growth will still be witnessed here. Reliance Retail IPO is kept on hold due to operational issues but it is soon expected to come up to mark further growth in the retail market. All these IPOs will establish the leadership of Reliance in the industries.

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