Operating under Güler Investment Holding and standing out as one of the top 10 brokerage houses in Borsa Istanbul in terms of transaction volume, the company made its public offering of 85 million shares, which is 2.43 times the total of 35 million shares, on the book-building dates on June 7-8-9. completed with a share request.
The company, which received 1.89 times the demand from individual investors and 4.64 times more from institutional investors for 35 million shares, which were put up for sale at 25 liras per piece, started trading on Borsa Istanbul with the code “A1CAP” as of today.
A1 Capital Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ IPO Gong Ceremony held in Borsa İstanbul, Borsa İstanbul General Manager Korkmaz Ergun, Güler Investment Holding Chairman of the Board Murat Güler, A1 Capital Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ Chairman Ayşe Terzi, A1 Capital Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ It was held with the participation of General Manager Mehmet Serkan Esenpak and guests.
In his speech at the ceremony, Borsa İstanbul AŞ General Manager Korkmaz Ergun stated that A1 Capital has provided successful services in the capital markets for years and said, “I congratulate them and thank them. Our brokerage houses are our most important stakeholders and business partners. Our common goal is to increase our transaction volume and liquidity. is to ensure that the capital market reaches its potential. he said.
Noting that in recent years, they have made significant progress with our intermediary institutions and achieved a rapid growth momentum in reaching their targets, Ergun said:
“We have reached 40-50 public offerings per year and the public offering amount exceeding 20 billion TL. In the first half of 2023, we have reached 20 public offerings and 26 billion TL public offerings. Our daily average transaction volume in the Equity Market has reached 100 billion TL from 26 billion TL. Likewise, our daily average transaction volume in the Debt Securities Market has exceeded 100 billion TL. In debt instruments issuances, 2000 issuances and 400 billion TL issuances per year We’re heading towards our goal.
The year 2023, the 100th anniversary of the establishment of our Republic, is also the 150th anniversary of the establishment of our stock exchange. I would like to thank all our brokerage houses, portfolio management companies and all employees in banks for their devoted efforts for their efforts.
A1 Capital realized a very successful public offering with 875 million TL of public offering income and sales to 754 thousand investors. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this successful public offering, especially the valuable managers and employees of our brokerage house, and wish them good luck for our capital markets.”
“We closed the IPO process with a demand above our expectations”
Ayşe Terzi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of A1 Capital Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, said that as a company, they always offer special solutions to investors in all areas of capital markets, especially in stocks, investment consultancy, public offering and company valuation.
Emphasizing that there is an era in which the financial ecosystem is redesigned from scratch with digitalization, Terzi made the following assessment:
“As A1 Capital, we continue to move forward with a mission that always aims the best investment for our investors with information-based data and analysis in this period of great change in the capital markets. With the aim of being Turkey’s innovative investment institution that provides high quality services and fast solutions to its investors. “Our public offering will be a turning point for our company. The public offering of our company means a doubling of your equity. When we think that we will add our public offering revenues to our capital, we will achieve greater success in the capital markets in the future.”
Mehmet Serkan Esenpak, General Manager of A1 Capital Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, stated that they closed the public offering process with a demand above their expectations.
Esenpak said that they are very satisfied with the demand for 85 million shares from both individual investors and domestic and foreign institutional investors for the public offering of their company, which is one of the well-established institutions of the Turkish capital markets, “Accordingly, the amount demanded in the public offering is 2.43 times the total supply size. While the public offering of our company’s shares, the demand came 1.89 times from individual investors and 4.64 times from institutional investors.
We have distributed these shares, which we have publicly offered, to more than 750 thousand investors in total. In this context, while the high demand we have received reveals the value given to the company, it is also of great importance that we will use the income to be obtained from this in the working capital of A1 Capital.”
Esenpak stated that with the income they obtained from the public offering, they increased the resource they provided to the sector to approximately 2 billion liras, and used the following statements:
“We believe that this economic growth we have achieved will make significant contributions to both our industry and our investors. As a brand that grows day by day, we prioritize being able to provide guidance for the most appropriate investment to our customers, investors, and the people with whom we provide investment consultancy activities.
As one of the leading institutions that mediated the trading of real sector companies on the stock exchange, it is extremely important for the sector that investment companies are also traded on the stock exchange. The most important indicator of this was the serious interest of the investors in the public offering of one of the leading intermediary institutions of the sector, such as A1 Capital.
