Tiger Global cuts stake in Zomato by almost half; sells 18 crore shares in a week

The same amount of shares were held by Uber in Zomato as of June 30, 2022, according to the shareholding pattern shared with stock exchanges.

The bulk of the offloaded shares were picked up by Fidelity Investment Trust Fidelity Series Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, which bought 5.44 crore out of them for Rs 50.26 a piece, the stock exchange data showed.

Amid large sell-off pressure on the Zomato stock last week, venture capital firm Moore Strategic Ventures exited its entire holding of 4.25 crore shares in the company at Rs 44 apiece, according to block deal data. 

The cumulative size of the trade executed by Moore was around Rs 187 crore whereas it had bought the holdings for Rs 191 crore before the foodtech company’s initial public offering.

As such, Moore has booked a loss of around Rs 4 crore on the investment.

With the lock-in period of one year for around 613 crore shares or 78 percent of Zomato’s stock ending on July 23, analysts had cautioned that the company’s share price may face sell-off pressure this week.

“As there is no promoter, all shareholders, including the founders, collectively owning 77.87 percent who were locked in would be free to sell the shares without any disclosures on July 23. This would be a big overhang on the stock price,” Shriram Subramanian, founder and MD of proxy advisory firm InGovern, earlier told Moneycontrol.

At 11:51am, shares of Zomato traded at Rs 54.90 apiece on the BSE, while the benchmark Sensex was at 57,733.62, down 616.91 points or 1.06 percent.