Happiest Minds to merge into ITC Infotech; promoters to sell 22.1% stake

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Price reactionminutes from the announcement price · days from the prior close

-11.7%Reaction day

₹408.60

prior close

₹404.00

announcement price

After-mkt

timing

Nifty Microcap 250market-1.0%-10.7% vs market

Computers - Software & Consulting peers, median of 66sector+0.0%-11.7% vs sector

On the reaction day the stock moved 10.7 pts less than Nifty Microcap 250 and 11.7 pts less than its Computers - Software & Consulting peers, over the same two closes: a difference in percentage points, not a measure of what the filing did.

Minutes after the announcementfrom the announcement price · no benchmark

Stock

-2.4

10m

-3.3

15m

-3.8

30m

-6.8

Sessions after the filingfrom the prior close

StockMarketvs marketSectorvs sector

Reaction day

-11.7-1.0-10.7+0.0-11.7

Next day

-13.0-1.5-11.5-0.5-12.5

-13.5-0.9-12.6-0.1-13.4

-13.4-0.3-13.1-0.4-13.0

-15.9+0.1-16.0-2.2-13.7

-15.6+0.7-16.3-2.7-12.9

-18.7+0.3-19.0-3.9-14.8

15d

-22.7+1.0-23.6-4.2-18.4

-25.4-2.4-23.0-7.6-17.7

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AI summary

Happiest Minds board approved scheme of amalgamation with ITC Infotech India Ltd via absorption. Swap ratio: 25 ITC Infotech shares (INR 10 face value) for every 81 Happiest Minds shares (INR 2 face value). Promoters Ashok Soota and Ashok Soota Medical Research LLP will sell 3,36,61,700 shares (22.1% stake) to ITC Infotech for INR 1,329.7 crore in two tranches. Post-merger, Happiest Minds will be dissolved without winding up. Registered office to shift from Karnataka to West Bengal, subject to shareholder approval.

Likely market impact

Major restructuring: Happiest Minds merges into ITC Infotech; shareholders receive ITC Infotech shares via swap. Promoter exit of 22.1% is significant.