Fee-based biz helped Share India grow Q2 numbers; to focus on retail business going forward: Sachin Gupta
Sachin Gupta, CEO, Share India Securities, says there was a huge growth in demand in MTF. Further, Share India focused on the merchant banking side, helping some companies to get listed on the SME side and that also gave good revenues. Recently they have started the institutional desk where we empanelled 113 institutions in the last one-and-a-half years. All these factors focusing on the fee-based businesses helped Share India a lot. Going further, they will focus on increasing the retail business.
Let us look at your numbers. Your overall numbers in Q2 were pretty strong both on a sequential basis as well as year-on-year basis. What are the factors that led to the growth in Q2? Even your broking clients are up 35% sequentially which is marking a three-fold increase from Q2 of FY24. What led to that?
Sachin Gupta: A number of factors worked in our favour. One, definitely market participation was good overall. But on the Share India side, in the last two years, we focused more on the retail side for which we started providing MTF (margin trading facility) services to the clients. We saw a huge growth, huge demand in MTF and Share India book stands at around Rs 250 crore by the end of September.
Secondly, we focused on the merchant banking side, helping some companies to get listed on the SME side and that also gave us good revenues. Recently we also started the institutional desk where we empanelled 113 institutions with us in the last around one-and-a-half years. All these factors focusing on the fee-based
