MTN Uganda CEO, Wim Vanhelleptte (R) and Andrew Bugembe the MTN Uganda CFO (2L) at the sidelines of the Nairobi MTN IPO Investor meeting. Kenyan Investors are showing keen interest in participating in the MTN IPO following the opening of the offer on October 11 2021 and a series of investor roadshows that took place in Nairobi last week. The offer which closes on November 22 2021 is now open to Kenyans and East African investors.
With 4.4 billion shares on offer, the MTN IPO is the second largest offer in the region after Safaricom in Kenya and the first telecommunication company to be listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange.
Speaking on the sidelines of one of the investor meetings, Cynthia Mbaru, Dyer & Blair Investment Bank Director of Corporate Finance, said that it was very useful to have the MTN Management team visit Nairobi last week where they engaged market analysts and prospective investors on the IPO. “We hosted a great session with them for our clients which was very informative. Our clients had a lot of questions regarding the business and future prospects. At the end of it, it was clear that MTN is a very profitable company with a strong balance sheet and good growth prospects. Our clients particularly felt that mobile money presented a lot of opportunities for MTN considering the impact MPESA had on Safaricom that they have witnessed,” said Cynthia.
Adding: “with all this information, our clients are now very keen to invest especially as they know that they will earn incentive shares of 5% on top of their application and that the allocation policy puts them behind Ugandans. Now, we are very busy assisting them to open SCD accounts and showing them how to apply for shares online. Our advice at this stage for all investors is to open the SCD account first. As the offer comes to a close, it is important not to leave that process till the end.”
The roadshows were made possible after Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMAK) provided its ‘no objection’ for The MTN Uganda Initial Public Offering (IPO) to be marketed in Kenya, allowing the marketing of the shares to both Professional Investors and Retail Investors following the opening of the offer in Uganda on 11 th October 2021. Wim Vanhelleputte (2L) and Andrew Bugembe (3L) presenting the MTN IPO to a cross section of Kenyan based investors in Nairobi […]
