Chennai, February 14, 2024: UGRO Capital Limited is currently engaged in the business of lending and primarily deals in financing SME and MSME sectors. The company has announced the issue of secured, rated, listed, redeemable, non-convertible debentures of the face value of ₹ 1,000 each. The Issue opens on Thursday, February 08, 2024, and closes on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, with an option of early closure subject to compliance with Regulation 33A of the SEBI NCS Regulations.

The Issue has a base issue size of ₹ 10,000 lakhs with an option to retain oversubscription up to ₹ 10,000 lakhs, aggregating up to ₹ 20,000 lakhs. The NCDs are proposed to be listed on the Stock Exchanges and NSE is the Designated Stock Exchange for the Issue. The NCDs have been rated “IND A/Stable” by India Ratings & Research Private Limited.

JM Financial Limited is the sole lead manager to the issue Link Intime India Private Limited is the Registrar to the Issue and Mitcon Credentia Trusteeship Services Limited is the debenture trustee to the Issue.

This issue has tenor of 18 months, 24 months, and 27 months for secured NCDs. Effective yield (% per annum) for NCD holders in all Categories ranges from 10.72% to 11.03%. Redemption Amount (₹ / NCD) on maturity for NCD holders in all Categories range is ₹ 1000 and for Series III it is through Staggered Redemption in eight (8) quarterly payments of ₹ 125 each, starting from 1st quarter from the deemed date of allotment until maturity.

At least 75% of the Net proceeds of the Issue shall be utilized for onward lending and financing business of the company in the ordinary course of business (including for repayment / refinance of existing borrowings) and Not exceeding 25% shall be used for general corporate purposes.

As of March 31, 2023, its CRAR, by the Audited Financial Results was at 20.23%, and for the nine months ended December 31, 2023 stood at 22.27%.

UGRO’s AUM has grown from ₹ 1316.87 crore as of March 31, 2021, and ₹ 2969.80 crore as of March 31, 2022, to ₹ 6080.71 crore as of March 31, 2023. As of December 31, 2023, our AUM is at ₹8363.76 crore. Across the offered products, as of December 31, 2023, the average ticket size stood at ₹ 16.19 lakh and our average lending rate stood at 16.3% p.a.