‘Reliance Industries may be aiming at listing of Jio post debt free status’

‘Reliance Industries may be aiming at listing of Jio post debt free status’

"Large platform companies are debt free typically. Benchmarking to peers like Alphabet, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook, Tencent and Apple," RJio said in a presentation.

AgenciesUpdated: Monday, October 28, 2019, 07:55 AM IST
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New Delhi: The aim of Reliance Industries (RIL) to make Jio debt free by transferring the liabilities of up to Rs 108,000 crore to a new entity could be a step towards listing the telecom arm at a later date and benchmarking it to the global peers.

"Large platform companies are debt free typically. Benchmarking to peers like Alphabet, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook, Tencent and Apple," RJio said in a presentation.

On the IPO issue, Jio network president Mathew Oommen had recently told IANS that the listing issue has not been discussed. RIL's CMD Mukesh Ambani has said that consolidation of liabilities in the company creates an efficient structure to manage debt and cash.

It ensures monetization opportunities accrue to shareholders efficiently. Industry and investment banking sources said the deleveraging the Jio balance sheet and trying to match with tech giants like Alphabet and Alibaba are aimed at creating a brand and strong balance sheet.

Jio is already a profit making company and with its decision to go pay on voice may further add to the top and bottom line before stake sale or listing the arm for a higher valuation.

As per the Jio presentation quoting data from CapitalQ, Alphabet has a Market Cap of $861,202 million, total debt of $14,226 million and net debt of $106,830 million.

Amazon has market cap of $873,429 million, $71,614 million total debt, $30,151 million net debt. Alibaba group has a market cap of $442,321 million, debt of $20,297 million and net debt of $11,828 million.

Facebook has a market cap of $520,207 million, $8,204 million debt and $40,392 million net debt. Tencent has $396,730 million market cap, $30,817 million as total debt and net debt of $3,946 million.

Apple Inc has a market cap of $1,084,422 million, total debt of $108,418 million and net debt of $102,192.

Reliance Industries has said that it would invest Rs 1.08 lakh crore through a rights issue in a wholly owned subsidiary to use the proceeds to invest in Reliance Jio Infocomm with the aim of making the telco a virtually net debt free company by March 31, 2020.

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