Shares of Burger King India (BKIL) the Indian subsidiary of the US-based made a strong debut on Monday gaining 131 per cent premium of Rs. 138 against its issue price of Rs 60 on the BSE. Burger King’s initial public offering was massively oversubscribed by investors across categories earlier this month. Overall, the issue was subscribed 156 times, making it the second most subscribed IPO of 2020. Quick service restaurant (QSR) offers good long-term opportunity, suggested by the management’s growth plan and the FY21 performance so far. The company intends to utilise the fresh proceeds to finance the roll-out of new company-owned Burger King Restaurants and to meet the general corporate purposes.
The QSR chain owned by QSR Asia continued to report losses in previous financial years but there has been strong growth in revenue and stable gross margin performance. Analysts say investors can book profits of half of the investment amount in short term and hold the rest for the long term.