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- Issue size
- ₹83,000 Cr
- Lot size
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- Bidding
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- Grey market
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Face value —
Split not disclosed
Listing date to be set
No quote recorded
The question this issue poses
In one sentence
Flipkart has finished the hard structural work for an Indian listing — NCLT approval in December 2025, re-domiciliation completed in March 2026 — and disclosed nothing else. The valuation being discussed runs from roughly $35 billion to $70 billion, a spread of about ₹2.9 lakh Cr, and no public financial statement for the proposed listing entity exists to narrow it.
IPOVista score
How this issue scores, and why
Every pillar opens to show the raw metric, the curve it was mapped through, the sub-score and its weight. Disagree with the weighting if you like — the arithmetic is all here.
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Not enough disclosed data to score
0% of the scoring model was backed by disclosed data for Flipkart, giving low confidence. Weights for anything missing were redistributed rather than scored as zero.
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Below the line: market sentiment. Capped at 8 of 100 points so a hot grey market can tilt a score but never carry one.
The IPOVista Score is a transparent summary of disclosed fundamentals and issue terms. It is research, not investment advice, and it cannot predict listing performance.
The company
What the business actually does
Bengaluru, Karnataka · part of Walmart Inc.
Flipkart is India's largest home-grown e-commerce group, majority owned by Walmart. Beyond the core marketplace — where its share of Indian online retail is estimated at 45–50% — the group runs Myntra in fashion, Ekart as its own logistics and delivery network, Shopsy for value commerce in smaller cities, Cleartrip in online travel, Flipkart Wholesale in B2B, Flipkart Minutes in quick commerce across more than 20 cities, and super.money in UPI payments. It reports more than 500 million registered users and employed about 22,000 people excluding Myntra as of January 2024. The group completed the structural prerequisite for an Indian listing in 2026: the National Company Law Tribunal approved the move in December 2025 and the re-domiciliation of the holding structure from Singapore to India completed in March 2026. PhonePe, formerly part of the group, was demerged earlier and is running its own, more advanced listing process.
Flipkart makes money from the marketplace rather than from owning inventory in the core business: commissions and fulfilment fees charged to third-party sellers, advertising sold against search and category placement, and logistics revenue from Ekart. The highest-margin and fastest-growing line is advertising, which monetises the same traffic twice. Around that sit businesses with their own economics — Myntra in fashion, which is reported to be profitable, Cleartrip taking travel commissions, Flipkart Wholesale operating a lower-margin B2B distribution model, and Flipkart Minutes burning capital to build a quick-commerce network against incumbents. Ownership is heavily concentrated: Walmart holds roughly 85% after consolidating stakes through internal buybacks around 2024, Tencent about 4%, Google took a minority position via a $350 million investment in May 2024, and co-founder Binny Bansal retains a small holding. That ownership shape matters for the offer: a listing can be sized almost entirely as a sale by Walmart without diluting control, which is why the structure is widely expected to be offer-for-sale heavy.
What makes it hard to copy
Flipkart owns its delivery network outright rather than renting it — Ekart runs more than 8,200 fulfilment, sortation and last-mile facilities across India, which is what lets the group set its own delivery promises and fulfilment economics.
Where it operates
- Ekart supply-chain facilities8,200
Across India — fulfilment centres, sortation hubs and last-mile delivery hubs
- Flipkart Minutes micro-fulfilment centres1,200
More than 150 Indian cities
Markets served
India
Who runs it
- Kalyan KrishnamurthyGroup Chief Executive Officer · since 2018Walmart's own leadership page dates him as group CEO of the Flipkart Group from 2018; he had led Flipkart since 2017.
- Ravi IyerChief Financial Officer, MarketplaceAlso running the group finance function on an interim basis since Group CFO Sriram Venkataraman stepped down in March 2026. No permanent group CFO had been named as of October 2026, which is an unusual gap for a company about to file.
The company on paper
- Legal name
- Flipkart Group
- Incorporated
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- Parent group
- Walmart Inc.
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary · E-commerce & online retail
- Registered office
- Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Promoters
- Walmart Inc.
- Website
- flipkart.com
The numbers
Financial performance
Figures as reported in the prospectus. Interim periods are shown but not annualised.
Revenue and profit
Figures in ₹ crore
No financial periods are disclosed for this issue yet.
The price
Valuation
Ratios as disclosed in the prospectus, calculated at the upper end of the price band. P/E is always shown on post-issue earnings so issues stay comparable with each other.
Valuation ratios have not been disclosed for this issue yet. They are normally published with the red herring prospectus, once the price band is fixed.
The terms
How the issue is structured
- Fresh issue
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- Offer for sale
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- Total issue size
- ₹83,000 Cr
- Shares offered in the OFS
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- Pre-issue shares outstanding
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- Employee discount
- None
Demand
What the market is bidding
Subscription is hard exchange data. Grey-market premium is not — it is an unofficial quote, shown because readers want it and labelled because it deserves the label.
Subscription by category
Cumulative bid multiples
Bidding has not opened yet, so there is no subscription data to show.
Grey market premium
Unofficial over-the-counter sentiment
No grey-market quotes have been recorded for this issue.
Work it out
What this means for one application
Three calculations, each stating the assumption it rests on.
What one application costs
Shares are applied for in whole lots at the cut-off price. The full amount is blocked in your bank account under ASBA, not debited, until allotment.
The lot size and price band are not fixed yet, so there is nothing to calculate.
Odds of getting an allotment
When the retail category is oversubscribed, SEBI requires a lottery for the minimum lot. Every application has the same chance, whatever its size.
Retail subscription figures are not available yet, so there is nothing to estimate from.
What the grey market implies
Arithmetic on an unofficial quote. The grey market has no clearing house and no obligation to settle — this is sentiment made numeric, not a forecast.
No grey-market quote has been recorded for this issue.
Our read
The case for and against
Grounded only in figures disclosed in the prospectus. This is analysis, not a recommendation.
What works
- The single biggest structural blocker is gone: the holding structure moved from Singapore to India in March 2026 following NCLT approval in December 2025, so an Indian listing is now mechanically possible.
- Scale and position: an estimated 45–50% share of Indian online retail and more than 500 million registered users, built over close to two decades rather than bought.
- The portfolio is genuinely diversified across commerce formats — marketplace, Myntra in fashion, Shopsy in value commerce, Cleartrip in travel, Flipkart Wholesale in B2B and Flipkart Minutes in quick commerce — rather than a single-channel retailer.
- Ekart gives the group its own delivery network, so fulfilment economics and delivery promises are controlled in-house instead of outsourced.
- Walmart's roughly 85% holding means an offer can be sized as a sale-down without the company needing to dilute for capital, and the separation of PhonePe leaves a cleaner commerce-only story for investors to price.
- The reported ₹67,000–83,000 Cr raise, if it happens at that size, would be comfortably the largest new-economy offer India has seen.
What to weigh against it
- Nothing has been filed. There is no DRHP with SEBI as of 12 October 2026, no banker syndicate announced, no price, no date. Every figure in circulation is a banker's or journalist's estimate.
- No financials appear in this record because none could be verified for the issuer. Flipkart's Indian operating entities file separately and the figures quoted in the press differ by a factor of roughly four depending on which entity is being described — one widely cited source reports FY25 revenue of about ₹82,787 Cr with a ₹5,189 Cr loss, another reports FY25 operating income of about ₹20,493 Cr with a ₹1,494 Cr loss. Until a prospectus defines the consolidated entity, neither set can be attributed to the company that would list.
- The valuation gap is the whole risk. The last disclosed marks were roughly $35–36 billion, or about ₹2.90–3.10 lakh Cr, dated to a December 2023 transaction and a June 2024 internal mark. The listing talk is at $60–70 billion. That is close to a doubling with no disclosed earnings to support it.
- The timetable has moved repeatedly. Reports over the past eighteen months have variously placed the listing in late 2025, late 2026, early 2027 and as far out as 2028.
- An offer-for-sale-heavy structure means most or all of the ₹67,000–83,000 Cr would go to Walmart rather than into the business, so the proceeds would fund an exit rather than growth.
- The group is loss-making on every reported basis, and the quick-commerce build-out through Flipkart Minutes is a fresh cash cost in a segment with well-funded incumbents.
- Absorption risk: an issue of this size would need to be more than twice the roughly ₹30,213 Cr Jio Platforms offer, in a market that has never placed anything of that magnitude.
Easy to miss in the prospectus
- The first thing a DRHP will settle is which legal entity is the issuer and what its consolidated accounts look like. Until then, comparing Flipkart revenue figures quoted in different articles is meaningless — they describe different companies in the group.
- Watch the fresh-issue-to-offer-for-sale split. It determines whether any of the roughly ₹67,000–83,000 Cr reaches the company, and it is the clearest signal of whether Walmart is raising capital for Flipkart or realising its own position.
- PhonePe's separate and further-advanced listing process is the live read-across on how Indian investors price a Walmart-backed Indian asset, and it will likely come to market first.
- Flipkart shares change hands in the unlisted market at around ₹18,900, within a 52-week range of ₹15,000–21,000. That is a thin, unregulated market and not a valuation reference, but it is the only continuously quoted price that exists today.
- The ₹67,000–83,000 Cr size in this record is the rupee equivalent of a reported $8–10 billion target and has never been confirmed by the company. It should be read as a range of press estimates, not as terms.
- Myntra is reported to be profitable while the group is not, so segment disclosure in any prospectus — particularly the split between marketplace commissions, advertising and logistics — will matter more than the consolidated loss line.
Straight from the filing
Read it yourself
Nothing has been filed yet. An offer document appears here once it reaches the regulator.
The paperwork
Who is running the issue
- Lead managers
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- Registrar
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How these figures were checked
Built from 4 independently published accounts of this issue, agreeing with each other. No copy of the filing itself is linked here, so nothing on this page has been reconciled against the primary document — treat every figure as reported rather than verified.
The prospectus is the authoritative document. Check anything that matters against it before you act.
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