About the role
Description
An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is more than a single-day fundraising event. It is a process through which a privately held company transitions into public ownership, with its valuation and investor expectations evolving across several stages. The analysts who stand out are the ones who follow the whole journey, from the last private funding round to the first quarterly results after listing.
Finnacle, the finance competition of Passion'26 at IMT Ghaziabad, puts teams in that position. Teams begin with a quiz on IPOs and equity markets, move on to Listing Lens, where each team is assigned a recently listed Indian company, traces its pre-IPO valuation, grey market signals, listing performance and first post-listing quarter, and defends its verdict before a panel of judges. The competition rewards sound valuation, evidence and practical thinking over decoration.
Round Details
Allotment Quiz (Eliminatory)
- Format: Online quiz of 20 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 10 minutes. Only the team leader can attempt the quiz.
- Objective: The quiz assesses the IPO ecosystem, equity markets and the fundamentals of valuation.
- Marking Scheme: Each correct answer carries 1 mark and each incorrect answer carries a negative mark of 0.25.
Answers cannot be edited once you move to the next question.
Listing Lens
- Format: Presentation (PPTX/PDF) and Excel workbook (XLSX) submitted by the Team Leader on Unstop. Shortlisted teams present for 10 minutes, followed by 5–7 minutes of Q&A.
- Objective: Teams analyse a recently listed Indian company's IPO across four stages: pre-IPO valuation, grey market, IPO and listing, and first post-listing quarter.
- Task: Present a Genuine Growth, Fair Exit or Exit-Driven verdict with a Buy/Hold/Avoid view and defend it before the judges.
General Rules
- Teams should prepare a PPTX/PDF.
- The presentation should be 5-8 slides long, excluding the Introduction and Thank You slides.
- The name of the file should be Finnacle_TeamName.
- The file must be uploaded through the Unstop page of Finnacle.
- Participants are free to use information from external sources. However, all external sources must be properly cited.
- Cite sources for all material figures. Clearly label estimates, assumptions and unofficial GMP data. Where a data point is unavailable, state the limitation rather than presenting an unsupported estimate.
- The final decision remains with the judges and Team Passion.