Reliance Industries on Friday became the first Indian company to cross the Rs 11 trillion market valuation mark
Vodafone Idea will have to cough up an additional Rs 5,235 crore every year till 2040 to pay its remaining portion of the AGR dues.
In terms of value, RIL's June quarter deal (sales, purchase and joint venture included) activity, is more than 68 per cent of the conglomerate's combined deal activity between FY2010 and FY2020
With RIL's market capitalisation crossing the Rs 11-trillion mark on Friday, its chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani became the ninth-richest billionaire globally
In March 2020, Ambani was ranked 21st on Forbes' annual billionaire list, with a net worth of $36.8 billion, while Page and Brin were 13th and 14th.
Shares of RIL have more than doubled from this year's low of Rs 868 in March underpinned by a stream of investments in its arm Jio Platforms
As on March 2020, RIL had a net debt of Rs 1.61 trn and managed to turn itself net debt-free after raising Rs 1.68 trn via a 24.7% stake sale in Jio Platforms, and its rights issue
Earlier in the day, Ambani announced that Reliance Industries had become net debt-free after raising a record Rs 1.69 trillion from global investors and a rights issue in under two months
Here's a timeline of Reliance Jio Platforms' six mega investment deals with foreign players and one additional commitment announced since April 22, 2020
RIL raised over Rs 168,818 crore in just 58 days become net debt-free company. Mukesh Ambani now plans to list the telecom and retail businesses in the next five years
Starting with Facebook Inc on April 22, Reliance has sold almost 25 per cent of equity in Jio Platforms.
An agreement between Ambani's Reliance and Future, which already has a partnership with Amazon.com Inc., could be announced as early as next month
This is the 10th investment in Reliance Jio in nine weeks
The US social media giant's $5.7 billion investment in Reliance's digital unit is the biggest among a string of investments amounting to $13.7 billion into Jio Platforms, controlled by Mukesh Ambani
RIL has started to hive off its oil-to-chemicals entity which comprises of its twin oil refineries at Jamnagar in Gujarat as well as petrochemical units
The valuation of the deals is in line with recent transactions pegging Jio's equity value at Rs 4.91 trillion and enterprise value at Rs 5.16 trillion
Jio Platforms has now announced a combined investment of Rs 104,326.95 crore in 10 deals since April 22
This is the eighth deal announced by RIL in the last two months
Reserved and mostly invisible to the public, Modi is viewed by many insiders and others in India's business world as the right hand of billionaire Mukesh Ambani.
Ambani's firm had on April 30 announced fundraising of Rs 53,124 crore by way of a 1:15 rights issue -- India's biggest and the first such issue by the firm in nearly three decades