Price Band:Price band indicates the different price levels within a given range in which the investor can enter his bid.
Floor Price:It is the lower end of the price band.
Cap Price: It is the upper end of the price band.
Offer Document: Offer document means prospectus in case of a public issue, which is filed with Registrar of companies (ROC) and stock exchanges. The offer document contains all relevant details pertaining to the issue upon which the investors can make his/her decision.
Draft Offer Document: means the offer document in the draft stage, which is filed with SEBI for its observations. The draft offer documents are filed with SEBI atleast 21 days prior to filing the offer document with ROC and Exchange.
SEBI ROLE: Any company making a public issue or a listed company making a rights issue of value more then Rs.50 Lakhs is required to file a draft offer document with SEBI for its observations. The company can proceed further only after receiving observations from SEBI. The validity of SEBI observation is 3 months only i.e the company has to open its issue within 3 months period.
Cut off Price: In case of public issues the actual discovered price/ issue price can be anything between a given price band. The discovered issue price is called the cut off price.
Basis of Allotment: The allotment in case of QIB category is on a discretionary basis while in case of Retail and Non-QIB (HNI) category the allotment is on a proportionate basis.