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Updated 2026-10-06 (IST)

What are kostak and subject-to-sauda?

Grey-market slang. Kostak is a fixed price someone pays for your whole application before allotment. Subject-to-sauda pays only if you get shares. Both are unofficial, like GMP.

Right now, on this site

Across the 45 IPOs we followed from a last pre-listing quote to the real listing-day open, grey-market premium pointed the right way 80% of the time, and overstated the gain by a median of 1 pp. The record, issue by issue.

We hold a grey-market quote for 1 issue right now, each with the number of independent sources behind it. Today's GMP.

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