Shares of IFCI surged 10% on Wednesday to touch a fresh 52-week high, making the state-owned financial institution one of the notable movers in the market.

The rally has drawn attention to the company's shareholding pattern. Among public shareholders, more than 86,000 small retail investors — defined as those holding shares with authorized share capital of up to ₹2 lakh — collectively owned a 12.92% stake in the company. Shareholders with authorized share capital in excess of ₹2 lakh held another 12.65% of the company.

Notable names also feature in the shareholding data. Investor Ashish Dhewan holds a 2.17% stake in IFCI, while the International Finance Corporation — the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group and a long-standing shareholder in the institution — holds a 6.07% stake in the company.

IFCI is a government-owned non-banking financial company. Established in 1948 as the Industrial Finance Corporation of India, it was among the country's earliest development finance institutions before transitioning into an NBFC. The Government of India remains its largest shareholder and promoter. The stock's movement comes amid heightened market interest in the financial sector ahead of the National Stock Exchange's (NSE) upcoming initial public offering, in which shareholding structures of listed and unlisted financial entities — including entities that hold stakes in the exchange itself — have come under closer investor scrutiny. According to CNBC-TV18, SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey recently said the regulator was very close to approving the NSE IPO's draft red herring prospectus (DRHP).

Shareholding disclosures of this kind are published quarterly by listed companies, meaning the retail and institutional figures cited reflect the company's most recent reported quarter rather than any buying that occurred during Wednesday's session.

For live stock quotes and further details, IFCI's share price page is available on CNBC-TV18's markets section. The original report is available here.