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Allotted IPO shares not visible on Kite before listing

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Allotted IPO shares are credited to a demat account on T+2, the working day before listing, but they do not appear in Kite holdings until on or before the listing day, and they cannot be traded until the listing day itself. This is the normal flow, not a fault. Zerodha states it directly: a CDSL confirmation email “only informs you that shares are being credited to your demat account,” and the shares “will only appear in Kite on or before the listing day.”

How to fix NSDL shares not visible on Kite

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Shares held in an NSDL demat account, or in any demat account other than your Zerodha account, are not visible on Kite because Kite shows only the Zerodha demat, and Zerodha’s demat is held with CDSL . The two depositories are separate record systems, so a holding in an NSDL or other-broker demat sits outside the account Kite reads. To make those shares visible and tradable on Kite, transfer them into your Zerodha CDSL demat; once the shares are credited there, they appear in holdings.

Why IPO shares show average cost N/A on Kite

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Allotted IPO shares show average cost N/A on Kite because the share has not listed yet, so there is no market price to display. A share you have been allotted has an allotment price, the issue price you paid, but no live market quote until it starts trading. Kite builds the holdings view around a market price, so until the stock lists, the average-cost and profit-and-loss fields read N/A or 0. This is expected behaviour for a freshly allotted, not-yet-listed share, not a holdings error and not a sign that the allotment went wrong.