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szdaily -> Markets -> 
1st-mover advantage huge in new board
    2019-07-04  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THERE’S at least one first-entrant advantage to listing on China’s new stock venue.

Four companies have set prices for their tech board debuts and are on track to raise a combined 4.5 billion yuan (US$654 million) from investors, about 50 percent more than initially planned.

One of those — Raytron Technology Co. — is poised to raise 167 percent more than its target. While demand was expected to be high for the initial batch of candidates, it’s still an encouraging sign for the new tech board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

New listings in China have been tightly controlled since 2014 as regulators sought to protect investors from buying into stocks at inflated prices.

The Science and Technology Innovation Board is an experiment at loosening those rules — a bid to get Chinese entrepreneurs to go public at home rather than in New York or other overseas stock exchanges.

It will be the only onshore venue where initial public offerings can be valued higher than 23 times earnings.

“There’s a lot of enthusiasm around the early batch of listings,” said Mark Huang, an analyst at Bright Smart Securities. “The supply is limited at first, so the pent-up demand has resulted in higher-than-expected fundraising targets.”

Raytron Technology, which makes electrical sensors, set its listing price at 20 yuan a share, suggesting a valuation of about 79 times reported earnings.

Zhejiang HangKe Technology Incorporated Co. and Suzhou TZTEK Technology Co. plan to raise about 106 percent and 23 percent more than originally planned, suggesting multiples of 40 and 57 times profit, respectively.

While the first to price — Suzhou HYC Technology Co. — will probably raise slightly less than its initial target, it still bagged a multiple of 41.

Some investors say the high valuations show there’s too much hype. Jiang Liangqing, a money manager at Ruisen Capital Management in Beijing, said there’s a risk the first listings won’t fare so well after their debuts, and could even slump when they start trading. He predicts subsequent tech board IPOs will price at lower valuations.

“The high prices of first batch of tech board listings are mainly driven by strong speculation and short supply,” he said. “There’s good chance we’ll see some IPOs flop in their trading debuts.”

(SD-Agencies)

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