When shares of Arm, the British chip designer, begin trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Thursday in the year’s biggest initial public offering, investors, tech executives, bankers and start-up founders will be watching closely for how it performs.
If Arm’s stock falls, they will know that the market for I.P.O.s is likely to stay frozen for longer.
But a warm welcome for the shares could entice many more companies to go public in the coming months, ending the cold streak.
Arm is the largest company to brave the public markets in 2023, a year that has been almost deathly quiet for I.P.O.s.
The chip designer, which is owned by SoftBank, priced its offering on Wednesday at $51 a share, raising $4.87 billion and valuing the company at $54.5 billion.
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”, David Hsu
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Nasdaq, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, SoftBank
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