Didi Stock Soars on First Day, Notching $80 Billion Market Value

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Didi's stock jumped as much as 19% in its first day of trading, bucking a trend of poor performance that has plagued other Chinese companies’ IPOs

Didi Global Inc.’s stock jumped on the first day of trading after its IPO, as investors gobbled up shares of the Beijing-based ride-sharing company.

Didi’s American depositary shares opened trading at $16.65 on Wednesday afternoon, 19% above their $14 IPO price. At the open, Didi’s market capitalization was roughly $80 billion. The gains bucked the trend of poor performance that has plagued several other Chinese companies’ IPOs in recent weeks, signaling that investors are willing to overlook some risks for the promise of high growth, and that Didi and its underwriters were wise in conservatively pricing the deal.pricing shares at $14 apiece

, making it the biggest IPO haul for a Chinese company since Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. listed shares in 2014, according to Dealogic. Some people around Didi’s deal had originally floated the possibility of raising roughly $5 billion to $10 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, but scaled back due to recent poor performance by Chinese IPOs and the high volume of U.S.-listed IPOs marketing shares to investors right now.for U.S.

 

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