China's social & e-commerce company Pinduoduo goes public on Nasdaq with opening price surging 40%

Pinduoduo's opening price of USD 26.5 is nearly 40% higher than the issue price of USD 19, with market value reaching nearly USD 30 billion.

China's social and e-commerce company Pinduoduo (NASDAQ:PDD) launched its initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq on July 26. The IPO offered 85.6 million American depositary shares at USD 19. The opening price was USD 26.5 per American depositary share, up nearly 40% from the issue price. The market value reached nearly USD 30 billion. 

Pinduoduo has created a record of the fastest IPO among Chinese Internet firms. It took the company only 2 years and 11 months to hit Nasdaq since it launched online in September 2015.

It is notable that Pinduoduo's founder, chairman and CEO Huang Zheng didn't strike the gong at the IPO ceremony held simultaneously in New York and Shanghai. Instead, two consumer representatives were selected to strike the gongs in the two cities. This is the first time in Nasdaq's history. 

Pinduoduo's prospectus showed it issued a total of 85,600,000 ADS and raised USD 1.87 billion. Tencent and Sequoia Capital plan to increase USD 250 million worth of their shares respectively in the IPO. The IPO sponsors have exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 12.84 million ADS.

Pinduoduo plans to use 40% of the proceeds to strengthen and expand its existing business, 40% for technology R&D and the remaining will be used for daily operation and potential investment projects.

The Pinduoduo flotation was oversubscribed by 20-fold from investors including Fidelity Investments and the sovereign funds of Abu Dhabi. The oversubscription would allow Pinduoduo to raise its IPO price by 20% to USD 22.80 per ADR, but the company decided to price at USD 19 per ADR.

Huang Zheng owns a total of 2,074,447,700 Pinduoduo ordinary shares, equivalent to 518,611,925 ADS. Based on the opening price, Huang's stake in the company is worth USD 13.7 billion, ranking 13th among billionaires from Mainland China.

According to Forbes' real-time billionaire ranking list unveiled on July 26, JD.com founder Richard Liu  ranks 16th among mainland China billionaires with a value of USD 9.3 billion; Tencent cofounder Zhang Zhidong ranks 11th with USD 14.3 billion; Baidu CEO Robin Li takes the 10th place with USD 14.6 billion; Netease founder and CEO Ding Lei ranks 9th with USD 16.1 billion; SF Express founder Wang Wei ranks 8th and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun ranks 7th.

"There are several reasons for the overseas market's favor on Pinduoduo. First, the capital market is relatively mature and rational, and is barely affected by emotional reasons. Second, the investors envisage the considerable capacity Pinduoduo has achieved in a short period of time.    

Pinduoduo's operating revenue was USD 278 million (about RMB 1.74 billion) in 2017, surging 245% from the USD 80 million (RMB 505 million). The company realized operating revenue of USD 220.7 million (about RMB 1.34 billion) in Q1 2018, about 37 folds of the RMB 37 million earned a year earlier. The operating revenue mainly comes for online advertisements and transaction commissions.

Pinduoduo made a net loss of RMB 525 million (about USD 83.7 million) in 2017, compared with the RMB 292 million in 2016. Driven by the drastic market expansion, Pinduoduo's sales and marketing expenses reached RMB 1.2 billion in Q1 2018, leading to a net loss of RMB 201 million. In other words, by Q1 2018, Pinduoduo had made a total loss of RMB 1.3 billion (including stock options) over the past three years since establishment.  

Pinduoduo's sales value was RMB 141.2 billion in 2017, with the number of orders received on mobile platform reaching 4.3 billion and the number of active buyers reaching 245 million. The number of users increased by 50 million quarterly.

By Q1 2018, Pinduoduo had realized accumulated transaction value of RMB 198.7 billion, and owned 295 million active buyers and 1 million active merchants, which is higher than that of Vipshop, ranking third following Taobao.com and JD.com.

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