© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Saudi woman walks at the Saudi stock market (Tadawul), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri/File Photo
DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Tadawul Group, the kingdom’s stock exchange operator, has set an indicative price range for its initial public offering which shows it could raise up to 3.78 billion riyals ($1.01 billion) in the deal.
Saudi Tadawul plans to sell 36 million shares in the price range of 95 riyals to 105 riyals a share, it said in a stock exchange filing.
Saudi Tadawul’s listing plan comes after a boom in IPO activity in the kingdom following the listing of Saudi Aramco (SE:2222) in 2019, which raised $29.4 billion in the world’s biggest flotation.
Prominent IPOs this year have been ACWA Power International $1.2 billion flotation and Saudi Telecom Co’s IPO of its unit, Arabian Internet and Communications Services Co, which raised about $966 million.
Saudi Tadawul said the final price for its offering will be determined after the completion of the book-building process, which begins on Sunday and ends on November 26.
The market capitalisation of companies listed on Tadawul is around $2.7 trillion, making the bourse the Arab world’s largest stock exchange.
Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange has converted itself into a holding company and will be renamed Saudi Tadawul Group ahead of the listing this year, Group Chief Executive Khalid al-Hussan said previously.
The group has four subsidiaries – its bourse Saudi Exchange, securities clearing and depository businesses and technology services.
SNB Capital Co, JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) Saudi Arabia and Citigroup (NYSE:C) Saudi Arabia are acting as financial Advisors, joint global coordiantors, underwriters and bookrunners.
($1 = 3.7504 riyals)
Source: Investing.com
