Arm’s IPO valuation rests on big dose of hope
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Reuters
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:46.3 | I mean, I think what's really important to know about this IPO is it's kind of true for all IPOs that, you know, you're buying something on faith a little bit. It hasn't been in the public markets for, you know, ages and ages. |
| 0:50.3 | There's a lot of stuff that you have to sort of take a punt on. |
| 0:53.3 | But that's |
| 0:54.8 | especially true with Arm. Arm is finally ready to list its stock in the US. The equity valuation |
| 1:01.6 | could be as low as $50 billion, considerably below what had been expected. The implications of this |
| 1:08.2 | lowball valuation on its current owner SoftBank and the wider IPO market is the focus of this week's Viewsroom. |
| 1:17.1 | Welcome back to the Viewsroom, a podcast from Reuters breaking views where columnists from around the world talk about the big stories of the week. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm your host, Amy Donnellan, coming to you from London. |
| 1:28.8 | Arm is the hot topic in the global IPO market. It is all the ingredients for a gripping drama, |
| 1:35.3 | an interesting seller in Japan's soft bank, as well as debate about what the company is worth |
| 1:40.2 | today versus its potential. And here to unpick all of these elements is Liam Proud, |
| 1:45.9 | an editor at Breaking Views, and Karen Kwok, our technology expert. |
| 1:56.6 | Liam, Karen, you are very welcome. Great to be here. Well, listen, it's been less than a month since |
| 2:02.9 | we looked at Arm, but as I said, this is a massive IPO that is happening. The IPO market has been |
| 2:09.9 | pretty lackluster. So definitely an interesting one for our listeners and for investors that are |
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