Kcell underlines IPO recovery

Kcell underlines IPO recovery

Kcell began trading with a 5.25% first day gain after pricing a $525m London and Kazakhstan IPO at the bottom of its price range on Wednesday, performance that is line with the European market’s 2012 average.

Trading on a when-issued basis, 4.4m shares changed hands with the close at $11.05 a GDR from the issue price of $10.50.

Of the 19 IPOs on European exchanges of $100m or more, only four have traded down on their first day — although six are now below their offer prices. Modest, but positive, first day performance has been more common with now 11 deals in the 0%-10% range.

The weighted average first day performance of the 18 IPOs to have started trading — with Poland’s Alior Bank yet to come — is 4.7%. In 2011 it was just 0.5%.

One-week returns are 6.6% on average, and offer-to-date returns are 11.1%, according to Dealogic data and EuroWeek calculations.



Issuer

Deal Value $ (m)

% Change Price Offer/1 Day

% Change Price Offer/1 Week

% Change Price Offer/Current

Brunello Cucinelli

229.74

49.68

41.94

74.58

Ziggo

1,219.59

14.86

21.57

33.95

Inside Secure

103.48

10.84

9.64

-62.05

Eland Oil & Gas

187.21

8.50

7.50

13.50

Direct Line

1,449.35

7.43

10.29

17.71

DKSH

987.06

6.25

1.35

36.04

Kcell

525.07

5.24

n/a

n/a

EFG Financial Products

157.48

4.67

7.22

0.00

Telefonica Deutschland

1,874.64

3.57

5.98

4.46

Talanx

664.29

1.09

6.48

15.74

MD Medical Group

289.22

0.75

-0.50

-6.25

Banco BTG Pactual

1,726.41

0.64

-2.08

-4.64

Sherborne B

331.78

0.50

0.50

0.50

NMC Health

206.41

0.00

9.40

-16.76

ZE PAK

216.00

-1.15

-3.44

0.38

Borregaard

301.48

-1.43

-7.14

-2.86

MegaFon

1,690.54

-2.00

6.50

10.50

RusPetro

233.37

-5.22

-4.29

-37.87

Alior Bank

658.81

n/a

n/a

n/a

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