Daily BriefsECM

Equity Capital Markets: Grab and more

In today’s briefing:

  • GoTo: A Private Placement Larger Than the IPO and a 10% Potential Dilution

GoTo: A Private Placement Larger Than the IPO and a 10% Potential Dilution

By Shifara Samsudeen, ACMA, CGMA

  • Superapp GoTo (GOTO IJ) on Friday announced that it plans to issue 118.4bn shares through a private placement subject to shareholder approval.
  • This fresh issue accounts for 9.9% of the total outstanding shares of the company and the announcement comes 2-months after the company’s US$1.1bn IPO in March this year.
  • GoTo’s shares are down 20.4% since its IPO and the shares are trading IDR304 a piece, well below its IPO price of IDR338 per share.

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