Glencore Dips Below IPO Price On Second Day Of Trading
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/20/2011 12:26 -0400
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And while everyone is focused on the charade dot com resurgence courtesy of the LinkedIn IPO mockery, which is nothing but a VWAP magnet and a tool for Goldman to set a public comp benchmark for its plethora of upcoming "social" IPOs, things are a little uglier for the biggest IPO of 2011. In just its second day of trading, Glencore has already broken its IPO price. Reuters reports: "Shares in commodities trading group Glencore fell below their issue price of 530 pence on Friday, the second day of conditional trading, as investors fretted over its valuation. The world's largest diversified commodities trader touched a low of 519 pence in unofficial grey market trade before closing at 524 pence, down 1.1 percent after more than 200 million shares changed hands, underperfoming a virtually flat FTSE index and a 0.4 percent dip in the broad mining sector. "Basically, the valuation looks a little bit rich. They worked very hard to get a favourable price and one could argue the only reason it was up yesterday was support from the sponsoring banks," said analyst Nik Stanojevic at Brewin Dolphin. "I think the market feels the same way. It wasn't as if they sold this thing really cheaply with the expectation it would go up 50 percent on the first day." Fools: they should have just packaged GLEN as a social network for commodity speculators and Glencore would have been the world's largest market cap company already..
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