Xiaomi shares dropped by 2.9 percent on the first day of its IPO listing
FirstpostXiaomi priced its Hong Kong initial public offering at HK$17 per share, the bottom of an indicative range. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp’s shares dropped 2.9 percent on debut in Hong Kong on 9 July, in a blow to investor sentiment for the tech sector as a raft of peers line up their own listings in the city. Xiaomi priced its Hong Kong initial public offering at HK$17 per share, the bottom of an indicative range, raising $4.72 billion in the world’s biggest technology float in four years. Xiaomi’s listing comes at a delicate time for Hong Kong’s stock market, with the benchmark Hang Seng index falling 2.7 percent last week and 5.8 percent this year as investors fret over escalating trade tensions between the United States and China. By contrast, China Literature Ltd, the e-book arm of Chinese gaming and social media firm Tencent Holdings, late last year raised $1.1 billion for its Hong Kong IPO amid heavy demand, with the retail portion being 625 times oversubscribed.