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China Shenhua Group starts three-day IPO price bidding
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-19 16:02
China Shenhua Group, the country's largest coal producer, began Wednesday
to accept bids that will determine the price of shares in its initial
public offering (IPO).
The bidding opens to institutional investors and will last through
Friday, the China Securities Journal reported Wednesday.
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The newspaper said the offering will open to subscriptions from
institutional investors next Monday and Tuesday and open to those from
individual investors next Tuesday.
The coal producer would sell up to 630 million shares, 35 percent of the
IPO, to institutional investors and the remainder to individual investors.
On Monday, the China Securities Regulatory Commission gave go-ahead to
China Shenhua's IPO plan to issue up to 1.8 billion A shares.
If its A-share price was the same as its H-share price, which closed at
HK$39.5 on Tuesday, the IPO could raise 69 billion yuan (US$9.2 billion),
said analysts.
This would then make it the largest A-share listing ever, exceeding the
58.05 billion yuan of the China Construction Bank, the country's second
largest commercial bank.
The government is encouraging China's red-chip companies to launch
yuan-denominated A-share IPOs amid efforts to absorb excess liquidity and
help cool the heated stock market that has more than doubled since the
beginning of the year.
The company said it would use the proceeds to build or upgrade its coal,
power and transportation systems and purchase strategic assets.
By the end of this June, it had proven reserves of 5.99 billion metric
tons mainly in northern China's Shanxi province and Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region.
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