Review — New share issues in Ger­ma­ny 2018

Going Public + hv-maga­zi­ne | Spe­cial Capi­tal Mar­ket Law 2019 | The Refe­rence Work for Issuers | An artic­le by Dr. Kon­rad Bösl of Blätt­chen & Part­ner

The over­all con­di­ti­ons for new issues were poor in 2018. The DAX fell by almost 18% in the cour­se of the year, with the second half of the year alo­ne accoun­ting for a decli­ne of just under 14% in the face of high vola­ti­li­ty. Nevert­hel­ess, 2018 was a good year for new issues by Ger­man stan­dards. While Ger­ma­ny was still lag­ging behind inter­na­tio­nal deve­lo­p­ments in terms of new equi­ty issues in 2017, new issue acti­vi­ty in Ger­ma­ny was able to out­per­form both Euro­pe and the rest of the world in 2018. From Dr. Kon­rad Bösl.

While the num­ber of new issues fell by 21% world­wi­de and spe­ci­fi­cal­ly in Euro­pe by a good 16%, Ger­ma­ny was able to increase its new issues signi­fi­cant­ly over the pre­vious year (ele­ven) with 17 new issues.
In con­trast, the volu­me of new issues world­wi­de rose by 6%, due to a num­ber of bil­li­on-euro issues, main­ly from the tech­no­lo­gy sec­tor. In Euro­pe, on the other hand, the volu­me of new issues fell by 17%. Ger­ma­ny was able to more than qua­dru­ple the issue volu­me to EUR 11.25 bil­li­on com­pared with the pre­vious year. Despi­te this posi­ti­ve deve­lo­p­ment in Ger­ma­ny, one must not lose sight of pro­por­tio­na­li­ty: In the USA the­re were more than 200 new issues in 2018, in Chi­na inclu­ding Hong Kong a good 300 despi­te a mas­si­ve slump — in Ger­ma­ny just men­tio­ned 17.

New equi­ty issues in Ger­ma­ny

In 2018 the­re were three new issues in Ger­ma­ny — Sie­mens Healt­hi­neers, DWS and Knorr-Brem­se — with an issue volu­me in excess of one bil­li­on euros (pre­vious year: 0), accoun­ting for a good 81% or EUR 9.35 bil­li­on of the total issue volu­me. Sie­mens Healt­hi­neers and Knorr-Brem­se, the offe­red shares were the fourth and fifth lar­gest new issues in Ger­ma­ny to date. Fif­teen issuers cho­se the Prime Stan­dard and two the Sca­le tra­ding seg­ment for lis­ting. 14 issuers offe­red their shares in a book­buil­ding pro­cess and three at a fixed pri­ce. Half of the issuers suc­cee­ded in pla­cing the shares offe­red in the upper third of the book­buil­ding ran­ge at the time of their IPO. For 14% of the issuers, the issue pri­ce was set in the midd­le third and for 36% of the issuers in the lower third of the book­buil­ding ran­ge. The­se rati­os rough­ly cor­re­spond to the figu­res for new issues in 2017. For the first time sin­ce June 2016, the world mar­ket lea­der in house­hold appli­ances Qing­dao Hai­er Co, Ltd. Hai­er is alre­a­dy lis­ted on the Shang­hai Stock Exch­an­ge, so the IPO was car­ri­ed out as a secon­da­ry lis­ting com­bi­ned with a capi­tal increase with D‑shares on the lar­ge­ly unknown Ger­man-Chi­ne­se stock exch­an­ge plat­form CEINEX (Chi­na Euro­pe Inter­na­tio­nal Exch­an­ge AG), which was foun­ded three years ago. In view of the bad expe­ri­en­ces with IPOs of Chi­ne­se com­pa­nies in Ger­ma­ny, the per­for­mance of this blue-chip stock from Chi­na was also poor. In total, the 17 new issues pla­ced 623.4 mil­li­on shares with inves­tors. Of the­se, 398 mil­li­on shares or 64% (pre­vious year also 64%) came from a capi­tal increase (pri­ma­ry shares) and 225.4 mil­li­on shares or 36% from the re-pla­ce­ment of shares of the for­mer owners (secon­da­ry shares). Only the three issuers with an issue volu­me of more than one bil­li­on shares offe­red 201.5 mil­li­on shares exclu­si­ve­ly from the hol­dings of the for­mer owners and thus have a mas­si­ve influence on the ratio of capi­tal increase to pla­ce­ment. With the excep­ti­on of the green­shoe, seven new issues did not invol­ve a pla­ce­ment of the exis­ting shares. All in all, the high pro­por­ti­on of pri­ma­ry shares, espe­ci­al­ly if the bil­li­on new issues are dis­re­gard­ed, shows that issuers use the IPO pri­ma­ri­ly to streng­then their equi­ty base and cor­po­ra­te finan­cing.

Sub­scrip­ti­on gains accep­ta­ble

The sub­scrip­ti­on pro­fits and the deve­lo­p­ment of the share pri­ces until the end .

The com­ple­te artic­le can be found here as pdf. Read.

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