IPOs in 2019 – A com­ple­te Dis­ap­point­ment

Blätt­chen & Part­ner pres­ents its annu­al review of new issues in 2019.

After the medi­cal tech­no­lo­gy com­pa­ny Dia­Mon­Tech had to can­cel its IPO at the end of the sub­scrip­ti­on peri­od due to insuf­fi­ci­ent demand, the new issue year 2019 has come to an end in Ger­ma­ny. A dis­ap­poin­ting year for all mar­ket par­ti­ci­pan­ts and espe­ci­al­ly for the new share­hol­ders of new issues.

• World­wi­de slump in new issue acti­vi­ty (- 56 % com­pared to pre­vious year)
• New issues in Ger­ma­ny down by more than 75 %
• Only one new issue with posi­ti­ve per­for­mance
• Nine can­cel­led or with­drawn IPOs

World­wi­de, the num­ber of new issues fell by 56 % in the first nine months, and in Ger­ma­ny by more than 75 %. 2019 is the wea­k­est year for new issues in Ger­ma­ny sin­ce the finan­cial and eco­no­mic cri­sis in 2009, with the pla­ce­ment volu­me of all new issues amoun­ting to appro­xi­m­ate­ly € 3.6 bil­li­on, down 68 % on the pre­vious year. The num­ber of nine can­cel­led or post­po­ned IPOs is more than twice as high as the num­ber of new issues. The can­cel­led issue volu­me is well over € 2 bil­li­on.

A total of four IPO can­di­da­tes made it to the stock exch­an­ge, in some cases only with sub­stan­ti­al chan­ges to the ori­gi­nal­ly plan­ned issuing con­cept and a lower pla­ce­ment volu­me than desi­red. Nevert­hel­ess, inves­tors suf­fe­r­ed pri­ce los­ses on the majo­ri­ty of the new issues. In gene­ral, the per­for­mance of the few new issues was poor:

• No new issue per­for­med bet­ter than the mar­ket as a who­le,
• No new issue was able to rea­li­se a sub­scrip­ti­on pro­fit,
• No new issue was able to place the green­shoe com­ple­te­ly on the mar­ket

Stu­dy “Cri­ti­cal review of new stock issues 2019” as pdf.
Press release as pdf.

Press:
Dr. Kon­rad Bösl | office@blaettchen.de | T: +49 (0)89 210 294 60

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