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Reddit prices IPO at top of indicated range to raise $748 million

by March 21, 2024
March 21, 2024
Reddit prices IPO at top of indicated range to raise $748 million

Social media platform Reddit priced its initial public offering at the top of its targeted range of $31 to $34 per share on Wednesday, raising $748 million and giving the ailing technology IPO market a much-needed boost.

Reddit and its existing shareholders sold 22 million shares at $34 a share, giving Reddit a valuation of about $6.4 billion.

To tap retail investors, Reddit reserved 8% of the total shares on offer for eligible users and moderators on its platform, certain board members and friends and family members of its employees and directors.

Excluding the shares sold by existing shareholders, Reddit raised gross proceeds of $519.4 million from its IPO. Reuters reported earlier on Thursday that Reddit and its bankers were guiding they could price the IPO at the top of the indicated range or above.

The top-end pricing is a vindication of the company’s decision to lower its valuation expectations, after it was valued at $10 billion in a private fundraising round in 2021.

The successful offerings of Reddit and Astera Labs could boost the lackluster tech IPO market after two years of largely subdued activity. Earlier this year, the stock market launches of other big names including KKR-backed BrightSpring and sportswear brand Amer Sports received a lukewarm reception from investors.

 

LOYAL USER BASE

Despite the loyalty of many of its users, Reddit has lost money every year since its launch in 2005 and has lagged the commercial success of contemporaries such as Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Twitter, now known as X.

The focus of many Reddit users on niche subjects and the platform’s somewhat loose approach to content moderation has been a sticking point with some advertisers.

As it looks for new revenue sources, Reddit in February unveiled a $66 million contract to provide artificial intelligence training data to Alphabet’s Google.

Reddit, however, said last week the US Federal Trade Commission was conducting an inquiry focused on the company’s sale, licensing, and sharing of user-generated content with third parties to train AI models.

Reddit relies on volunteers from its user base to moderate the content posted on its forums.

Moderators can decide to withdraw from their duty at any time, as in 2023, when several quit in protest over Reddit’s decision to charge third-party app developers for access to its data.

Reddit’s 100,000 online forums, dubbed “subreddits,” allow conversations on topics ranging from “the sublime to the ridiculous, the trivial to the existential, the comic to the serious,” according to co-founder and chief executive Steve Huffman.

The company’s influential communities are best known for the “meme-stock” saga of 2021 when several retail investors collaborated on Reddit’s “wallstreetbets” forum to buy shares of highly shorted companies such as video game retailer GameStop GME.N.

Reddit had an average of 73.1 million daily active “uniques” – users who use its platform at least once a day – in the three months ended Dec. 31, 2023, according to a regulatory filing.

Reddit’s shares are expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under the ticker ‘RDDT’.

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America are the lead underwriters for Reddit’s offering. Morgan Stanley also won the lead role on Astera’s IPO. – Reuters

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