From iii Chinese shares up in US14 Aug 2014 19:28
With U.S. listings of Chinese Internet companies already at a record high this year, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s highly anticipated New York initial public offering will encourage even more Chinese Internet listings in the U.S., writes Prudence Ho in Wednesday’s Moneybeat column:
The volume of Chinese Internet-company IPOs in the U.S. has hit $3.4 billion for the year to date, higher than in any previous full year, according to Dealogic. Chinese listings in the U.S. fell to a five-year low in 2012, after a spate of accounting and fraud scandals marred the reputation of Chinese companies a year earlier. Offerings didn’t pick up until late in 2013.
The largest Chinese Internet listing in the U.S. so far this year was e-commerce firm JD.com Inc.’s $2 billion May IPO on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Shares of the unprofitable Alibaba rival have risen more than 50% since its listing.
Weibo Corp., which listed in April, is up around 18% since then. And shares in Vipshop Holdings Ltd., which raised $73 million in its March 2012 IPO, are up more than 30-fold since the Chinese online retailer went public.
This buoyant performance among U.S.-listed Chinese Internet stocks will draw peers to follow suit, say bankers, but other factors are in play as well.
Could be the same here !