RE: Lucyd BOD formed for IPO24 Aug 2021 22:13
Evening mogli
Enjoyed reading your post, but not sure there would necessarily be a difference in a company's value pre/post floatation - it would really just depend on the IPO price??
If I may borrow your example, a company with a £100m NAV valuation decides to float, 100m shares in total, but the company retains 25% = 25m shares, sells the remaining 75m shares to the market at IPO of £1 each, then the total the shares would be worth is £100m
The coy would go from a NAV of £100m to a Market Cap of £100m - more likely than an IPO price of £4 because in essence the company would be asking the market to pay £400m for something valued at £100m, which may not be well received...
To echo you, I could be totally wrong here
If only it were that simple for a potential float of Lucyd, TEK own 100% of Lucyd, Lucyd own 80% of Innovative Eyewear and Innovative Eyewear have crowdfunded twice (to my knowledge) so Innovative Eyewear have their own stakeholders, that being said you have to applaud the job TEK have done, the monies they have invested are set to be returned in multiples, by the look of things
GLA
Stu