Investor excitement over the memory chip trade is setting outsize expectations for the Shanghai debut of CXMT Corp., which is on the brink of making history after a near-record initial public offering.
The company formerly known as ChangXin Memory Technologies Corp. is poised to become the biggest China-listed firm on its very first day of trading after raising 66.6 billion yuan ($9.8 billion). Valuation multiples, a well oversubscribed IPO and shadow market bets all point in the direction of a debut pop that could boost the company’s market value several times above the initial 580 billion yuan.