Zhongji Innolight shares drop after HK$6.8 billion IPO debut

Zhongji Innolight has priced its Hong Kong H-share offering at HK$980 per share and raised HK$53.41 billion, or about $6.81 billion. Trading is scheduled to begin on July 30, making the deal one of Hong Kong’s largest listings in years. Demand was already visible before the debut: the retail tranche was 9.17 times oversubscribed and […]

Zhongji Innolight fell on its trading debut after Hong Kong’s biggest initial public offering in seven years amid souring appetite worldwide for artificial intelligence (AI) shares. The stock closed down 2 per cent after earlier plunging as much as 10 per cent. Shenzhen-listed shares of Innolight, which supplies AI data-centre operators such as Amazon and Alphabet, tumbled 9.2 per cent, extending declines from a June peak to 38 per cent. Prior to the sell-off, the stock had surged almost 10-fold...

The Shenzhen-listed firm priced its shares at HK$980 on Thursday, raising HK$53.4 billion (US$6.8 billion) in the city's biggest IPO since Alibaba's 2019 listing.

Shares of Zhongji Innolight fell on Thursday after the Chinese optical transceiver maker made its trading debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Zhongji Innolight saw its share price drop as much as 3 per cent after its hotly anticipated debut on the Hong Kong stock market on Thursday, as the Chinese firm felt the impact of a global downturn in investor sentiment towards the artificial intelligence sector. By 9.33am, it dropped by 2.86 per cent to HK$953. The Chinese firm – a leading producer of optical transceivers used in AI data centres – had earlier completed Hong Kong’s biggest initial public offering of the year, raising HK$53.4...