Palantir IPO: Direct listing moved to September 29th

One of the most hotly-anticipated public offerings of the year is happening next week. Palantir, the secretive data analytics company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, will list on the NYSE under the symbol PLTR via a direct listing on September 29th.

The company originally planned to go public on September 23rd, but recently changed the date. Registered stockholders are expecting to sell up to 257 million Class A shares.

During 2020 Q3 around 36 million shares were sold privately at a volume-weighted average of $6.45. So far this year the company has privately raised $900 million at $4.65 per share. The company’s estimated value is between $18 billion and $26 billion.

Spotify and Slack are the only two other tech companies in recent years to have gone public via a direct listing. Palantir is using the same bank – Citadel Securities – that worked with them to help advise it during the process.

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