Nymex in record IPO
Shares in Nymex Holdings more than doubled on the first day of trading to become the hottest US IPO since 2000.
Nymex had earlier announced an initial public offering of 6,500,000 shares of its common stock priced at $59 per share. On their first day of trading, the shares soared upwards by $77, or 131 percent, to $136 at 12:09 pm, according to Bloomberg data. The company had earlier forecast that shares would sell somewhere in the region of $48-$52.
The IPO marks a new chapter for the owner of the world’s largest energy market, ending 130 years as a private, member owned physical commodity futures exchange. One of the last
Nymex in particular is benefiting from surging demand for energy and commodities contracts worldwide. Based on today’s trading its current market capitalization stands at somewhere in the $12 billion region, behind the $18.5 billion market capitalization for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the $16.3 billion for the Deutsche Boerse, the $14.9 billion for the New York Stock Exchange.
The closing of the offering is scheduled to take place on November 22, 2006.
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