The Klarna payment service goes to the stock exchange on Wall Street.
The company from Sweden submitted a stock market brochure in the United States. This shows, among other things, that Klarna increased sales by 24 percent last year to a good $ 2.8 billion. The bottom line was that there was a profit of $ 21 million after red numbers of $ 244 million a year earlier.
Among other things, Klarna started with the offer to simplify paying in online trading by buying on account. The company was also a pioneer of the model “Buy now, pay later”. Klarna makes money, for example, with interest in installments. As of the deadline at the end of last year, Klarna came to 93 million active customers.
In the stock market prospectus, there was initially no information on the targeted evaluation or the volume of stock placement. The Bloomberg financial service reported last week that Klarna wanted to take at least one billion dollars during the IPO and strives for an overall rating of more than $ 15 billion. In a financing round in 2021, Klarna was still evaluated with more than $ 45 billion.
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