IPOs: These companies want to venture onto the trading floor in 2023

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• Stock exchanges will attract many newcomers in 2023
• Numerous stock market aspirants from the tech industry

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Arm is scheduled to go public in the first quarter of 2023. According to a report by the Financial Times, the owner Softbank, which acquired Arm in 2016 for $32 billion, is now aiming for a share placement in London and New York after the planned takeover of the British company by the US industry giant NVIDIA due to the Resistance from the competition authorities burst. As company boss Rene Haas revealed to the “Financial Times”, he wants to use the proceeds from the IPO to expand business with the automotive industry, among other things. In addition, Arm is to be strengthened with chips for data centers and technology for displaying virtual worlds.

The technology from the British chip designer is also found in most smartphones. For example, Apple and Samsung use the chip architectures designed by Arm for their processors. QUALCOMM, whose chips are installed in many Android phones, also uses it. As Cristiano Amon, the CEO of the chip group, told the “Financial Times”, he wants to use the announced IPO to participate in Arm.

ionos

In the first half of 2023, the Internet service provider United Internet also wants to list its cloud and web hosting subsidiary Ionos on the stock exchange and, according to circles, is aiming for a valuation of around four billion euros. After the strong growth of recent years, an IPO is the next step, which reflects the positioning of Ionos as a leading digitization partner for freelancers and small and medium-sized companies and as a powerful European cloud provider, United Internet explained the reasons for the IPO plans.

Ionos sales amounted to 1.06 billion euros in 2021 and, according to the parent company, should grow by around 10 percent annually in the medium term. Furthermore, the cloud and web hosting provider should achieve an adjusted operating margin of over 30 percent in the medium term.

Solaris

Furthermore, the IPO of Solaris is scheduled to take place in 2023. The Berlin fintech, founded in 2016, has a full banking license from BaFin, but still wants to be perceived as a tech company, not as a traditional bank. It operates a rentable banking platform and offers its banking license to other financial start-ups. In this way, these other fintechs – although they do not have their own license – can offer their customers financial services via their apps and online services because Solaris is in the background. CEO Roland Folz had actually announced that Solaris would go public in 2022, but the poor market environment got in the way. Now, however, he could achieve this goal in 2023.

Best in parking

Best in Parking AG, which is backed by the well-known Viennese entrepreneurial family Breiteneder, is to be listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange in the course of 2023. The garage empire (including parking apps) of Breiteneder Immobilien Parking AG is a developer and operator of parking and mobility solutions in Austria and Southeast Europe. In Austria alone, it manages over 95 garages in Vienna, St. Pölten, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt. The Best in Parking range also includes e-charging stations that are operated entirely with green electricity, as well as two- and four-wheeled e-sharing vehicles. Customer data could also become relevant for the investment story of the share.

Ruag

A Swiss company that could have shares on the stock exchange in the course of 2023 is Ruag. The Bern-based technology group, which originally emerged from former maintenance and production facilities of the Swiss army and has undergone extensive restructuring, is mainly active in the aerospace and defense markets.

Sandoz

Another company that could add value to the Swiss stock market is Sandoz – Roche’s generics division. The pharmaceutical giant wants to spin off its business with biosimilars and over-the-counter medicines and list it as an independent company on the Swiss stock exchange in the second half of 2023. According to the company, this step will create the largest European generics company and a leading global supplier of biosimilars. Novartis, in turn, hopes that this measure will make it a more focused company.

amp

The chip manufacturer Ampere also wants to go public in the second half of 2023. Founded in 2018, the company aims to attack Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which currently dominate the data center and cloud computing chip market. Ampere currently offers Arm-based processors, but in the future the company wants to develop its own designs and CPU cores. You want to collect the funds required for this by means of an IPO.

Despite the poor market environment of the past few months, numerous aspirants want to venture onto the trading floor again. The stock market year 2023 seems to offer courageous investors many new opportunities.

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