(Bloomberg) -- Affirm Holdings Inc. jumped as much as 94% in its public market debut, the latest multibillion-dollar technology company to start trading significantly higher than its initial public offering price.
The San Francisco-based company, which provides installment loans to online shoppers, opened at $90.90 on Wednesday in New York and traded as high as $95. It sold 24.6 million shares at $49 each in Tuesday’s IPO to raise $1.2 billion, pricing the stock above a range that had already been increased.
At the opening, Affirm has a market capitalization of about $22 billion and a fully diluted valuation of $28 billion, which includes options and restricted stock units, according to Bloomberg calculations.
Airbnb Inc. and DoorDash Inc. each soared above their IPO prices when they went public in December, showing the appetite for tech listings -- especially among retail investors -- and raising questions about how the deals were priced. Airbnb currently trades about 150% higher than its listing at a market value of more than $100 billion, while DoorDash is up about 90%.
Founded in 2017 by PayPal Holdings Inc.’s co-founder Max Levchin, the company counts Singapore’s GIC Pte, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund and Shopify Inc. among shareholders. Levchin remains the biggest shareholder after the listing.
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Allen & Co. led Affirm’s IPO. Its shares are trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol AFRM.
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