D&B Seeks to Raise up to $1.38B in IPO

Dun & Bradstreet is anticipating to raise up to $1.38 billion in an initial community supplying that would benefit the organization details and analytics business at as considerably as $eight.four billion.

D&B explained Wednesday in a regulatory submitting that it will supply 65.75 million shares at a price array of among $19 and $21 per share. The greater close of the goal array presents the business a valuation of $eight.forty one billion.

The internet proceeds from the IPO will be applied to redeem all or portion of the $1 billion in favored stock that D&B issued when an investor group took it private in a $6.9 billion deal in February 2019. Pursuing the completion of the IPO, the group will very own about two-thirds of D&B.

In accordance to Reuters, the business is “looking to experience the modern wave of thriving new listings right after the COVID-19 pandemic crushed the market for new difficulties.” The Renaissance IPO ETF has operate up 32.eight% year to day though the S&P 500 has misplaced four.7%.

D&B claims to have about one hundred thirty five,000 clients throughout the world and that its database has extensive details on extra than 360 million corporations.

“We are a market chief in business credit history decisioning, with lots of of the top corporations in the planet employing our alternatives to make educated selections when thinking of extending organization loans and trade credit history,” it explained in the IPO prospectus.

“We are also a foremost company of details and analytics to corporations wanting to assess provider associations and extra properly collect remarkable receivables,” D&B extra.

Considering the fact that D&B went private, its top management has been virtually solely changed by a new crew that, in accordance to the prospectus, “saw major option to build benefit by transforming the organization and enhancing the platform with new organization device leaders, increased engineering and details, solution innovation and a consumer-centric go-to-market approach.”

For the 3 months finished March 31, D&B’s revenue extra than doubled to $395.3 million from a year earlier though its working loss narrowed to $eight.3 million from $203 million.

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