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Chinese language EV maker Nio completes fast-path Hong Kong inventory debut with out elevating new price range

Nio’s et5 electrical sedan is about to start out deliveries in Sept. 2022.

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Stocks of Chinese language electric-vehicle maker Nio started buying and selling on Hong Kong’s alternate on Thursday, after the corporate selected a shortcut direction to list that did not contain elevating new price range.

That direction, known as an inventory “by means of creation,” allowed Nio’s stocks to start out buying and selling not up to two weeks after it introduced its plan to record in Hong Kong. The inventory closed at HK$158.90 in its first day of buying and selling, in comparison to a detailed of $20.17 ($HK157.72) for its New York-listed American depositary stocks on Wednesday.

Nio’s U.S.-listed stocks rallied to near up about 12.2% on Wednesday, however had been nonetheless down about 36.3% this yr via Wednesday’s shut.

Nio joins a rising record of U.S.-traded Chinese language firms that experience selected to record on Hong Kong’s alternate in contemporary months, observed so as to hedge towards the danger of being delisted from U.S. exchanges amid rising U.S.-China tensions. Two of Nio’s U.S.-traded home competitors, Xpeng and Li Auto, each indexed at the Hong Kong alternate final yr.

Chinese language ride-hailing corporate DiDi World, beneath force from its house executive, introduced plans to delist from the New York Inventory Change in December.

Each Xpeng and Li Auto selected extra conventional paths to their Hong Kong listings, elevating $2.1 billion and $1.5 billion respectively. However Nio, which ended the 3rd quarter of 2021 with $7.3 billion in money readily available and raised an extra $1.7 billion in an at-the-market providing in New York in November, did not really feel the want to carry additional money with its Hong Kong buying and selling debut.

Nio will document its fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 profits after the U.S. markets shut March 24.