Investing.com– Ascentage Pharma Group Worldwide (HK:6855) shares plunged on Friday in Hong Kong buying and selling, as traders turned cautious forward of the biotech agency’s American Depositary Shares (ADS) debut on the Nasdaq later within the day.
The sell-off underscores investor warning as the corporate prepares for its U.S. itemizing, which can permit world traders to commerce its shares extra simply.
China-based Ascentage Pharma, which makes a speciality of most cancers therapies, had on Tuesday introduced the pricing of its ADS providing at $20.34 per share, aiming to boost round $149 million, however lowered the pricing to $17.25 every on Friday to boost $126 million.
Hong Kong-listed shares of the corporate fell 12.5% to HK$36.55 as of 05:43 GMT.
Ascentage is backed by Japan’s largest drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (TYO:4502)
The agency plans to make use of the proceeds from the ADS sale to advance scientific trials, analysis, and growth of its focused therapies and apoptosis-based drug candidates. Nonetheless, issues about market volatility and the potential dilution of shares have weighed on investor sentiment, contributing to the sharp decline.
This providing marks the most recent transfer in a pattern of twin listings by Chinese language biotech companies searching for to broaden their investor base and lift capital from U.S. markets.
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