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Luxshare raised HK$24.3B in Hong Kong — day one closed below the offer

Priced at HK$63.28, the top of the range, the Apple supplier opened lower, slid to HK$57.20 intraday and closed its HK debut 1.55% below the offer.

Luxshare Precision · 2026-07-09

What happened

Luxshare Precision — Shenzhen-listed since 2010, in Apple's supply chain since 2011, with 2025 revenue of ¥332.3 billion and net profit of ¥16.6 billion — sold H-shares on 9 July 2026 at HK$63.28, the top of its indicative range, raising HK$24.266 billion: the largest Hong Kong IPO of the year to that point. Twenty-six cornerstones, led by Temasek, GIC and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and including Hillhouse, Tencent and Fidelity International, took about HK$11.75 billion — 48.44% of the offer, locked up.

The debut broke the offer almost immediately: the shares opened at HK$63.25, fell as far as HK$57.20 (−9.61%) intraday and closed at HK$62.30, 1.55% below the IPO price. A retail buyer of one 100-share lot was HK$98 underwater on day one, and the stock had still not recovered the offer by mid-afternoon of the second day.

The pricing left no cushion. At less than 15% under its A-share after currency conversion, the H-share offered a thinner discount than peers — Lingyi iTech's H-share, by comparison, traded about 44% below its A-share. Seven listings shared the same day, splitting demand, the tech sector was correcting, and investors still discounted the company's dependence on Apple, which accounted for 56.7% of 2025 revenue, down from 73.3% in 2022 but far from diversified.

Why it happened

  • The offer was priced at the top of the range on cornerstone demand — with 48% of the deal locked up, day-one buying power came from a thin free float.
  • A discount of under 15% to the Shenzhen listing gave HK buyers little margin of safety for owning the same company twice.
  • Seven simultaneous listings and a tech-sector correction meant supply outnumbered demand at that price on the one day that mattered.
What it costclosed 1.55% below HK$63.28; hit −9.6% intradayembarrassing

The lesson

Cornerstones buy the deal, not the day after. When half the offer is locked up and the discount to the home listing is thin, the small float that remains sets the price — and it pays for nothing.

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