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Venture Global Inc. slashed the marketed range for its initial public offering, lowering the market value it could fetch.
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Bloomberg News
Ruth Liao and Bailey Lipschultz
Published Jan 22, 2025 • 1 minute read
(Bloomberg) — Venture Global Inc. slashed the marketed range for its initial public offering, lowering the market value it could fetch.
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The liquefied natural gas exporter is marketing 70 million shares in the offering for $23 to $27 each, a more than 40% drop from the $40 to $46 per share range it had targeted earlier, according to an earlier filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At the top of the new range, the company would now would have a market value of about $65 billion, down from the $110 billion mark at the top of the previous range, based on the outstanding shares.
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The lower pricing would come as a setback for potential IPO candidates in the US energy sector, which have been looking to Venture Global’s offering to help revive sentiment around first-time share sales in the sector. Just six energy IPOs priced on US exchanges in 2024, raising $667 million to mark the lowest volume for the sector in 21 years, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Still, Venture Global is targeting a lofty valuation relative to competitors. Cheniere Energy Inc., the largest LNG exporter in the US, has a market value of $56 billion after jumping more than 50% over the past year.
Venture Global had net income of $756 million in the nine months ended Sept. 30 on revenue of $3.4 billion, versus net income of $3.6 billion on revenue of $6.3 billion in the same period in 2023, according to the filing.
LNG is expected to play an increasingly central role in global energy markets in the years ahead, as nations seek a cleaner-burning alternative to oil and coal. The US’s position as the world’s largest supplier of the fuel is poised to grow even stronger, as Donald Trump’s return to the White House was accompanied by a sweeping overhaul of US energy policy to return the emphasis to fossil-fuel production.
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