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China Mobile shares edge higher in Shanghai debut -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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© Reuters. FILEPHOTO: China Mobile signs are seen along a Shanghai street on the 4th of January 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China Mobile Ltd shares lost strong gains in the early stages but ended the day higher on Wednesday in Shanghai after China Mobile Ltd raised 48.7 Billion Yuan ($7.64 Billion) in China’s largest public share sale in a decade.

Stock opened at 63 Yuan. This is 9.4% more than the offer price at 57.58 Yuan. However, the stock closed 0.52% lower at 57.88 Yuan.

Hong Kong-listed shares of the carrier were 3.33% more expensive. According to a Tuesday filing by the company, it stated in an announcement that it was continuing to implement a plan to purchase back nearly $23 billion worth of shares.

Tsz Tam, an analyst with DBS Vickers Hong Kong said the share buyback announcement on Wednesday had helped the company’s share prices rise, but warned against interpreting too much into the immediate performance.

China Mobile’s (NYSE:) debut was closely followed by many Chinese companies, BeiGene (NASDAQ:) Ltd saw its shares drop below their offer prices in the last day of trading.

China Mobile was the largest global mobile network operator in terms of total subscribers. It had sold 845.7million shares for 57.58 each in Shanghai.

China Mobile stated that it will use the proceeds of the offer to fund projects such as premium 5G networks and infrastructure for cloud resources.

($1 = 6.3721 yuan)

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