GlobalFoundries Announces IPO
GlobalFoundries announced the commencement of its initial public offering of 55,000,000 ordinary shares, 33,000,000 of which are being offered by GF and 22,000,000 of which are being offered by GF's existing shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company PJSC
Pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The initial public offering price is currently expected to be between $42.00 and $47.00 per share. In connection with the offering, Mubadala expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 8,250,000 ordinary shares at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. GF has applied to list its ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "GFS."
Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and Credit Suisse are acting as active book-running managers for the proposed offering. Deutsche Bank Securities, HSBC and Jefferies are acting as additional book-running managers for the proposed offering. Baird, Cowen, Needham & Company, Raymond James, Wedbush Securities, Drexel Hamilton, Siebert Williams Shank and IMI - Intesa Sanpaolo are acting as co-managers for the proposed offering.
The proposed offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus, when available, may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014; BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-004-03-43, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 North College Street, 3rd Floor, Charlotte, NC 29255 or by email at dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com.; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at 866-803-9204 or by email at prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (800) 831-9146 or by email at prospectus@citi.com; or Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, Eleven Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10010, by telephone at 800-221-1037 or by email at usa.prospectus@credit-suisse.com.
A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements, which involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any of these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. GF undertakes no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this news release or to reflect actual outcomes, unless required by law.
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Their prospect says they have 500M shares. Selling 55k of them for $42-47 would mean the perceived value of of $21-23.5B.
The geographical risk is kinda low, as they have plants in EU and US, but US may help US-only companies.
They report that since 2018 they're on constant loss, but in 2021 it was the lowest. And they paid dividend in 2021. The research expenses were going down, which can be understood as they sold ASIC part and fired 7nm people. The demand is skyrocketing, but China and US may "suggest" their respectable manufacturers. Intel, TSMC, and Samsung are getting stronger too.
I'd love to invest in chip making, but this doesn't look like a safe profits source. On the other hand "good profit & low risk" investment offers are basically Ponzi schemes (unless you're a billionaire too rich to fail).
Can someone relate to this? It would be interesting for me to invest a tiny bit (can't do much more, as I don't count as bourgeoisie

well considering the current geo-political situation , Its relatively high risk , most of their fabs are in Singapore, if things turn sour in the asia-pacific region, going to be bad day for glofo, but maybe not as bad as everybody else so idk hard to say, definitely not something to put all of your chips in.
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Their prospect says they have 500M shares. Selling 55k of them for $42-47 would mean the perceived value of of $21-23.5B.
The geographical risk is kinda low, as they have plants in EU and US, but US may help US-only companies.
They report that since 2018 they're on constant loss, but in 2021 it was the lowest. And they paid dividend in 2021. The research expenses were going down, which can be understood as they sold ASIC part and fired 7nm people. The demand is skyrocketing, but China and US may "suggest" their respectable manufacturers. Intel, TSMC, and Samsung are getting stronger too.
I'd love to invest in chip making, but this doesn't look like a safe profits source. On the other hand "good profit & low risk" investment offers are basically Ponzi schemes (unless you're a billionaire too rich to fail).
Can someone relate to this? It would be interesting for me to invest a tiny bit (can't do much more, as I don't count as bourgeoisie

This seems like a high price for what feels like an IPO to save the company. Nope.
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btw, correction.. its not 55k but 55 million. That is 10-12% of the total (if 500M is correct). Everyone knows that they have 12nm process which is matured enough, and 10nm should be pretty achievable as well. With the ongoing global supply shortage and high demand .. they have plenty of orders at least for next 2-3 years. It seems they are now focusing on 5G, IoT, and other non-processor manufacturing.
This money they are raising, should help them cover some losses, and build a foundary or two..on next 7nm or 5nm... if all goes well. Not a bad hand if you ask me.
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Considering the global market for chip manufacturing isn't ever going to go away, it seems like a decent idea. Can GF stay relevant to current customer needs and be profitable though?
I'm very tempted to invest a few thousand dollars but...
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Their prospect says they have 500M shares. Selling 55k of them for $42-47 would mean the perceived value of of $21-23.5B.
The geographical risk is kinda low, as they have plants in EU and US, but US may help US-only companies.
They report that since 2018 they're on constant loss, but in 2021 it was the lowest. And they paid dividend in 2021. The research expenses were going down, which can be understood as they sold ASIC part and fired 7nm people. The demand is skyrocketing, but China and US may "suggest" their respectable manufacturers. Intel, TSMC, and Samsung are getting stronger too.
I'd love to invest in chip making, but this doesn't look like a safe profits source. On the other hand "good profit & low risk" investment offers are basically Ponzi schemes (unless you're a billionaire too rich to fail).
Can someone relate to this? It would be interesting for me to invest a tiny bit (can't do much more, as I don't count as bourgeoisie