The global financial market is awaiting on Sunday the historic launch of
the world's largest oil company with the start of the IPO in a part of the
capital of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), amid the stimulus of
Saudi and foreign investors for the price of the highest band to start to
participate in the shares of «Saudi Aramco», the most important company in
the country.
The announced timetable showed that the offering period for individuals
and institutions and the construction of the order book starts on the 17th
of November (November), which will expire on the fourth of December
(December) next to the institutions segment, while the subscription of
individuals will close on the 28th of this month.
The poll of 24 money managers By Bloomberg News, more than 40% have set
the company's fair range between $ 1.2 trillion and $ 1.5 trillion. This
is less than the figure of about $ 1.7 trillion, and it is said that Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman is ready to accept now, after reducing the
original overall target of $ 2 trillion.
The company said in a newsletter recently announced that the price of the
final offering and the percentage of shares offered will be determined
after the completion of the order book construction phase, in the meantime
individuals and institutions, Saudis and foreigners, will subscribe to the
upper limit of the price range specified by the institutions subscribed in
the process of building a record The orders are expected to be announced
as soon as the subscription begins.
The company said earlier that its target for individuals is to allocate a
maximum of 0.5 percent of the total shares of the company to the
individual underwriting, while the number of shares of the company 200
billion shares, capital of 60 billion riyals ($ 16 billion), to be the
total expected Individuals have one billion shares.
The prospectus stresses that there is no minimum or maximum number of IPOs
that can be subscribed by subscribed institutions, while the minimum
subscription for individuals is 10 and there is no maximum, in an expected
move to raise between $ 20 and $ 40 billion, according to the prospectus.
For unofficial predictions. According to the company, the IPO surplus will
be refunded if it exists no later than the 12th of next month.
Saudi Aramco, the largest exporter of crude oil in the world, comes amid
many priorities. For the first time, a stock is offered on the Saudi stock
market without specifying its nominal value. Individual subscription will
be for 10 days while institutions will take 14 working days.
One of Saudi Aramco's priorities is that it is among all IPOs on the Saudi
stock market that any non-Saudi natural person residing in the kingdom can
subscribe to.
Depending on the size of the IPO, Saudi Aramco's largest IPO will not be
on the Saudi market but even in the history of the global offering, with
the 2014 IPO of Alibaba expected to exceed $ 21.7 billion ($ 81.6
billion). Rial).
Initial forecasts suggest that Saudi Aramco's IPO will surpass the largest
number of subscribers in a single IPO listed on the local stock market by
Emaar the Economic City by 10 million subscribers in 2006. Observers
believe that the Aramco IPO will see widespread public and foreign
participation. For the company's reputation and value and the desire of
investors to own shares in the largest oil company in the world.
The Saudi Aramco IPO will surpass the IPO of National Commercial Bank,
which took place in October 2014 and is the largest in the domestic market
in terms of receipts of 22.5 billion riyals ($ 6 billion). The Saudi stock
market has witnessed throughout the history of huge offers, but does not
reach the level of the market witnessed on Sunday, represented in the
initial offerings and capital increase.
Leading the IPO in terms of volume and value, the National Commercial
Bank's IPO in 2014 in which 500 million shares were offered, while the
capital of Riyad Bank in 2008 witnessed an increase of 13.1 billion riyals
($ 3.4 billion). 10.5 billion riyals ($ 2.8 billion) on 1 billion shares.
The company recently pointed out its value added globally as the cheapest
oil producer with an average crude oil production cost of 10.6 riyals ($
2.8) per barrel of oil equivalent in 2018, compared to the cost of
production data in the five major international oil companies.
She pointed out that the average capital expenditure incurred by the
company in the exploration and production sector last year amounted to
17.7 riyals ($ 4.7) per barrel produced from oil equivalent, noting that
its reserves of crude oil and condensate amounted to 201 billion barrels
and 25 billion barrels of natural gas liquids. And 185 trillion standard
cubic feet of natural gas.
On the other hand, the Reuters news agency said that the international
rating companies and indices revealed to them the acceleration of the
inclusion of «Aramco» in its indexes in a maximum period of the end of
December.
According to documents seen by Reuters, M is likely to accelerate. S. C.
A, the world's largest market index firm, which is being tracked or used
as an index by funds with trillions of dollars of assets around the world,
to include the newly listed oil company Aramco but declined to comment on
Aramco.
FTSE Russell and Standard & Poor's Dow Jones began incorporating Saudi
stocks into their emerging market indices in March. S. C. The Saudi
bourse, to its Emerging Markets Index in August, weighed 2.8 per cent,
while briefing its clients, Standard & Poor's - Dow Jones, that the
company is big enough to accelerate its inclusion in its global
benchmarks. The minimum market capitalization adjusted in light of free
circulation is at least $ 2 billion.
According to documents seen by Reuters, M is likely to accelerate. S. C.
The world's largest market index firm, which is being tracked or used as
an index by funds with trillions of dollars of assets around the world to
include the newly listed oil company Aramco, has declined to comment on
Aramco.
FTSE Russell and Standard & Poor's Dow Jones began incorporating Saudi
stocks into their emerging market indices in March, while M&D added.
S. C. Saudi Arabia's stock exchange index rose to 2.8 per cent in August,
while S&P - Dow Jones briefly noted that the Saudi company is big
enough to accelerate its inclusion in its global benchmarks based on the
minimum market capitalization adjusted in light of Free trading at least
two billion dollars.
Standard & Poor's is expected to exclude the requirement that 10 per
cent of shares be traded to investors as Aramco will only offer less than
5 per cent, pointing out that the Index Committee has reviewed this
situation and decided that given the expected size and liquidity of this
IPO, Saudi Aramco will be excluded from External Availability Rule If all
other benchmark criteria are met to accelerate the IPO's inclusion in the
Dow Jones Standard & Poor's global benchmarks.
Source: Aramco
Source: Aramco

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