After setting its price at the top of the range, Dubai Taxi Company reported that it raised Dh1.2 billion (roughly $315 million) in its initial public offering.
Following the book building and public subscription process, DTC said in a statement on Wednesday that the final offer price was set at Dh1.85 per share, resulting in an offering size of approximately Dh1.2 billion for a total of 624.75 million shares, or 24.99 percent of the company’s total issued share capital.
The market capitalization of Dubai Taxi Company upon listing is anticipated to be Dh4.6 billion ($1.26 billion) based on the final offer price.
The initial public offering (IPO) price range was previously set at Dh1.80 to Dh1.85 per share.
The donation In addition to local and foreign institutional investors, the IPO attracted “tremendous demand” from UAE retail investors.
The offering received over Dh150 billion ($41 billion) in demand overall, indicating a 130-fold oversubscription level overall. The company stated that this represents the “highest oversubscription level achieved by an IPO on the DFM [Dubai Financial Market]”.
The offering for qualified investors was nearly 135 times oversubscribed.
Mansoor Alfalasi, CEO of Dubai Taxi Company, stated, “The exceptionally strong demand for the IPO, which was 130 times oversubscribed, reflects the high-quality investment opportunity provided by DTC, anchored in Dubai’s robust economic, population, and tourism growth and world-leading mobility and sustainability vision.”
After deducting any offering-related costs, the Department of Finance, acting on behalf of the Dubai government, will receive a total of about Dh1.2 billion in gross proceeds from the IPO, DTC continued.
The Department of Finance will retain ownership of 75.01 percent of DTC’s share capital after the IPO is completed.
Subject to approvals, the offering and listing are anticipated to be completed on December 7.
In order to bring the size of its financial market to Dh3 trillion ($816.8 billion), Dubai announced plans in November 2021 to list ten state-owned companies. In addition, the city planned to establish a Dh2 billion marketmaker fund to encourage the listing of more private companies from industries like energy, logistics, and retail.
Last year, four of the ten state-owned businesses that were announced were listed on the Dubai Financial Market.
The approximately 7,000 cars in the fleet of the 1995-founded Dubai Taxi Company serve the city-state’s expanding population. With a market share of roughly 44%, it is the largest taxi operator in the emirate.
In the first half of this year, approximately 96 million trips were taken on Dubai’s fleet of taxis, of which more than 70% were hybrids.
The IPO’s joint lead managers, Emirates NBD Capital, First Abu Dhabi Bank, and EFG Hermes UAE, have been named.
The Emirates NBD is the primary receiving bank.