Squarespace Ends Down in First Day of Trading
The web-hosting service Squarespace (SQSP) - Get Report, which went public as a direct listing with a $50 reference price, tumbled on its first day.
Squarespace finished down 12.7% to $43.65 on Wednesday.
Recent pricing gives Squarespace a market capitalization of $6.8 billion. At Squarespace’s March funding round, it had an enterprise value of $10 billion, which includes options and other holdings, Bloomberg reported.
The New York company’s backers include General Atlantic, Index Ventures and Accel. Its top competitors include Wix.com (WIX) - Get Report and GoDaddy (GDDY) - Get Report.
Squarespace said in its prospectus that its revenue totaled $621.1 million in 2020, up 28% from $484.8 million in 2019. Subscription-based revenue soared 94%.
Net income dropped to $30.6 million from $58.2 million. As of Dec. 31, Squarespace had 3.66 million unique subscribers.
Other technology companies executing direct listings recently include cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global (COIN) and online videogame platform Roblox (RBLX) - Get Report.
Coinbase shares tumbled Wednesday after it priced $1.25 billion of convertible senior notes, which will pay interest of 0.5%. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell on Wednesday.
The stock of Coinbase recently traded at $223.89, down 6.3%.
Roblox last week reported its first financial results since it went public, posting better-than-expected bookings on a surge in daily users.
The company said bookings in the first quarter hit $652.3 million, better than the $573 million forecast compiled by FactSet.
Average daily active users during the quarter were 42.1 million, an increase of 79% year-over-year.
Roblox stock ended at $75.22, up 0.3%.
