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According to an updated filing with the SEC, Anthropic plans to sell 825 million shares for $70 to $78 each. That implies a valuation of around $1.3 trillion to $1.45 trillion, and at the top of the range, the offering would raise up to $64.35 billion for the company.
The shares will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker $ANT.
Alongside the IPO, Anthropic will raise another $26 billion from strategic partners, including $NVDA, $MSFT, $GOOG, $TSM, $AVGO, $AMD and $MU. These companies are buying Class N shares without voting rights at the IPO price and are not subject to the standard six-month lock-up. The same goes for $SPCX, so I'll quickly explain what that means here. If you know what it means, you can keep reading after the parentheses:
(A lock-up is a period after an IPO during which existing shareholders are not allowed to sell their shares. It mainly applies to founders, employees and investors who already held shares before the company went public. It usually lasts 180 days, or about six months.
The idea is to prevent a large supply of shares from insiders flooding the market as soon as trading begins, which would push the price down. Investors therefore often watch for the day the lock-up expires. Some insiders may then start selling, and shares often weaken around that date.)
In the first 9 months of the year, Anthropic reported revenue of $33.2 billion. At the same time, it has spending commitments of $895.4 billion, mainly for computing capacity and infrastructure. So the question of where the company will get the money is still an important one.
This is reflected to some extent, because if you remember the end of summer, there was speculation about a valuation of up to $2 trillion. In the end, the valuation is lower.
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