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World's biggest stock IPOs to date

Chinese giant Alibaba holds the record with a $25 billion IPO in New York in 2014

Published: November 17, 2019 17:37 AFP

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191117 saudi aramco 2 — Saudi Aramco announced Sunday it would sell 1.5 percent of the company in a blockbuster IPO worth up to $25.6 billion - which could be the world's largest stock offering. Image Credit: Reuters

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191117 saudi arabia 2 — Saudi Arabia put a value of up to $1.71 trillion on the energy giant, which began taking bids from investors based on a price of $8.00-8.50 per share. Image Credit: Reuters

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191117 alibaba — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba holds the record with a $25 billion IPO in New York in 2014. Alibaba is also aiming to raise another $20 billion if it goes ahead with plans to list on the Hong Kong stock market. Here is a list of some of the other biggest IPOs to date: Image Credit: Facebook

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191117 softbank — Multinational conglomerate SoftBank raised $23.5 billion via the IPO of its mobile unit in 2018, in Japan's largest stock offering. Image Credit: Reuters

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191117 icbc — ICBC ($21.9 billion). Industrial and Commercial Bank of China went public in 2006, also trading on the Hong Kong and Shanghai markets. Image Credit: Facebook

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191117 aia group — AIA Group ($20.5 billion). A unit of US insurance giant AIG was spun off in 2010 on the Hong Kong exchange. Image Credit: Supplied

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191117 visa inc — Visa Inc. ($19.6 billion). The US card payment giant went public in New York in 2008. Image Credit: Facebook

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191117 ntt docomo — NTT DoCoMo ($18.4 billion). The Japanese mobile operator, spun off from NTT, made its market debut in Tokyo in 1998. Image Credit: Facebook

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191117 gm — General Motors ($18.1 billion). The US auto giant returned to the stock market in New York and Toronto in 2010, a year and a half after a government-led rescue. Image Credit: Facebook

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191117 enel — Enel ($17.4 billion). The Italian energy group began trading in 1999 in Milan and New York. Image Credit: Facebook

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140 million businesses using Facebook, its apps every month — Facebook ($16 billion). The world's leading social network was the largest tech sector IPO in 2012 in New York. Image Credit: IANS

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191117 deutsce telekom — Deutsche Telekom ($13 billion). The German telecom giant hit the market in 1996, trading in Frankfurt, New York and Tokyo. Image Credit: Facebook

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