It has been a tough year for private equity companies looking to sell their investments to the public markets. In the first six months of the year there were only 14 exits, worth $5.2bn, via initial public offerings, according to Preqin data. Four years ago, the total was $37bn. Can the listing of a maker of washing machines restore the spin?
One problem is that companies unloaded by private equity on to public markets have performed patchily. Consumer-data firm NIQ Global Intelligence, educational content provider McGraw Hill and childcare centre operator KinderCare Learning are all trading well below their IPO prices. Buyout firms could use some more successful issues to show that not everything they proffer has already been wrung dry.
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