SK Hynix's debut on the US stock market rose by about 17%, setting a record for overseas companies raising funds through IPOs in the US

According to Caixin, global HBM storage leader SK Hynix officially landed on Nasdaq in the form of American Depositary Shares (ADS), with the stock price rising about 17% at one point after the opening on the first day, reaching a total market value of $1.28 trillion.

The report states that this issuance raised as much as $26.5 billion, setting a record for the largest fundraising scale for overseas companies listing in the U.S., surpassing Alibaba's $21.8 billion issuance in 2014, and only second to SpaceX's $75 billion financing, ranking as the second largest stock issuance in U.S. history. On Thursday Eastern Time, SK Hynix set the final issuance price at $149, a slight premium of 3.1% compared to the previous day's closing price on the Korean stock market.

Caixin pointed out that the shares offered this time accounted for less than 3% of the company's total market value, with a relatively limited float, but the institutional subscription multiple exceeded 7 times, indicating strong demand from overseas funds for AI storage. As a core player holding 56.4% of the global HBM market share and deeply tied to Nvidia's supply chain, SK Hynix's listing in the U.S. also fills the gap of AI storage leaders in the U.S. stock market.