日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

IPOs: Who vouches for the sponsors?

Updated: 2011-12-14 13:47

By Gao Changxin (China Daily)

  Comments() Print Mail Large Medium  Small 分享按鈕 0

IPOs: Who vouches for the sponsors?

Companies enter China's stock exchanges with help from IPO sponsors, but then are on their own. Stocks fell on Tuesday to their lowest level since March 2009 after housing sales slumped. [Photo / China Daily]


IPO sponsors face credibility crisis after series of scandals, Gao Changxin reports in Shanghai.

For sponsors of initial public offerings (IPO), nothing is more important than due diligence. But in China, their diligence seems due.

China's 21-year-old stock market has not been short of scandals. But, following a number of high-profile incidents involving listed companies this year, more investors are questioning the credibility of information disclosure by listed firms and the diligence of their sponsors.

Investors were shocked last month when Haitong Securities Co Ltd used the wrong company's name in its IPO recommendation letter. Zhejiang Daoming Optics & Chemical Co Ltd was applying to launch its IPO. However, a different company, which makes playing cards, was named in the sponsor's recommendation.

Earlier in November, Gu Yucun, chairman of Nanning Baling Technology Co Ltd, was reported to be under criminal investigation for embezzlement. The company had just issued shares publicly and was waiting to be listed.

China's securities law forbids a company to issue shares publicly if senior managers or major shareholders are under police investigation. Ji Yaping, Nanning Baling's sponsor representative with Minsheng Securities Co Ltd, told local media that he was "not aware of the situation".

Vouching for accuracy

The China Securities Regulatory Commission introduced the IPO sponsor system in 2004. Under the system, Chinese companies seeking an IPO on the Shanghai or Shenzhen exchange are required to obtain the endorsement of a qualified sponsor.

The sponsors are to complete a due-diligence checklist and sign a declaration that they are aware of the legal consequences before they recommend an IPO candidate to the commission for approval.

The sponsors are required to make sure financial data and other information provided in the IPO prospectus are truthful. They also continue to oversee disclosure information, to be sure it is valid, for one or two years (depending on the trading board) after the company floats its shares. It is a common practice for an underwriter to also act as the sponsor of an IPO.

"The system was aimed at improving the quality of public companies and better protecting investors' interest," said an employee with the investment banking department of a major securities company in China. The person refused to be named.

"Seven years later, the quality of listed companies has improved a lot."

Trading reversals

But has it? The recent development of the country's Growth Enterprise Board sheds some light on how the sponsor system has functioned.

The Nasdaq-style board, designed for growth companies with smaller capitalization, was launched at the end of 2009. By the end of October this year, its listings had ballooned from 28 to 247.

But now, about 70 percent of the stocks are trading below their issuing value, despite the high price/earnings ratios when they floated shares. In the third quarter this year, 78 companies reported a loss and earnings declined at a third of companies. In all of last year, earnings declined at 25 companies the same year they went public.

Xuzhou Combustion Control Tech Co Ltd went to the extreme. Last Dec 29, it floated shares at a price/earnings ratio of 80 after its earnings had grown more than 70 percent annually over three years. But its 2010 annual report, published several months later, reported that company earnings declined by 0.43 percent.

Liu Guanwu, an IPO analyst with Analysys International, a Beijing-based consultancy, said that instead of supervising IPO candidates, the sponsors acted to beef up the candidates' earnings.

"Many of the companies on the board just don't have big growth potential, though they are supposed to. The reason they enjoyed high price/earnings ratios is that the investment banks 'packaged' them into high-growth companies and made investors believe it," Liu said.

"The investment banks' interests are tied up with that of the IPO candidates. The more money the companies raise, the higher the banks' commissions."

   Previous Page 1 2 Next Page  

主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲成人自拍 | 成人毛片100免费观看 | 成年人在线免费观看视频网站 | 中文字幕免费高清 | 日韩二区三区 | 午夜视频免费 | 99精品在线 | 亚洲影视一区 | 日本黄色激情视频 | 精品视频专区 | 人人插人人干 | 亚洲福利在线观看 | 污视频网站免费看 | 在线观看中文字幕码 | av网站有哪些 | 日本黄页在线观看 | 精品国产网站 | 免费在线看黄的网站 | 国内久久 | 中文字幕第35页 | 欧美高清性 | av网站亚洲 | 狠狠干网站| 欧美日韩免费看 | 国产在线天堂 | 日日cao| 精品久久一区二区 | 日本在线观看网址 | 午夜家庭影院 | 91亚洲国产成人精品一区二区三 | 国产欧美日韩一区二区三区 | 日韩福利视频在线观看 | 在线成人小视频 | 福利资源在线观看 | 国产精品日韩欧美大师 | 久久精品视频观看 | 九九热这里有精品 | 亚洲三级a| 成人在线播放视频 | 波多野结衣一区在线 | 毛片在线观看网站 |