With a wave of the curling wand: Fenbo Holdings Ltd. (FEBO), the profitable parent of a Chinese electrical hair care products manufacturer, priced its tiny IPO at $5.00, as expected, on Wednesday night (Nov. 29, 2023). Fenbo sold 1.0 million shares to raise $5.0 million – at a market cap of $55.0 million – based on the $5.00 IPO price in the prospectus.
EF Hutton was the sole book-runner.
Fenbo’s stock dipped to $4.99 – down a penny from its IPO price in its opening trade at 10:47 a.m. EST today on NASDAQ. The stock slipped further to trade at $4.40, down 60 cents or 11.82 percent from its $5.00 IPO price, at 11:50 a.m. EST today – Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Fenbo’s stock closed its first day of NASDAQ trading at $4.44, down 56 cents or 11.2 percent from its IPO price.
The Cayman Islands holding company offered the stock in Fenbo’s IPO and not the underlying business.
Fenbo Holdings does business through its operating subsidiaries – two in Hong Kong and one in mainland China. The company was founded in 1993.
Since 2006, the company has served as an OEM (“Original Equipment Manufacturer”) for Spectrum Brands, a global home essentials company, and its sole customer, producing electrical hair styling products under the “Remington” brand. These products are sold in Europe, North America and Latin America, according to the prospectus.
“Our principal products are curling wands and irons; flat irons and hair straighteners, and other small personal care electrical appliances, including trimmers, nail polishers, pet shampoo brushes and eyebrow tweezers, etc.,” the prospectus says.
There’s money to be made in personal hair care products. Fenbo reported net income of $1.04 million on revenue of $14.94 million for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2023, according to financial statements in the prospectus.
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