SYDNEY, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Shares of Midea Group climbed 7% at the open in their Hong Kong trading debut on Tuesday after the Chinese home appliances maker raised nearly $4 billion in its listing.
Midea , also listed in Shenzhen, priced its shares at HK$54.80 each in its Hong Kong float, which is the largest in the city in four years.
Midea sold 565.9 million shares in the deal which bankers are hoping could revive Hong Kong's faltering capital markets where share sales have dived to the lowest point in more than a decade.
The final price set was about a 20% discount to Midea's Shenzhen listed share price. Mainland Chinese shares typically trade at a premium compared to Hong Kong listed stocks.
Midea increased the number of shares on sale at the end of the transaction after receiving strong demand from investors during the bookbuilding process.
The institutional tranche was oversubscribed by 8 times and the Hong Kong retail offering portion was 5.31 times covered, according to Midea's regulatory filings.
The oversubscription rates, while higher than recent Hong Kong deals, remain well below the city's capital markets' boom in 2021 when transactions were hundreds of times covered.
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China and high interest rates globally have dampened foreign investors appetite to buy into greater China equity capital markets deals, according to bankers and advisers.
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