Spotify’s Splashy Debut Pressures Banks

Shares of the music-streaming service start with a flourish then steadily wear down, but they still finished above their trading price in the private markets

Spotify Technology SA roared onto the public market Tuesday, cutting a new path to public ownership that could alter the way companies think about the listing process and pose a new threat to a core business on Wall Street.

Shares of the music-streaming giant closed their first day of trading at $149.01, giving the company a market value of $26.54 billion. That ranks Spotify as the eighth-biggest technology initial public offering after the first day of trading, just behind Google in 2004, according to Dealogic.

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