LegalZoom.com Inc.
LZ,
said Wednesday its initial public offering priced at $28 a share, above its proposed price range of $24 to $27 each. The California-based online legal and compliances services company made its latest shot at going public with a valuation of up to $5.2 billion. The company had previously filed to go public in 2012, with terms implying a valuation of up to about $484 million, but filed in January 2014 to withdraw the filing. The company sold 19.1 million shares to raise $534.8 million. The stock will start trading later Wednesday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "LZ." There were 14 underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Barclays. The company expects to have 194.11 million shares outstanding after the IPO. LegalZoom recorded net income of $9.9 million on revenue of $470.6 million in 2020, after net income of $7.4 million on revenue of $408.4 million in 2019. The company is going public at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF
IPO,
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has ticked up 3.8% in the year to date, while the S&P 500
SPX,
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has gained 14%.