{"id":111159,"date":"2025-08-26T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111159\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:44:10","slug":"klarna-to-seek-valuation-of-up-to-14-billion-in-ipo-next-month-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111159\/","title":{"rendered":"Klarna to seek valuation of up to $14 billion in IPO next month, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish fintech Klarna (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/KLAR.PVT\" data-ylk=\"slk:KLAR.PVT;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KLAR.PVT<\/a>) will restart its plan to go public in the United States next month with a valuation of between $13 billion and $14 billion, according to two sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The company paused its IPO plans in April after U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s sweeping tariffs rattled global markets. It had also looked at going public in 2021 but decided not to proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The shares sold in the offering could be priced at between $34 and $36 as early as this week, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">That would be a sharp drop from the valuation of close to $50 billion Klarna was aiming for in 2021 and down from more than $15 billion earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">One of the sources said Klarna is looking to raise close to $1 billion from the IPO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Klarna declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This summer&#8217;s improvement in equity markets and robust debuts from new issuers have fuelled renewed enthusiasm for U.S. initial public offerings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Design software maker Figma and stablecoin giant Circle are among those to have recently listed, with shares peaking 333% and 864%, respectively, above their IPO prices in the days following their debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The 20 biggest U.S. IPOs this year averaged a first-day share price rise of 36%, a Reuters calculation using data compiled by LSEG showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Klarna, which reshaped online shopping with its short-term financing model, said earlier this month that its second-quarter revenue rose 20% from a year earlier on a like-for-like basis to $823 million, while adjusted operating profit was up $1 million to $29 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Active customers rose 31% year-on-year to 111 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm, additional reporting by Charlie Conchie; Editing by Anousha Sakoui, Kirsten Donovan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish fintech Klarna (KLAR.PVT) will restart its plan to go public in the United States next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,72806,942,46210],"class_list":["post-111159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-klarna","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}