Reddit revenue rises 20% ahead of IPO, but it isn’t profitable yet
REDDIT posted a more than 20 per cent rise in revenue in 2023 versus the year before, sources familiar with the situation said, as it prepares for one of the United States’ most anticipated potential initial public offerings (IPOs).
The San Francisco-based social media company is telling potential investors it had more than US$800 million in revenue last year, above the US$666 million it saw in 2022, the sources said, asking not to be identified as the information is private.
Reddit has yet to achieve profitability for the full year, with adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation showing a loss of about US$69 million, one of the sources said. It achieved a profit in the fourth quarter, a different source said. The company has been advised to consider a valuation of at least US$5 billion in an IPO, Bloomberg News has reported.
The company is moving ahead with its plans to go public more than two years after it first confidentially filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Reddit’s listing is closely watched as a bellwether of an IPO market in the midst of a tentative rebound from a two-year dearth of first-time share sales.
Reddit and its advisers are expected to unveil their public IPO filing as soon as this month, the sources said. That would keep it on track to begin marketing its New York Stock Exchange IPO as early as March.
About 16 banks, led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group, are working on the IPO, the sources said. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America and Citigroup are also among the banks on the deal, they added.
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Representatives for Reddit, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citigroup declined to comment, while a spokesperson for Morgan Stanley did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The timing means Reddit could be among the first to lead a pack of sizable technology IPOs this quarter, which may include Microsoft-backed data security start up Rubrik and health-care payments company Waystar Technologies. Both firms had considered IPOs last year and are now targeting as soon as this year, Bloomberg News has reported.
Reddit, founded in 2005, had more than 70 million daily active unique visitors as at October. It became an icon of the so-called meme-stock era after a forum on the site, WallStreetBets, jolted the stock market. BLOOMBERG
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