IPO News | Himalaya plans to IPO on Hong Kong stocks, China Securities Regulatory Commission requires clarification on the compliance of the structure
On May 10, the China Securities Regulatory Commission announced the requirements for supplementary materials for overseas issuance and listing registration (April 26, 2024 to May 9, 2024). Among them, the announcement mentioned requiring the Himalayas to further explain the legal compliance of the company's equity structure establishment, etc.
Himalaya's four IPOs: cross-border layout of loan aid and diversion business
Recently, Himalaya submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and CICC as co-sponsors to begin their fourth IPO journey. According to the prospectus, from 2021 to 2023, the Himalayas achieved revenue of 5.857 billion yuan, 6.61 billion yuan, and 6.163 billion yuan respectively; net profit for the year was -5106 billion yuan, 3.7 billion yuan, and 37.36 billion yuan respectively.
Himalaya updates prospectus: profit exceeds 200 million yuan in 2023, with Tencent and Xiaomi as shareholders
On April 12, Rui Finance Wang Min, according to the official website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Himalayas submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and CICC as co-sponsors. According to the prospectus, the history of the Himalayas began in 2012. In August 2012, the Shanghai Himalaya was established to operate and promote a new lifestyle, and by building a platform for content creators and users to connect and interact with each other. According to the prospectus, the Himalayas received a total of 12 rounds of financing. Since its establishment in August 2012, the Himalayas have gone through two restructurings. The first one to obtain was overseas financing, Company Day
With a valuation of nearly 30 billion dollars, the Himalayas have broken into the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
① Significant improvement in earnings in the Himalayas. In 2021-2023, adjusted net profit was -718 million yuan, -296 million yuan and 224 million yuan respectively; ② Himalaya experienced a total of 10 rounds of financing. Xiaomi, Reading Group, and Tencent were all investors, and the valuation rose to US$4.3 billion.
Himalaya submits prospectus: 2023 revenue of 6.16 billion yuan, net profit of 224 million
According to the official website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Himalayas have submitted a prospectus. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and CICC are co-sponsors. According to the prospectus, Himalayas revenue in 2023 was 6.16 billion yuan, adjusted net profit for the whole year reached 224 million yuan, and gross margin increased from 51.9% in 2022 to 56.3% in 2023. Meanwhile, in 2023, the average monthly active users in all Himalayas reached 303 million, and the average monthly active mobile users reached 133 million, an increase of 9.3% over the previous year. As of December 2023, the Himalayas have been profitable for 5 consecutive quarters, and their sustainable profitability is stable
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2022 Hong Kong stock IPO market mid-year inventory: listing forms are diversified, multi-industry leaders line up for IPOs in Hong Kong
In the first half of 2022, a total of 25 companies went public in the Hong Kong IPO market, raising a total of about 19 billion yuan. The biotechnology and medical related industries were the most popular industries in the IPO market, and e-commerce and internet services and property management services tied for the second most popular industry.
Weekly IPO | Mingchuang Premium went public in Hong Kong and the Himalayas updated its prospectus
This week, the Hong Kong stock IPO market ushered in a wave of submissions. 12 companies, including Himalaya, Wanwuyun, and Superstar Group, applied for listing on the main board; Ligao Health Life rose 26.34% on the first day of listing, up 98.54% this week.
With the rise of online audio, why am I more optimistic about the long-term value of the Himalayas?
Author: Belsey The shape of the information society is undergoing interesting changes. As of 2021, out of 1 billion internet users in the Chinese market, more than 80% of internet users will open audio entertainment software once a day on average, and the average monthly usage time exceeds 3 hours. As for the online audio market, the number of active monthly users has now stabilized at 268 million, showing a steady upward trend overall. The characteristics of modern life can explain this phenomenon. Fast-paced life and fragmented time enable online audio to further expand consumer content scenarios, such as commuting, sleep assistance, and parent-child companionship
Himalaya updated its prospectus, with the number of monthly active users on mobile increasing by 17% year-on-year.
On March 29, Beijing time, Himalaya updated its prospectus on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and CICC are the joint sponsors, while Tencent, Yuewen, baidu, Xiaomi, tal education, and Sony Music are strategic investors. Major financial investors include the usa-based General Atlantic investment group, VCG, Goldman Sachs, Xingwang Investment, Genesis Partners Capital, among others. Recently, exactly six months after submitting its Hong Kong IPO prospectus on September 13, 2021, Himalaya's prospectus has become invalid. This invalidation is due to the expiration of audited figures as stipulated by listing rules. This update is made in accordance with the requirements to update data and information per the listing rules of the stock exchange.
Himalaya and Houlang Publishing reach a strategic partnership
36 Krypton learned that Himalaya recently reached a strategic cooperation with Houlang Publishing Company. In the future, the two sides will further cooperate on high-quality copyrighted content, audio works, and derivatives. According to reports, up to now, the Himalayas have reached long-term cooperation with more than 140 publishing houses and more than 90 online writing platforms.
Himalaya launches independent live streaming app
The Himalayas recently launched the “Himalaya Live” app. Overall, this is a product with live streaming as the main function, complemented by social attributes. As early as 2017, the Himalayas launched live audio broadcasts and chose pan-entertainment as the direction. In 2019, Himalaya Live rose to a strategic level business and began concentrating resources to break through. In 2020, the total revenue share of Himalayan advertising and live streaming was 44.2%, exceeding the revenue share of paid subscriptions.
An evening with a national trend singer: Why did the Himalayas become a “spiritual home” for young people?
The fusion of audio and national trends, how is the “sound” of culture expressed? Reading Entertainment | yiqiduyu | In fact, “What kind of effect can a violin and erhu play traditional Chinese repertoire?” At the “Himalayan Night · 2021 Phantom Journey” gala held on December 3, Liu Xianhua and erhu actor Chen Jun performed a stunning ensemble. The delightful violin was beautifully fused with the sound of a thousand turns of erhu. The fusion of Chinese and Western instruments made the traditional Chinese classic song “Liang Zhu” perform brilliantly and full of creativity. The audience listened intently and heartily. Many Weibo netizens called out for this ensemble.”
Himalayan Nights: A Sound Parallel World, a Spiritual Food Feast
On December 3, the 6th Himalayan 123 Carnival officially kicked off. Unlike previous editions, this year's 123 Carnival not only launched bargain content products online, but the Himalayas also created a different drama-style gala “Himalayan Night · 2021 Phantom Journey”. At 19:30 on December 3, “Himalaya Nights · 2021 Phantom Nights” (hereinafter referred to as “Himalaya Night”), with Jingdong Supermarket as Chief Sound and Industrial Bank as Charity and Good Goods Officer, was broadcast simultaneously in selected cinemas in the Himalayas, Migoo, Douyu, and Beishang Guangshen. Viewers can also go through Geely and BYD
Himalayan Double 11 takes an unusual path to push young people to pay for spiritual consumption
iPhone 13, Wuliangye, and Aquamarine Mysterious Repair Essence ranked in the top three in physical product sales. Sales of the Himalayan value-added membership package were very popular, and users achieved a double harvest in the Himalayas. This year's Himalaya Double 11 was launched on November 2. It took two weeks to launch value-priced memberships and a large number of physical products under the theme of “A Beautiful Life, Internal and External Maintenance”. It also collaborated with the site's anchors to explore new models such as live delivery and online store opening.
Reconstructing the ear economy, the Himalayas tell a new story for "Singles Day"
"time obliterates space, our patience is only 3 seconds, alienation and retreat deepen among us. This is the anthropologist Xiang Biao's understanding of the "disappearance of the neighborhood", which he uses to describe the current social picture. When the "nearby" is eliminated and people rely more and more on convenient technology to devote themselves to their own small world, the real world gradually becomes nothingness and far away. This anthropological perspective can also be understood as the alienation of technology to people's spiritual life. But what Xiang Biao ignores is that the virtual world constructed by media technology is not meaningless. With the rise of "ear economy", online audio content platform relies on auditory production system.
As the ascent of the Himalayas takes place: becoming a spiritual home for everyone
Source of this article: Times Finance Author: Xu Xiaoqian, as the new consumer circuit becomes more and more popular, spiritual consumption is constantly being upgraded. Third-party platform data shows that Gen Z's spiritual consumption demand for hard-core knowledge, workplace experience, financial investment, etc. is bursting across the board. As Internet natives, they are more inclined to use emerging channels to find “reliable answers.” Recently, the first Himalaya Double 11 event was unveiled. With the theme of “Living a Beautiful Life Inside and Out”, the site's anchors explored new models such as live streaming and online store opening, so that users could achieve a double spiritual and material harvest. Just two months ago, the Himalayas officially slog
A new “listen and shop” experiment in the Himalayas
Writer/Zhang Hefei/Editor/Shen Jie The 13th Double Eleven is about to come to an end. Apart from the delivery myth made by Li Jiaqi and Via, it is impressive that different types of anchors continue to pop up. What is different from previous years is that this year's Double Eleven is not just a home for e-commerce giants; audio and video platforms such as Douyin, Kuaishou, and the Himalayas can be said to have brought about a storm during the Double Eleven period. Among them, the Himalayas, which participated in the Double Eleven event for the first time, played a combo of “good things” and “good books”, upgraded a single material consumption to “material+spiritual” consumption, adding a new prelude to the shopping spree.
The sound game of the Himalayas
Wen / Zhang Zeyi source / Yuanchuan Business Review (ID:ycsypl) online audio leader Himalayas, after all, embarked on the road to Hong Kong listing. Himalaya submitted its listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Sept. 13, four days after it announced its application to withdraw its IPO plan to the United States. After twists and turns, Yu Jianjun, who calls himself a "continuous entrepreneur", is finally going to bring the "meaning" of this 30 billion valuation to the market. According to the prospectus, the latest Himalayan MAU (monthly active users) reached 262 million, making it the top spot in the online audio market. Corresponding to it is the camp which is mainly based on subscription fees.