Snapchat values itself at as much as $22.2 billion
Snap Inc, the owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat, has set a valuation range for itself of $19.5 billion to $22.2 billion in its initial public offering, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.
The valuation range, which represents $14 to $16 per share, is close to the lower end of the expected range of $20 billion to $25 billion, the Journal reported.
But even at the low end, Snap would be the largest US tech initial public offering since Alibaba in 2014.
A Snap Inc spokesman declined to comment.
Snap Inc filed its IPO registration statement in early February and was expected to record the biggest valuation in a US technology IPO since Facebook’s 2014 launch when it was valued at $104 billion.
The company had confidentially registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission late last year for an IPO.