Perfect World’s depositary receipts of america jumped to $19.25. After the Chinese online games operator's founder proposed to privatize the company, this is 22% increase in New York which is the the most since March 2012 after its founder and chairman Michael Yufeng Chi offered acquisition for $20 per ADR.
Since a high in March as there was narrow profit margin, Perfect World had lowered 39 percent. It's valuation surged to 6.8 times forward earnings last month which is the lowest since April 2013. Michael Yufeng Chi proposed to buy out shareholders at a 27 percent premium over the stock’s Dec. 31 closing price and according to the filing, he currently has17 percent of the company as of March.
Currently the company’s U.S. valuation is too low and it's stocks should be re-listed in it's domestic market. There could be more game operators who may seek privatization if they deem themselves undervalued.
Perfect World stands the third U.S.-listed Chinese online gaming company that proposed to go private in the past year. Perfect World announced on Friday that it appointed Yunfan Zhang as its chief operating officer who previously was incharge of the company’s mobile game publishing business.
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