TELEGRAM WILL GO THROUGH AN IPO IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS

It became known about the intention of the management of the Telegram messenger to release the company's shares to the public through an IPO. This could happen within the next two years. The number of potentially issued securities will tentatively be from 10 to 25% of their total number.

According to Vedomosti, the company expects an estimate of $ 30-50 billion and has already begun preparations for an IPO. At the same time, the probable timing of its holding may depend on the dynamics that the exchange markets will show.

At the moment, pre-IPO diagnostics are already being carried out in order to determine the specific region and share markets, where the placement will take place in the future.

It is possible that the placement of shares will happen on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, since about 40% of Telegram users are in Asia.

So far, methods of evaluating the messenger trigger questions. There is reason to believe that Telegram will follow the WhatsApp path. The 2014 Facebook deal was valued at $ 19 billion, which, in terms of the number of users, shows a price of over $ 42 for each of them. At the beginning of this year, Telegram announced 500 million monthly users, which in turn could show a significantly higher cost of the messenger.

Telegram was created by Pavel Durov in 2013. The service allows users to exchange not only instant text, video and voice messages, but also files of various formats. Three years ago, the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications attempted to block the messenger, but the agency failed to achieve the desired result.