ADT Inc.’s stock opened at $12.65 on the NYSE at 10:21 a.m. ET, or 9.6% below the initial public offering price of $14. Since the open, the stock has traded in a range of $12.55 to $12.97. The home security services company’s IPO had priced late Thursday well below the expected range of $17 to $19. The company sold 105 million shares in the IPO, before options granted to underwriters, to raise $1.47 billion, and to give the company a $10.5 billion valuation. ADT’s IPO comes at a time when the Renaissance IPO ETF has gained 5.5% over the past three months and the S&P 500 has rallied 9.4%.
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