Demand could reach R$53.5bn; stock price of Brazil’s main power utility will be defined Thursday in privatization process

By Maria Luíza Filgueiras, Talita Moreira — São Paulo

06/09/2022

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Eletrobras’s power transmission towers — Foto: Custódio Coimbra/Agência O Globo

Brazil’s main power utility Eletrobras prices Thursday its great stock offering and, on the way to privatization, reaches the final stretch of the bookbuilding with plenty of volume to launch the operation. According to sources close to the operation, the company had already secured about R$53.5 billion by early Wednesday afternoon.

The demand via the Workers’ Severance Fund (FGTS) is around R$7.5 billion, but allocations will be limited to R$6 billion – which already signals sharing among investors. Workers could invest up to 50% of their resources in the fund, and applications closed on Wednesday at noon.

As it has already been launched with strong anchoring, the institutional investors that are not in these groups or that exceed the ceiling reserved for each profile will dispute what remains of the bookbuilding. There are about R$26 billion in reserves for a number of shares of around R$6.5 billion – that is, the demand is four times higher than the offer.

When the secondary offering was launched, Eletrobras shares were at R$44. On Wednesday, ELET3 closed at R$42.14 and ELET6 at R$41.63, which adjusts market expectations for a funding of around R$34 billion, with the allocation of the supplementary lot.

The banks BTG Pactual, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Itaú BBA, XP Investimentos, Bradesco BBI, Caixa Econômica Federal, Citi, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Safra are coordinating the operation.

Source: Valor International

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