WeWork disclosed its plans for an initial public offering, revealing a net loss of $690 million in the first six months of this year as it moves toward a fall listing that will test investors’ appetite for money-losing startups.
The office-rental company listed an offering size of $1 billion, which is typically a placeholder that will be revised when terms of the share sale are set later. WeWork had been targeting a share sale of about $3.5 billion in September, people familiar with the matter have said. That would make it the second-biggest IPO of the year, topped only by Uber Technologies Inc.’s $8.1-billion listing in May.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will be the lead underwriters on the offering. Executives from major banks had been courting the company for years. WeWork’s annual revenue more than doubled to $1.8 billion in 2018 compared to $886 million in the previous year. The full-year net loss attributable to the company widened more than 80% to $1.6 billion, from a loss of $883.9 million in 2017. It lost about $430 million in 2016.
The company said it could one day be profitable if it “stopped investing in our growth and instead allowed our existing pipeline of locations to mature.” WeWork said only 30% of its open locations are mature and that 70% of its locations had been open for two years or less. It also has a revenue backlog of $4 billion, eight times its backlog last year, it added.
WeWork — which changed its name to the We Co. in a diversification move earlier this year — has in recent weeks been looking to raise a significant amount of debt. It was seeking to borrow $2 billion through a letter-of-credit facility and $4 billion from a delayed-draw term loan, Bloomberg previously reported. Banks will have to make good on their commitments only if at least $3 billion is raised in the IPO.
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