Prior to yesterday's trading, Citigroup Saudi Arabia and Goldman Sachs Saudi Arabia announced the completion of the accelerated order book building process for the sale of about 115.9 million shares of SABB shares, which will be acquired by Citigroup Global Markets Limited and Goldman Sachs International. From Natwest Plc and Banco Santander SE to sell “at the same price per share” to final investors on December 1, 2020.
According to the statement published on the Tadawul website, these shares represent 5.6 percent of the company's capital, of which 36.99 million shares have been allocated to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Holding Company BV, which will result in an increase in its ownership in SABB from 29.2 To 31.0 percent, and 42.37 million shares of the Olayan Saudi Investment Company Ltd., which will result in an increase in its ownership in SABB from 18.3 to 20.3 percent.
The deal price will be fixed for each share at 22.10 riyals per share, with total proceeds of 2.56 billion riyals.
The Biggest Deals
In June of this year, the Saudi stock market witnessed the implementation of the largest deal in the history of the market. The share of the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) amounted to 259.1 billion riyals on 2.1 billion shares, equal to 70 percent of the company's shares.
The deal resulted from the purchase of Saudi Aramco, the stake that the Public Investment Fund held in SABIC, which constituted 70 percent of the company's shares.
While it was the second largest deal in the history of the market on the shares of Banque Saudi Fransi, and it was executed in September 2017 with a value of 5.76 billion riyals. The deal was represented in the sale of Credit Agricole Bank about 195.3 million shares for the benefit of the Kingdom Holding Company, which it owned in the Banque Saudi Fransi, It represented 16.2% of the bank's capital at the time.
While yesterday's deal, which was executed on SABB Bank, is the third largest deal. The fourth largest deal goes to "Al-Rajhi Bank" in January 2014 with a value of about 3.09 billion riyals, and then the fifth deal that was executed on shares of Riyad Bank in May 2015 with a value of 2.59 billion riyals.
Private deals are the orders that are executed when a seller investor and a buying investor agree to trade specific securities at a specified price, in a manner that conforms to the controls of the Saudi Stock Exchange "Tadawul" and the rules and regulations issued by the relevant Capital Market Authority.
Private deals do not affect the price of the last deal, the highest or lowest share price, the opening price, the closing price, the market index or sector indices.
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