The Song Hong Corporation under the Ministry of Construction will make an initial public offering (IPO) of 30 million shares via the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) on November 5.

Experts say with an initial price of 14,000 VND, shares of the Song Hong Corporation – a construction giant of a great number of realty, industrial and energy projects – are expected to stir up the gloomy IPO market.

Although the HNX-Index and the HOSE-Index are on the increase with the traded value of each session reaching trillions of VND, only 20 businesses have made their IPOs through the HNX and the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) so far this year.

Of the figure, HOSE organised six IPOs, a sharp drop from 16 last year. The number of IPOs organised by the HNX was also equivalent to one-third of last year’s total.

Securities experts said that without the participation of big businesses with strong trademarks, IPOs fail to attract investors, leading to unsuccessful IPOs or low IPO share prices.

In addition, sluggish transactions on unlisted markets prevent investors from pouring their investment into IPO to focus on the listed market./.