Eric Baker, co-founder and CEO of Ticket reseller StubHub, rings the opening bell throughout his firm’s IPO on the New York Inventory Trade in New York Metropolis, U.S., September 17, 2025.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
StubHub shares opened at $25.35 of their New York Inventory Trade debut on Wednesday after the web ticket vendor priced its IPO in the midst of its anticipated vary.
The pricing late Tuesday at $23.50 per share raised $800 million for the corporate, now buying and selling underneath ticker image “STUB.”
StubHub’s long-awaited IPO comes after the corporate paused its plans in April, when President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs despatched the inventory market right into a tailspin. It was the second such delay, after market volatility compelled StubHub to quickly shelve its IPO plans in July 2024.
The IPO is the newest in a flurry of tech choices because the market rebounds from a dismal few years. Swedish purchase now, pay later agency Klarna and Gemini, the crypto agency based by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, rose of their respective debuts final week. Peter Thiel-backed cryptocurrency trade Bullish, design software program firm Figma and stablecoin issuer Circle have additionally hit the market in latest months.
StubHub has been by means of quite a lot of transactions in its 25-year historical past to get so far. It was bought by eBay for $310 million in 2007, however was reacquired by its co-founder Eric Baker in 2020 for roughly $4 billion by means of his new firm Viagogo.
StubHub has benefited from a resurgence within the dwell occasions market within the years following the Covid lockdowns. Gross sales have additionally boomed from massively well-liked reveals like Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour, in addition to sporting occasions just like the Tremendous Bowl.
The corporate stated in its up to date prospectus filed final month that these kinds of occasions may make StubHub’s revenues lumpy and troublesome to foretell.
Within the first quarter, StubHub reported income progress of 10% from a 12 months earlier to $397.6 million. Its internet loss widened to $35.9 million from $29.7 million a 12 months in the past. Gross merchandise gross sales, which characterize the whole greenback worth paid by ticket consumers, reached $2.08 billion within the three months ended March 31.
StubHub primarily generates income from connecting consumers with ticket resellers. Greater than 40 million tickets had been bought on StubHub’s market final 12 months from roughly a million sellers, the corporate stated in August.
It competes with Vivid Seats, which was taken public through a particular function acquisition firm in 2021, SeatGeek and Ticketmaster guardian Dwell Nation Leisure.
The Federal Commerce Fee is within the superior levels of probing Ticketmaster over whether or not it is finished sufficient to maintain automated bots from circumventing its per-person ticket limits for well-liked occasions, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing individuals aware of the matter.
The FTC in Might despatched a warning letter to StubHub saying it should adjust to the company’s “junk charges” rule and alleging a few of its ticket listings did not show the whole worth, together with all necessary charges and expenses.
Madrone Companions is StubHub’s largest investor with possession of 24.5% of Class A shares previous to the providing. WestCap is second at 12.3%, adopted by Bessemer Enterprise Companions at 8.8%.
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