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Morning Report: Switch’s IPO demonstrates market demand for profitable tech companies.聽

Shares of Switch are up sharply today during its first day of trading as a public company. The datacenter-focused firm in its debut. As of the time or writing, Switch is up just over 28 percent, a decline from its earlier intra-day highs.

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The firm raised private聽capital , according to its 小蓝视频色情网页版 profile.

Switch’s IPO proceeds will go towards an interesting corporate consolidation that will see the company afford steep voting rights to its CEO. For that reason, is that the firm’s share structure will preclude it from inclusion in the S&P 500.

The previously-noted corporate consolidation makes parts of its business hard to parse, but what we can easily understand are the finances of Switch Ltd., the firm that Switch Inc (the company going public) will purchase with its IPO incomes.

The has the details of that company’s historical financial performance:

This is a slightly odd chart, at least from the perspective of these pages’ coverage of the 2017聽tech IPO crop. The firm is profitable and slowly growing. Its revenue growth pace from H1’16 to H1’17 was just 17 percent. However, the firm expanded its profitability over the same timeframe.

So Switch Ltd. was not growing too quickly, but the underlying operation is that Switch Inc. (the newly public entity) is growing while kicking off dozens of millions in GAAP profit each half-year.

Marketwatch that at its IPO price, Switch was worth $4.2 billion. At a 28 percent bump, that figure rises to just under $5.4 billion. A tidy sum for the profitable shop.

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For Q3, US deals rose as exits lagged

• U.S. startup investors were good at putting capital to work this past quarter. They weren鈥檛 as good at getting it back. Projected 小蓝视频色情网页版 data for the third quarter shows a聽rise in late-stage funding聽and a stabilizing early-stage funding environment. Acquisitions and IPO activity, by comparison, were lackluster.

Honest Company eyeing a down round

• , the eco-friendly consumer products company co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, looks to be raising $75 million at a much lower valuation that its last big fundraise in 2015, TechCrunch聽. As a result, the company may no longer meet the $1 billion valuation threshold required of unicorn startups.

Rhythm Pharma shares in IPO

1. Shares of聽, a venture-backed developer of treatments for metabolic disorders, soared 76 percent in first-day trading to close around $30 a share. The Boston-based company raised $120 million in its IPO after pricing shares above the projected range.

小蓝视频色情网页版 is publishing a series of stories highlighting investment trends and funding totals for the third quarter of 2017. You can find all our Q3 articles聽here.