Apple supplier Luxshare set to price Hong Kong’s biggest IPO of 2026 at the top
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Luxshare raising roughly $3.1 billion at the top of its HK$63.28 range shows public markets still pay up for scaled electronics and device supply-chain exposure. Hardware and component operators can read this as modest validation that capital is available for scale and vertical integration stories, even as software multiples compress.
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