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Freetrade faces investor backlash over £160m IG Group sale

By Editorial Board Published January 16, 2025 2 Min Read
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Freetrade faces investor backlash over £160m IG Group sale

Freetrade, the British stock-trading app, is dealing with a backlash from early traders after asserting a sale to London-listed IG Group for a fraction of the valuation it focused throughout earlier fundraising talks.

The deal, price as much as 119p-a-share to Freetrade traders, comes simply months after it reported the primary worthwhile half-year in its six-year historical past.

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“It’s more important than ever that we focus on our core market and its enormous growth prospects.”

The takeover was described by one early investor as “a nonsensical deal”.

“I feel completely robbed by Freetrade and will lose 87% of my investment as a result of this nonsensical deal.

“Crowdfunders like me supported them of their progress journey and now they’ve dropped us like a stone once they now not want us.

“If the business was in trouble I’d understand accepting a low offer to secure some returns for shareholders, but Freetrade has grown revenue and turned a profit for the first time.

“IG acquired deal however it comes on the expense of small traders.”

The shareholder stated he would instantly shut his Freetrade account.

Traders have been additionally sad that prices related to the transaction could be deducted from the proceeds to shareholders.

“They are rubbing salt in the wound,” stated one.

Freetrade focused a valuation of about £700m throughout fundraising talks in 2022, though these discussions did not end in a deal.

The corporate subsequently held talks with JP Morgan a couple of takeover, however these too have been aborted.

A spokesman for the corporate stated that the sale worth represented a 15-times return for Freetrade’s first traders.

Those that invested earlier than its Sequence A spherical would see a median return of two.7 instances their cash, whereas traders who backed it forward of its Sequence B spherical would see a return on common of 1.7 instances.

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