Online used car seller Vroom raises IPO price range

(Reuters) - Online used car seller Vroom Inc on Friday increased the target range for its U.S. initial public offering, looking to raise up to $375 million, as the IPO market gathers steam after the COVID-19 pandemic put several debuts on hold.

The market for new issues has rebounded with Chinese online grocery firm Dada Nexus Ltd and payments technology firm Shift4 Payments Inc (OTC: FOUR) set to start trading later in the day.

Auto retailers have been slow to embrace e-commerce, but the virus outbreak is forcing dealers to turn to digital tools to close deals without a handshake and arrange for vehicles to be picked up or delivered without requiring customers to visit stores.

Vroom plans to offer about 18.8 million shares at a price range of $18 to $20 as part of the IPO and is expecting a valuation of $2.25 billion at the top end of the range, according to a filing. (https://bit.ly/374ah6i)

The company earlier expected the offering to be priced between $15 and $17 per share.

Vroom, which filed to go public last month, has reported a more than two-fold rise in sales at its e-commerce business in the first quarter of 2020.

Net loss attributable to the company's common stockholders narrowed to nearly $41.1 million in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with $45.1 million a year earlier, while revenue jumped nearly 60%.

The company's 2019 total revenue rose about 39% to $1.19 billion.

Vroom plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "VRM".

(Reporting by Abhishek Manikandan in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)

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